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by gptgpp 4y ago
I both agree and disagree. On one hand, yeah, people dramatically overstate the capabilities of AI. I think we made a terrible divergence when we started even using the term "AI" in favor of "machine learning." On the ot
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by gptgpp 4y ago
I agree it's pretty good at generalities, doesn't shit the bed quite so much. Yet to suggest a plan that an entire team of professionals, who have been working for 8 months could not figure out? It's certainly not that good,
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Nice! This would make for a super fun sci-fi... The poors that need medicine get put in front of an LLM that gets it right most of the time, if they're lucky enough to have a common issue / symptomatic presentation. Hey, when you&
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Really? I think that the first example one of the funniest things I've read today. The second example, getting caught in a predictive loop, is also pretty funny considering it's supposed to be proving it's conscious (eg. not
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by gptgpp 4y ago
You all say it's solving these amazing complex tasks for you, but then don't provide any details. Then "naysayers" like the linked article provide a whole document with images and appendixes showing it struggles with bas
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by gptgpp 4y ago
I appreciate that, and also appreciate that absolutely nobody has the ability to understand the complete workings of a modern computer -- from the OS to the assembly, to the micro-architecture of the silicon, memory, networking, etc. Even j
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by gptgpp 4y ago
You can absolutely kill yourself writing C++ code... To my shame, I almost did when I was fucking around with a microcontroller hooked up to some fairly powerful motors. Not everyone uses code to make smartphone apps and video games, or com
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by gptgpp 4y ago
I mean... regulations are actually a lot more flexible than you're implying. I was looking to wire up some solar panels to a cottage in the countryside. Since municipal regulations didn't apply, provincial ones did, which were tha
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by gptgpp 4y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you; the thought of just "some dude" mucking about with the genetics of a virus is horrifying. And yet, computers are extremely powerful tools, arguably the most powerful we have created. And look w
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by gptgpp 4y ago
The great part is I can just get it to summarize all the summaries, love how it's flexible like that. Yeah I will be sure to read it before meeting them, would be awkward if they found out I was using it during one of the disputes, whi
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by gptgpp 4y ago
I don't really have any skin in this or strong feelings one way or another, so I'll offer one potential reason... The focus here is on race, but what about culture? In my region of the world, there are many Indian immigrants. For
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Yeah you can't use it for academic research, it's really, really terrible at it. It will even claim it can generate citations for you too, which is pretty messed up because when I tried it just fabricated them replete with faked D
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Finally, a take on chatgpt and similar LLMs I agree with! I've criticized it whenever it gets brought up as an alternative for academic research, coding, math, other more sophisticated knowledge based stuff. In my experience at least,
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Or... hear me out here... It's obviously a web of private R&D, public institutions like NASA, higher education, and yes, the military too. But acting like scientific innovation and technical progress is all, or even a majority due
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Weird... Most groundbreaking research, and the consumer tech that eventually comes from it, seems to come out of post-secondary and tech/research companies. Crazy to think it's all a front and it's actually stemming from the
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by gptgpp 4y ago
I mean, you can just as easily make the claim that researchers shift goalposts as a "self-defense" mechanism. For example... Hows that self-driving going? Got all those edge-cases ironed out yet? Oh, by next year? Wierd, that soun
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Lol, fair enough... But if you're actually interested, I'll provide some examples to show you I'm not just bullshitting. This is using canadian Amazon and canadian Digikey, since that's where I'm from. We will compa
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by gptgpp 4y ago
I would encourage you to check out electronic component suppliers like digikey.com and others. I started doing this for my components and won't be going back to Amazon. I switched after getting some counterfeit components, and others s
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Yep, I just ordered from them again for the first time in a while... Big mistake. My order was very simple, just a pack of head bands since when I go for runs I sweat way too much. After my run I took the head band off and my forehead was D
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Yes I agree, it is telling. It is similarly telling that conservative wikis have barely any articles on core topics like engineering, mathematics, philosophy, and the sciences. These intellectuals you're describing oddly don't see
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Yep that's why I said let's not even consider newspapers. Many of those have been using AI generated/content-mill/sponsored content for years and years. Also why I acknowledged journal articles can be worth less than the
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by gptgpp 4y ago
I mean... There are lots of ways to browse Wikipedia offline without having your IP recorded, absent using something simpler like a VPN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download I can understand if thi
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Maybe, but there are something like 700,000 books published on average each year, and almost 2 million scientific journal articles. Let's not even consider newspaper. Of course, some of those books will definitely be AI generated or ga
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Could you elaborate on this? If it is full of garbage a couple examples should be very easy to find. I completely agree that Wikipedia can have errors, but in topics that I am educated in it seems pretty decent and I can't remember the
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Oh, that's actually a relief that the reason they take so little time with clients before telling them to take the deal is simply because the cases are generally clear cut. Although like many things, I'll bet this can vary by regi
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by gptgpp 4y ago
I agree, but it doesn't have to be that way. I've been learning a couple new languages and frameworks lately and found it really accelerates my learning, increases enjoyment, and is good at explaining the silly mistakes that I mak
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Seems like the solution is clear then. If the judge gently corrects defense counsel and guides them towards competence, they can just do the same with AI. Then the company can use that data to improve it! Eventually it will be perfect with
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by gptgpp 4y ago
I hate this type of story, mostly because nobody has any clue as to what is actually happening, leading people to draw a divisive conclusion about either "cancel culture being out of control" or "soft liberal snowflakes actin
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by gptgpp 4y ago
True, I mean, just look at all of the examples of technologies that were projected to revolutionize computing and machine learning "..." eventually, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter Just because
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by gptgpp 4y ago
Do you have a personality disorder or something? That's not an appropriate question to ask someone, especially with what we can probably read as an insulting tone. Maybe consider therapy, honey.

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