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by ftxbro 3y ago
It's true someone was saying how gpt is so bad and will never be able to do some things but it already could do them, it turned out they were using it in polish which made it bad like a generation behind. maybe it was using some of its
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Opus Magnum (Zachtronics Alchemy Puzzle Game)(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by ftxbro 3y ago|0 comments
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Zachtronics(en.wikipedia.org)
29 points by ftxbro 3y ago|5 comments
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by ftxbro 3y ago
What if I think both things. That emergence of cognitive capabilities from 'stacking more layers' is a nuclear weapon level technology in terms of impact on the course of civilization, and also that I would never believe anything
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by ftxbro 3y ago
the media has closed the loop they are writing about each other
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "CNN has not listened to the recording, but multiple sources described it."
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "Then perhaps characterizing doing work - including often doing partial replication, independently deriving results, checking code to make sure it's both complete and consistent, etc. as "ruining your career and your adv
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by ftxbro 3y ago
still waitlisted for gpt-4 api access maybe they aren't happy with all the weird sam altman fanfic i've been generating on gpt-3.5
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> I have had reviewers and editors dig throughly into work, including code, and it has never been met with anything other than appreciation. Yes obviously that kind of free and unexpectedly diligent labor would be appreciated. > I&#x2
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by ftxbro 3y ago
its about this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Winslow_Jones
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by ftxbro 3y ago
I think this climate change analogy is interesting, but maybe not in the way they meant. The thing I think is interesting is the trajectory of the 'skeptics' or 'deniers'. 'Climate change skeptic' used to mean
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by ftxbro 3y ago
It's not like he climbed a bell tower with a megaphone to announce on his own initiative that he "feels lost over his life's work." A reporter for the BBC contacted him. > Prof Bengio admitted those concerns were taki
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "Bengio, Hinton, Altman" I know this isn't your point but one of those isn't like the others. Altman is a Musk type power seeking executive, whereas Bengio and Hinton are AI boffins.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
yes we pivoted to AI never been happier
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by ftxbro 3y ago
he wrote more about ai risk here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36042126
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "Generative AI tools and technologies, such as ChatGPT, may not be listed as authors of an ACM published Work. The use of generative AI tools and technologies to create content is permitted but must be fully disclosed in the Work.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "Former JPMorgan executive Jes Staley said he and Dimon discussed whether to keep Epstein as a client; JPMorgan says that is false" if discussing things is opening executives to liabilities then maybe the killer app of ai is
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> You heard of RLHF? The conspiracy theory isn't that every employee of OpenAI spent 8 hours every day for six months in meetings with govt agencies.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "The idea that peer review is enough to ensure that research is valid is perhaps not scaling well." As others have said, this is not what peer review has ever been for, at all. It only checks for gross omissions and violation
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "an admirable thoroughness that I should be tempted to call Teutonic if stereotyping were not so frowned upon these days." weaponized teutism
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by ftxbro 3y ago
its meaning has shifted to now mean ESG ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social,_and_cor... ) and DEI ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusi... ) for corporations
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "fundamental limitation of computers, you run into the halting problem or decidability problem when you have same fixed inputs and multiple different outputs. human's can handle multiple different meanings given the same inpu
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by ftxbro 3y ago
Twenty years ago the doomers like Yud thought that human level machine intelligence would come from some reinforcement learning agent pursuing some explicit goal. Even though back then they knew that token prediction was 'ai complete&#
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by ftxbro 3y ago
I had been putting theories in comments but they kept getting flagged or banned or downvoted to oblivion, but maybe its time has come. I'll keep it tame. If you are curious you can google connections of OpenAI board of directors, Will
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by ftxbro 3y ago
it's legal to make contradictory statements that's one of the job of a ceo and it's why they aren't usually overly literal types you know the kind i'm talking about
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by ftxbro 3y ago
yes i also can't wrap my head around how a ceo of a billion dollar company isn't sincere in his public statements
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by ftxbro 3y ago
why should I believe what someone says their plans are
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "The title seems obvious. I mean guns, and nuclear bombs and bio weapons don't kill people. People kill people. But this is something we all already know." sure > "I don't think we'll ever have a proble
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "It was a monumentally stupid idea to fire the human workers for this particular application." yes it's probably true > "No computer can hope to accurately respond in a way that isn't harmful at least some o
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by ftxbro 3y ago
so the ai is making bad research papers honestly i don't know if i like that more or less than if they were somehow doing amazing research

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