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by epups 4y ago
There is not enough written text to scale a model like ChatGPT at even 10x its current parameters, so improvements will have to come from optimizations and/or longer training (at diminishing returns).
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by epups 4y ago
I'm not sure that's relevant, since the expected behavior with Google would be to click and go to sites that are confidently asserting untruths. In a number of cases those are the top results.
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by epups 4y ago
Nixon price controls did not work, they led to stagflation and a bunch of other issues. In fact it is hard to find any example of price controls working, and a lot of evidence of the opposite.
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by epups 4y ago
> Eliminating made-up information and bias from chat-based search engines is impossible given the current state of the technology, says Mark Riedl, a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology who studies artificial intelligence. He be
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by epups 4y ago
Skinner and behaviorism has not been relevant for the analysis of human behavior since 1959.
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by epups 4y ago
>Can you describe my intended alternative with some detail? I can't. That makes two of us.
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by epups 4y ago
What if a non-thinking software prototype "speaks" to you this way? And only after you probe it to do so? I cannot understand the outrage about these types of replies. I just hope that they don't end up shutting down ChatGPT
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by epups 4y ago
I would much rather live in a world where punishment is reserved for the judicial system - where, thanks to lawyers, everyone gets a chance to a proper defense - than your intended alternative.
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by epups 4y ago
Should a doctor decide to let a murderer die, because that would be the ethical thing to do (according to their own ethics)?
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by epups 4y ago
The US enshrined in the Constitution that every single person, no matter what they did, will have the right to a legal defense. If that is the case, how would morality play a role here? Are you suggesting that we should teach lawyers to onl
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by epups 4y ago
Well, AZ could perform above Stockfish by using much simpler principles. A lot of tinkering was required to get Stockfish to where it was, and AZ pretty much rediscovered and improved on some of these refined fine-tuned principles, such as
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by epups 4y ago
Can you explain this a little bit more? Are you saying that the game actually simulates each vehicle trip individually, and then decides on a random path at every intersection?
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by epups 4y ago
I agree completely with the first part of your post. However, I think even performing these language games should definitely be considered AI. In fact, understanding natural language queries was considered for decades a much more difficult
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by epups 4y ago
I think the best explanation for what happened was globalization and its accompanying political movement in the West (neoliberalism). Productivity kept growing in the West at the cost of shifting labor-intensive jobs to China and other emer
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by epups 4y ago
I'm not sure how you measure investment in computing "as a whole", but I'm pretty sure this prediction is demonstrably wrong in any metric you choose. Imagine comparing a modern economy with that of a country that had no
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by epups 4y ago
This kit does not facilitate that kind of work. First of all, the expertise needed for the actual genetic engineering is packed here as a pre-made plasmid that has absolutely no way to be repurposed. Second, bacteria culture is something of
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by epups 4y ago
Alright but let's slow down a bit here... This kit is about plants, and it doesn't give you absolutely anything that those "few dozen smart guys" wouldn't have access to in a regular university. Meaning, if you have
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by epups 4y ago
"Scientists" came up with a safe and effective vaccine to the most important pathogen in the past century, in less than a year. Whoever took this vaccine reduced their chance of ending up dead or in the hospital significantly. The
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by epups 4y ago
The anti-vaccine movement is one of the most dangerous mind-viruses in the world. After Covid exacerbated it, we now see lower levels of vaccinations for all types of disease in the West. Millions will die or be physically impaired due to t
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by epups 4y ago
I'm quite shocked as well. Faced with a criticism of anti-vaxx movements (unequivocably wrong), people are trying to bring up "other side" mistakes as if this is a political debate.
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by epups 4y ago
Sorry, but your criticism is misguided. Hotez is talking specifically about the anti-vaccine movement, which was literally dead wrong about the safety and effectiveness of the COVID vaccines. You are equating that to (presumably) quibbles a
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by epups 4y ago
Yes, exactly, I already swallowed the poisoned pill when I installed Windows. Although arguably some ChatGPT queries are far more personal than even having access to your entire filesystem.
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by epups 4y ago
This is a potentially momentous occasion here. Microsoft is betting hard that they can mount a challenge to Google, and I think ChatGPT can credibly attempt that. The answer from Google so far is weak. The thought that Bing may actually ove
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by epups 4y ago
Not currently working for me (Germany, Windows).
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by epups 4y ago
May I ask why? It seems to me that, facing a fast-changing world as described in the article, you would be best served perfecting a skill such as programming to navigate it.
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by epups 4y ago
Because if productivity can be achieved with less people, and even intellectual work is not protected from machines, people will become redundant for the creation of economic value.
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by epups 4y ago
I would rather be a cog that produces economic value, and therefore is entitled to part of it, than literally useless, because then my bargaining position is going to be quite limited. My freedom is larger in the former scenario in fact.
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by epups 4y ago
I actually like the point you tried to develop in this thread, because I feel most people don't question their assumptions often enough. However, you are clearly reducing complex phenomena to a single cause, incorrectly so in my opinio
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by epups 4y ago
Thank you for the clarification. I understand where you (and the law) are coming from, but when it comes to software it is hard to say what are "unrealistically low prices". Slack and Zoom also have free tiers, so how is it unreal
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by epups 4y ago
Can you elaborate on this point a bit? It seems to me that you are saying Microsoft should not be allowed to release their own version of Slack and Zoom for free. I don't see the argument for that, especially since Microsoft itself has

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