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3mo ago
Does anyone know how fresh the business data is? like opening, closure, phone, address of businesses? i think one thing that's going for google is the network effects and what it's able to do.
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3mo ago
oh boy! the lack of critical thinking here is staggering. >>And my criticism is that if you observe Claude code with opus 4.8 working through an entirely novel problem that nobody has ever worked on before and which certainly wasn’t i
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>>The contention that there is no grounding because the training data is linguistic and thus can only reference a world model is disproven in "This sentence has five words"- there's real, grounded information about what
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3mo ago
not sure your criticism makes sense though - they did this pre chatgpt. they are talking about the language models of that time. they did not make predictions about the future.
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3mo ago
I paid a bit of attention to this paper and the phrase 'stochastic parrots' when it came out and i thought this was worth saying and doing at that time. their suggestions about financial and environmental costs are worth studying,
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3mo ago
https://archive.is/ERNLk
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Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India
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This is very very nice. when you are reading this, just keep this in the back of your mind - inside a cell- things are floating around constantly at a very high speed. those things do not have any crisp shape or boundary. so how do we tell
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3mo ago
>>the fact you didn't know about the existing private open source offline mapping solution also rang an alarm in me why? that's a bit of an overreaction from your alarm bells honestly. i didn't know about organic maps b
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>>if you run stock iOS or Android with the Google services, I believe you are already screwed anyway: I wouldn't trust them not to constantly leak stuff about you in the background even if you don't actively use the GPS, at
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3mo ago
This is correct but if the phone's internet is off, there is no way for BSSID look up but maps might collect this in the background for telemetry and send it to the server once the internet is turned back on.
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3mo ago
You are largely correct about everyday location privacy but I was thinking more in the adversarial direction (read military/ GPS denied zones) when I started this work. There have been news about GPS being denied/spoofed over euro
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3mo ago
This is exciting!! I was not aware of organic maps until today. I use offline maps in google maps also. It's not fully private if it requires GPS connection though!! That's why I have been working on https://github.com&
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3mo ago
>>It's funny if you look at the paper https://isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jev ... how different it is from the article i can sense the lack of capacity for reasoning in your comment.
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3mo ago
>>That’s an AI tell do you have any other explanation other than tells? - maybe your tarot cards might have better explanation.
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Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii
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>>The article is also heavily ai generated can you please share your methodology for detecting ai please?
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3mo ago
c'mon you guys, chill. this is not a vaccine.
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3mo ago
Well, false positives must anyway be zero for a product which is built around detecting AI. let me explain - the value proposition of this product is that we detect AI. Its not we don't call human writing AI generated. The latter is im
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https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/ai_detector_fails/blob/main/... the text in above is all ai generated. i uploaded a picture of two kittens to gemini and asked it to guess their age. then asked gemini to
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4mo ago
>>To my knowledge, pangram has a very low false positive rate approaching zero. (False negative is another matter.) I’m not sure that’s what you want to use as the analogy here? 'To my knowledge' - okay. In my experience, th
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4mo ago
For non-chess players - imagine if Geoffrey hinton used AI detectors (GPT zero, pangram etc) to accuse and punish people of using AI in their writing and bad mouth them publicly. That's what kramnik (former world chess champion) did to
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>>That doesn't mean anything produced by those tools is public domain They can't produce anything on their own. They have to be prompted which is initiated by humans at this point, so the patents can be owned by the initiato
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4mo ago
wow thanks for pointing this out.
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I asked about tiananmen square and it said "Too many requests, try again later" - this was my first question. I understand this is one data point but still ;/
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this seems a bit extreme. pangram does not work. i have tricked it multiple times. i don't get how people are still trusting these systems.
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This is a ridiculous argument that just because someone still remembers something means it was a good advertising strategy. This is partly why advertising sucks. The correct metric in this case would be did the user actually go on the date
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Was it 2016 when Geoff hinton said that radiology was a dead career? Well, we now have the best model of our time (trillions of $$$ of investments) telling us something completely different(and wrong) from a human expert. I would really lik
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this reminded me of my childhood.
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4mo ago
This will be a thing of the past sooner than you expect.
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