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geraneum
3y ago
This reminded me of "Two Minute Papers" YouTube channel where in most of the videos he always, "Two papers down the line and...". I think ML/AI is the main topic of his videos. Interesting stuff.
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3y ago
> Because you say so? Chill my friend, no need to get personal. We are talking about ideas. It’s OK to disagree. I am simply dismissing your initial claim. This usually happens when you present a scientific argument based on personal bel
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3y ago
That’s actually correct but an overfitted definition for learning. It holds certain hidden assumptions (i.e physical grounding) of the learner being human which makes it inapplicable to an LLM. As in a self driving car which passes a drivin
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3y ago
Interestingly, the example provided is not necessarily indicative of the ability to infer the actual physical transfer of power. It’s possible that the terms “After Elisabeth, Charles will be king” are accompanied with “Elisabeth” and “Die”
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3y ago
> In context learning is wonderful because it means you can "train" a LLM at run time The “learning” in “In context learning” is not the same concept as learning during the network “training”. The former is loosely named and do
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3y ago
> With AI, this can be automated. This bit here is what makes a huge difference. It’s very important to note that AI is all of this in scale. Corporations can now do all of this en mass. It will cheaper too, therefore it lowers the barri
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4y ago
> People had no reason to believe that today's models would exist. People had no reason to believe one day we would finally understand what causes the thunder. We finally did, and it is not made by Zeus.
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4y ago
Not only for AI, but for any other topic, you can reduce the noise while focusing on more interesting content within the same criteria. I am interested about AI/GPT (already building software using it and following their development) b
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4y ago
If only there was a way to follow the money, oh wait…!
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4y ago
Same could be said when iPhone came out. Now look where Android is. The fact that something happened to others means nothing. Could go either way. edit: typo
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4y ago
> the idea that you can't get a very good statistical approximation to knowing and reasoning via a computer seem naively prone anthropocentrism. I don't think this is being questioned in general right now, but rather the claim
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4y ago
This reminds me of: “People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.” Richard J. Needham
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4y ago
> So not an entire miss, but not great either. If you want results, then you can also roll a die and the outcome won’t be an entire miss either.
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4y ago
While we’re at it, maybe Minis Forum could be a good alternative, price wise. I am thinking about getting one of their devices suitable for home lab. P.S not affiliated, just curious. https://www.minisforum.com/
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4y ago
I tend to believe that the number of people working with machine instructions might have even increased! We have much more of the tech that I mentioned nowadays compared to 90s. Also a lot of other industries have entered digital age and in
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4y ago
> but without much value in the broader tech industry. Not talking about AI; but if you want to work on compilers, linux kernel, game engine optimization, GPU optimized code and many many other things than web development you need to be
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4y ago
I’m afraid what’s happening here is what’s called “confirmation bias”. Here [1] it’s actually the author who rules that out himself based on prior knowledge and the fact that the situation didn’t get better after the first diagnosis and sub
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4y ago
That’s not the case. After going to the first vet, you can search for causes of anemia in dogs without uploading test results or giving any further details and the first hit is as good as GPT’s. I have seen some good use cases for GPT but t
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4y ago
When I search “different causes of anemia in dogs” in either Kagi or Google (with Ad-Block), the first response for me gives the same information That GPT-4 does.
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4y ago
I think if we have the "final software" there won't be a need for a website to sell you products or another for renting a place for your vacation or the one that processes your payments. All is done in one software with one i
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4y ago
It was actually a technical feedback.
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4y ago
My boss (head of engineering) loves ChatGPT and he uses it more and more in work. Recently he just wrote an crucial feedback after one of our meetings and the moment I started reading, it was obvious it's ChatGPT (confirmed by ZeroGPT
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4y ago
This thread reminds me of that Big Bang Theory episode with the Super Man argument. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R5w4Qz6pVk I don't want to imply anything, just a moment of having fun. edit: wording
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4y ago
Beyond explaining what the author meant, and also the hype and hypotheticals which are rampant, this is a valid concern which I also share personally. This is more imminent than “AI overlords ruling us” and I am afraid the motivation behind
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4y ago
It's not about the semantics of the sentence he said. This is obvious. He is pointing out a difference in nature of the attributes/properties of a human and a human creation. Not about something being more or less dangerous. He is
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4y ago
To be fair, he brings up an interesting analogy. From the article right after he says this, he follows with > It’s like saying a car can go faster than a human runner. Of course it can, and yet we don’t say that the car has become a bett
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4y ago
That won't happen only using text. Language does not capture the full spectrum of thought which is what is at work in case of an expert. Companies training their custom models or increasing the model size, etc. won't change this f
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4y ago
This applies to managers and many founders too. I imagine it's gonna affect the startup scene more than people expect and the number of current model of startups where you build a custom software solution for a problem may also fall. I
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4y ago
That's the main idea behind developing such systems. It's telling execs: Hey, look, you are paying a lot of money to those pesky workers (i.e. developers) and we like that number. Give us a cut and we save you a lot of money. This
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4y ago
Could be. That means feedinng it the data from NICE in a prompt rather than relying on the data being in training set. That will intuitively increase the reliability of the answer (I have to look into it a bit more). On one hand if you alre
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