grey-area

7 ms·

61.
by grey-area 1mo ago
The first social networks were actually social (ie relating to friends), algos came later, to better exploit attention for ads. When twitter changed its feeds it had to force people into the new style feed by giving them a choice but wip
62.
by grey-area 1mo ago
> Also, my point is neither fatal nor about mistake[sic]. Orwell’s examples still demonstrate his claims in a relative sense, all within the context of the essay. However, when you pull them out of the context and put them out in the wil
63.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Lack of taste, intent and intelligence. This is ok in domains if you can train against known good answers and make sure the machine generates conforming text most of the time. It falls apart in fuzzier domains where training is much harder
64.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Read some Orwell: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
65.
by grey-area 1mo ago
So this justifies the illegal action of hacking and defacing other servers on the internet, because they were ‘just testing in real world conditions’ using those servers? If you want to argue they should test on the internet on others peopl
66.
by grey-area 1mo ago
I’m sure many thought the same about the United States of America when it was founded.
67.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Yes this is a really interesting point. Should your trust OpenAI with your business data? Since they can’t seem to control their own experimental bots and allow them to hack other sites and vandalise them while exposing internal data, the a
68.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Sure they could have done it, but the evidence doesn’t point to that and this kind of unfounded speculation is damaging and unhelpful.
69.
by grey-area 1mo ago
I’m not asking for proof of absence or denying they could be using stenography, just asking for people to stick to the facts instead of indulging in fantasies of the machine singularity. It’s neither useful nor informative. If bots/a
70.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Oh I see. Well these do seem like end times for US democracy, very similar to the fall of Rome. So yes the problems are broader than Trump and probably won’t end with him, but he is the most dangerous character so far and I’m entirely unsur
71.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Yes I do. Happy to accept assertions like this grounded in proof - it would be an interesting development. All the orgasmic descriptions of the coming machine rapture seem more like fantasies than anything grounded, not really interested in
72.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Or it may be gibberish. We do know these machines often generate things which don't make sense, even when given training and strict guidelines in that domain. I'm inclined to go with gibberish until shown otherwise, but would be i
73.
by grey-area 1mo ago
You’re not sure that Trump is unstable?
74.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Are they encrypting data? That would look very different from the snippets I’ve seen.
75.
by grey-area 1mo ago
My understanding is generated words are determined first by the corpus (apparently the whole internet - eek!), then by training in certain areas, then influenced a little by the final context. Would welcome correction but it does seem to in
76.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Yes, it wouldn’t surprise me to hear that they’re not even supervising these processes with humans any more. Perhaps there are layers of GAI ‘supervising’ these agents and reporting back to the humans. Rushed, disorganised pushes for metric
77.
by grey-area 1mo ago
The end of hegemony isn’t usually immediately followed by the appointment of a new leader, usually it means fragmented power and war. Yes, China is a likely eventual successor and in some parts is the world has replaced the US in being the
78.
by grey-area 1mo ago
This is correct for areas where they have been intensively trained to be right, but the training covers a tiny slice of the space of text the LLM must produce and is just adjusting the weights a little. The corpus does still weigh heavily.
79.
by grey-area 1mo ago
What sidechannel evades an airgap? You expect them to start hacking ham radio and take over the world that way? Or maybe they’ll use blinkenlights to communicate with non-isolated instances? An airgap would certainly be a good place to sta
80.
by grey-area 1mo ago
The most recent claim of AGI is from Greg ‘what will take me to $1B’ Brockman. Now worth $30B on the back of stunts like this. How disappointing. While I think incompetence more likely than conspiracy for these particular events, they will
81.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Let them play on a fake isolated network if you want. Letting them play on the open internet like this is irresponsible and stupid.
82.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Very irresponsible behaviour on the part of OpenAI. How will they make this right? Unlike some others here I don’t see this as a sign of dangerous breakaway intelligence (hacking old forum software is an internet tradition, and most of the
83.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Well it certainly is 1m long now, once AI scrapers access this page. Or perhaps it was 3 meters and had 1000 feet. With our source of advice being an amalgam of all the internet (including posts like this), how can we trust information like
84.
by grey-area 1mo ago
The end of the US hegemony and the unstable regime in the US makes decoupling the best strategy.
85.
by grey-area 1mo ago
I don’t use env variables for this and many other reasons. They seem like a spectacularly bad idea for config, as the op noted. I’m talking about altering a config which you control - adding to a config is pretty risk free if it is your pro
86.
by grey-area 1mo ago
If you read the objections you’ll see they are about content (or lack of it) not the producer of the content. Perhaps you are unable to tell the difference, but for others reading this sort of ersatz thought is like a boot stamping on a hum
87.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Without context you have no idea what it means. Perhaps it signifies nothing?
88.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Sometimes it just doesn’t make any sense. Sometimes it generates grammatically correct nonsense.
89.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Training is far more important than user prompts
90.
by grey-area 1mo ago
Yes, it appears so, as you can see from your downvotes and the simplistic cheerleading further up this thread.

More ›