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by gryfft 3y ago
I remember showing this to a roommate's mom over a decade ago. She wondered aloud if it was like The Emperor's New Clothes or if we simply didn't understand music well enough to know why we shouldn't enjoy this. I still
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by gryfft 3y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1770870738863415500.html I really do think we've reached the interesting part of human history, so to speak. When I asked Santa for a robot for Christmas as the very first thing
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by gryfft 3y ago
> it's unclear whether such a system is intelligent, or merely a highly generalized mimic. This seems to ignore the entire point of the Turing Test.
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by gryfft 3y ago
> With FUSIONL AI you will learn anything in a smart and minimalistic way ever. Maybe whoever wrote this copy can use Fusionl AI to brush up on English.
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by gryfft 3y ago
> [W]hile I’d like to recommend SparkToro-style fundraising to anyone who wants to build a profitable, long-lasting business > a grow-fast-or-die-trying one, that option is only on the table if you’ve got a network of rich colleagues
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by gryfft 3y ago
I think this is some napkin math trying to show how deep into π we could theoretically get if the literal entirety of the known universe was given over to recording it?
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by gryfft 3y ago
At this point I'm feeling pretty good about my assessment that k8s' major utility has been for organizations that felt their engineering departments were too comfortable, organized and productive and needed to distract the nuts-an
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by gryfft 3y ago
This is hog wild. I guess it was inevitable given Unicode's design, but there's still󠁄󠁥󠁥󠁰󠁬󠁹󠀠󠁣󠁵󠁲󠁩󠁯󠁵󠁳󠀠󠁨󠁯󠁷󠀠󠁴󠁨󠁩󠁳󠀠󠁷󠁩󠁬󠁬󠀠󠁢󠁥󠀠󠁵󠁳󠁥󠁤 something skin-crawlingly bizarre to the idea that any innocuous text can contain …
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by gryfft 3y ago
Probably since they don't meet the guidelines [1]. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by gryfft 3y ago
A word is coming to mind. A word that means, "canned meat product." A word that rhymes with "blam." Flagged to hell and back.
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by gryfft 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function I don't know exactly what kind of joke or confusion this is, but I've flagged the submission and include this helpful wikipedia article which discusses the releva
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by gryfft 3y ago
Clickbait headline. People have a few mildly different emotions bubble up from seeing the remaining years of their lives slide off their digital faces before their eyes. When something is divisive , it polarizes and fosters dissent. It cre
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by gryfft 3y ago
Looks like vaporware AFAICT but it's fun to imagine. I do wonder if we're in for a breakthrough like this soon-- if deep learning models will precipitate an improved understanding of the physical mechanisms of consciousness (and u
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by gryfft 3y ago
[2012] Also, relevant xkcd [1]. 1. https://xkcd.com/2855/
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by gryfft 3y ago
[2017]
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by gryfft 3y ago
Damn, this looks phenomenal. I've been wanting to do a deep dive like this for a while-- the 3D model is a spectacular pedagogic device.
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by gryfft 3y ago
Don't say that too loud or somebody will show up and say we should call it "tab."
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by gryfft 3y ago
The Turing test can be thought of as having strong and weak versions. The strong Turing test establishes a ceiling past which, philosophically speaking, a candidate is indistinguishable from a person. To pass the strong Turing test, you nee
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by gryfft 3y ago
I know this probably isn't what you want to hear, but I do really, really recommend talking to a therapist about depression. The feelings you describe make a lot of sense given your experiences, but there may be ways to recapture some
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by gryfft 3y ago
I thought "Surely this can't be real?" From a little research, it seems it is. Seems like a destined-to-be-shortlived product. It only takes a few broken toddler necks.
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by gryfft 3y ago
If it's not the battery, you could check the power supply, BIOS, or operating system settings that might be the root of the problem. However, you'll have better luck if you read and research the errors the computer gives you. Sayi
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by gryfft 3y ago
> A majority of philosophers accept (or lean toward accepting) consciousness in adult humans (95.15 per cent), I laughed aloud. > The Declaration points to five consciousness markers that are the results of scientific research: homolo
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by gryfft 3y ago
> Take capitalism out of it, do we really want to boil down intelligence to a calculation of expected economic value? It's a lovely sentiment, but do you expect e.g. universities to start handing out degrees on the basis of human di
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by gryfft 3y ago
I'm as left leaning as HN commenters get, I think, and in terms of quacking like a duck, "surpassing humans in most economically valuable tasks" is 100% the meaningful Turing test in a capitalist society.
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by gryfft 3y ago
Throwing in probabilistic latency and some occasional distortion and I think the fact that it almost works well enough some or most of the time makes it _worse_: instead of just getting used to a certain base rate of distortion like one mig
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by gryfft 3y ago
It looks like Invicti has done some work in this space [1]. I'm sure you've seen this pretty good Stack Exchange discussion on the topic [2, 3]. As you say, the boutique shops aren't going to be relying on automated scans, th
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by gryfft 3y ago
At this point the thing holding ChatGPT back from universally-accepted "AGI" label is its few remaining sub-human skillsets, like forgetting things from too many tokens ago that a human would not forget. My prediction is that over
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by gryfft 3y ago
"Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?" --Khrushchev, satirically inquiring regarding the implausible number of labor-saving devices exhibited on the American side of the Kitchen Debate[1]
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by gryfft 3y ago
I sympathize deeply with this take. The last few years have felt like a slow awakening from the delusion that pursuing technology in a fun and playful way could create a positive long term impact in my life, the lives of my loved ones, or
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by gryfft 3y ago
It's not just you. Most of the visible changes Google has made to its interfaces in the past few years have been horrific regressions. maps.google.com and google.com/maps got squished into each other and features are disappearing

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