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by geraneum 4y ago
Yes, for humans! I don't want my car to murder me if it "thinks" I'm going to scrap it.
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by geraneum 4y ago
> ChatGPT is telling us something about language or thought There is a leap from language to thought and Wolfram talks about it in more detail in the article in the section named “Surely a Network That’s Big Enough Can Do Anything!” I en
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Yes, it actually sometimes gives C and also sometimes B and sometimes makes up E. That's how probability works, and that's not helpful when you want to look up an occurrence of an event in physical space (Quantum mechanics aside :
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If you want to research what happened in Chernobyl from an experts point of view, you should look into sources with scientific credibility and proof (based on chemistry, math and physics). ChatGPT can, in your example, play the role of a wr
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by geraneum 4y ago
First thing that came to my mind was what is considered quality code. Here is an excerpt on how they filtered high quality git repos from Github based on number of stars: > However, one can assume that repositories which are of inter
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> … but never any data to substantiate the claim There is! https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627 From the paper: > Based on this evidence, we argue that (1) contemporary LLMs should be taken seriously as models of
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Employee and employer are not on equal footing. This is better understood among the workers in other industries. The current situation with supply and demand of CS workers has led some to believe that this trend will never die. It may not s
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> If the chatbot built around the docs outputs garbage, that is a telltale sign that the documentation was garbage to start with. That’s not how the chat bot works. This particular chat bot can be trained on a bunch of documents and stil
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> I would argue that AI-based tools could prevent such HUMAN mistakes. Still you won’t find a useful/sober lawyer who would argue a case in front of a judge based on a made up precedent which never existed in reality. Making a mista
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Some of the problems with ChatGPT are not mere “gotcha”s but rather problems inherent to how LLMs work and their philosophy. The biggest issue I’ve seen some other scientists [1] who don’t have a stake in OpenAI bring up is that: “LLMs make
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by geraneum 4y ago
This is real and a serious threat. Both the company I work in and I (personal account) have been targeted with this specific method. I got tens of random notification pop-ups on my phone in different days and I almost approved it once. It d
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Sure that could happen. Nothing against that. But I am not fully confident. As a counter example, we have ORMs. They bring value but I have seen enough devs who are too reliant on it and don’t develop a good understanding of how the underly
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Cupcakes and clouds feel them same. Stop excluding them!
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> … could impact your brain function negatively. Brain function being negatively impacted is not scary on its own and not necessarily permanent. I didn’t mean to scare you. It’s likely you are confusing the above phrase with “your brain
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by geraneum 4y ago
I didn’t mean just any negative impact like getting tired from context switching or feeling exhausted because the workload is high. What I meant was: Will you lose it if you don’t use it? Maybe you won’t, I am not certain. Or maybe you will
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by geraneum 4y ago
There is research [1] that suggests using GPS navigation could impact your brain function negatively. I wonder how this code generation “assistant” will impact the coding skills of its users in long term. As for the LLMs, stochastic parroti
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by geraneum 4y ago
Frohe Weihnachten from Germany!
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> If you choose to get the vaccine, the probability is 1 Curiously, probability of what specifically is 1 in that case? I am assuming by 1 you mean 100%, right?
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I don’t know about you but when I go to our local supermarket and use cash to buy a beer, the person behind the register kinda sees me and recognizes what I picked. They even happen to know my name as they live in the neighborhood. Do you c
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by geraneum 4y ago
> Can I use AppleTV+ without them tracking what programs I'm watching? Can I buy something from my local supermarket without them knowing what I bought? Can I create an EC2 instance on AWS without Amazon knowing who created the inst
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by geraneum 4y ago
The posts here don’t have to be neutral! There are a lot of blog posts, opinion pieces and opinionated comments. That’s actually good.
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It's natural selection and perhaps it's more likely that they will go extinct in such a scenario.
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by geraneum 4y ago
I have a Macbook Pro 2015 and the latest OS it supports officially is Monterey. The new Ventura (2022) is not supported anymore. I consider my device to have had software support for about at least seven years so far and until when they sto
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by geraneum 4y ago
The worse case is majority rights being subject to the whims and abuses of a minority. Protecting minorities shouldn’t mean that this is ok! P.S. minorities here could mean anything i.e the mega rich, the “legal” cartels, etc.
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There are even more creative and common ways to make someone reveal their password, unbeknownst to them. Just good old phishing! Actually that’s demonstrably more probable than your face or thumb print getting stolen. edit: typo
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In reality, when using Docker, Dev and Prod are almost never the same. We usually install different packages in Dev image i.e. debuggers or linters, we try to optimize the heck out of the Prod image, thus using a different build of the base
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> Rust is arguably less safe in that aspect than C, due to the general Rust practice of panicking upon unexpected conditions For clarification, I responded to this in particular because "safety" is being conflated with "pa
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by geraneum 4y ago
> Rust is arguably less safe in that aspect than C, due to the general Rust practice of panicking upon unexpected conditions For context, this is OP's sentence that I responded to in particular. Ensuring safety [1] is way less trivi
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We cannot ensure that an arbitrary program halts by statically analyzing it. And it doesn’t have anything to do with the language of choice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
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> Instead of staying and pursuing collective change they take care of themselves and leave. Extending this to majority of Iranian women/men is wrong, as evidenced by what is happening in Iran right now. Most of them are in Iran, in

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