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by dougb5 3y ago
ChatGPT follows the naming convention established by InstructGPT and WebGPT -- it's a model fine-tuned on human preferences for good chat outcomes. The name doesn't roll off the tongue, but then, neither does "Airbnb" a
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by dougb5 3y ago
As the article acknowledges, the training data that goes into the chatbots that people actually use in 2023 -- ChatGPT (both the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 flavors) -- are probably very different from c4, which was released 4 years ago. GPT-4&#x2
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by dougb5 4y ago
I love that the citation to GPT-4 is a Rickroll :)
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Yael Tauman Kalai Honored with ACM Prize in Computing(awards.acm.org)
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by dougb5 4y ago
I run a word-search API and I now regularly get emails from frustrated users who complain that it doesn't work the way ChatGPT tells them it works. For example, today someone asked me why a certain request fails, and it turned out to
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Bengio response to the open letter on slowing down AI development(yoshuabengio.org)
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by dougb5 4y ago
"ChatGPT’s intercoder agreement exceeds that of both crowd-workers and trained annotators for all tasks." -- wait, what? However good ChatGPT is at approximating trained annotators for these Twitter tasks, it's an algorithm,
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by dougb5 4y ago
Given that they use all the labor of the Internet without attribution, we should assume that they will use every additional drop of data we give to them for their own ends.
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by dougb5 4y ago
“There’s nothing for these people to do—it’s all fake work. Now that’s being exposed, what do these people actually do, they go to meetings.” Wait, what do VCs like him do with their time? Or are those meetings somehow more legitimate?
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by dougb5 4y ago
I think the list-of-links Web search paradigm has plenty of time left, for at least three reasons: (1) A good chunk of a typical user's needs are to do something, not to find an answer to a question; (2) Google is lightning fast comp
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Conspiracy Theories Have a New Best Friend(theatlantic.com)
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Feedback Map: View the free-form responses to Google Forms surveys(feedbackmap.org)
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ChatGPT Isn’t the Only Way to Use AI in Education(wired.com)
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by dougb5 4y ago
I've known several people in your employer's situation -- they're not so rare -- and it seems like what they want more than anything, after having made their zillions, is social validation that they didn't just get lucky
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by dougb5 4y ago
And the article was written before Jan 17 was even finished (at least, in Pacific time, where Twitter is headquartered), so the estimate from the manager was probably based on a smaller time period.
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Our 2022 Waterloo co-op term: In which organising words is a labour of love(blog.datamuse.com)
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by dougb5 4y ago
As a commenter in that thread suggested ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33986124 ), slow degradation of the value of using Twitter is a more likely outcome than a sudden "collapse". This is not contradicted
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by dougb5 4y ago
Maybe he sees it as more profitable to play to his base and get higher market share there, than to try to unify and get a lower overall market share? Certainly a lot of politicians use this strategy.
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by dougb5 4y ago
Too many people think of an HOA fee as throwing away money, but I think it's a net savings in a small and well-run HOA (and these do exist!). The money all goes to the upkeep of the building or complex with minimal overhead, so none o
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by dougb5 4y ago
This year some of my RIs became useless to me with a chunk of the 3-year term remaining, due to the EC2-Classic shutdown. (The instance types were a couple of generations old, and no longer available in the same availability zones in the VP
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by dougb5 4y ago
Not always! He seemed genuinely motivated to help society back in the Mosaic era.
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by dougb5 4y ago
A lot of these "Falsehoods programmers believe about time" apply to making a timer: https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...
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by dougb5 4y ago
Google spent nearly 2000 times that, and a great deal of its own value to the world is from indexing Wikipedia.
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by dougb5 4y ago
"According to our analysis, web3 paid out $174,000 per creator, while Meta paid out $0.10 per user, Spotify paid out $636 per artist, and YouTube paid out $2.47 per channel. Web3 is tiny but mighty." If you like me are wondering w
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by dougb5 5y ago
You scared me. He is very much still alive. (Or do you know something I don't?)
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by dougb5 5y ago
Is Martin Agency really dissimilar from the agencies that make other superbowl ads? What is a "traditional ad agency" anymore, even? And what's with the weaselly "I'd be remiss"? At this point, many hours
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by dougb5 5y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER(S) - REMOTE Datamuse makes dictionary websites, APIs, and brainstorming tools. In 2022 we're looking for a few curious and self-motivated freelance developers with experience in natural language processing pipelines
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by dougb5 5y ago
Link to study PDF: https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/appi.ajp.20...
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25 Years of RhymeZone and OneLook: What we're musing on lately(blog.datamuse.com)
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OneLook Thesaurus(onelook.com)
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