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by jeffmcmahan 9y ago
"Not really, only the basis of the entire business."
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Noam is on the short list of the most intellectually impactful human beings of the period since Descartes: Newton, Darwin, Smith, maybe Ricardo, Marx, maybe Frege or Russell, Einstein, Turing, Keynes, Chomsky, and a scant few more. His poli
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by jeffmcmahan 9y ago
Yes, this is typical AI weenie optimism. "We can handle many of the easiest cases, so in X years we will be able to do all the really hard things that we haven't even thought of yet!" No.
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I like the show. With that said, I have a bachelor's degree in philosophy, and the show (i.e., the character Chidi) mentions philosophers and concisely recounts their views in broad strokes, but I can't recall an instance where
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by jeffmcmahan 9y ago
How does it compare to buble in terms of speed? (And yes, I realize buble does not support a variety of es2016 features).
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Good God - it's a note taking app that installs sqlite, sharp, and more than 300 other things... well into the millions of lines of code.
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by jeffmcmahan 9y ago
This is a tech-ignorant political blogger with a serious case of AI weenie-ism.
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It hung at the boot screen for me, which really took me back.
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And all God's people said: amen.
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"The distinction between us (humans) and them (the machines) will become almost imperceptible." ... Absolutely nothing in the text substantiates any of the very strong claims.
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by jeffmcmahan 10y ago
"AI is now the technology shaping our world more than ever before." This, the first sentence of the article, does not express a thought. Read it carefully. It's on a par with "More people have been to Russia than I have.
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by jeffmcmahan 10y ago
Radiotopia would be the place to begin. Just give each show a try, and you've sampled the best available.
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I have a bachelor's degree in philosophy and linguistics from an elite university. My parents owned and auto parts store in a small town, which was next door to my grandparents' bakery. Based on my experience, it seems this guys&#
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by jeffmcmahan 10y ago
BRAAAM is first heard in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (8 years before Inception): https://youtu.be/3ME5jhsgmB4?t=53 (two in a row spot-on BRAAMs)
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His arguments are not tight, but the talk is cathartic for those of us who see "AI weenies" for what they are.
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by jeffmcmahan 10y ago
If you're going to check every argument's type and throw on failure, either use a statically typed language or adopt a concise way of type checking. Many of the examples have big groups of assert() calls at the top. Gross.
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by jeffmcmahan 10y ago
>> I guess "the" is like "distinct" in sql That's original Russellian theory, in a nutshell ( http://www.uvm.edu/~lderosse/courses/lang/Russell(1905).pdf ). None of its many varia
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>> it's amazing they can do language at all. But research on that is just starting. Give it time. Not so. Academic work in natural language processing has been very active for decades. Check out NL SOAR, which is an awesome attem
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There's a clear difference between "bring me an apple" and "bring me the apple". The latter requires that there is either only one apple available, or requires some special contextual knowledge to comply with.
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It's back now!
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Here's the kind of claim I mean to attack in the polemic: "The algorithm's understanding of language 'has moved from a 2-year-old infant to something close to an 8 or 10-year-old child,' said Amit Singhal, a Google
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by jeffmcmahan 10y ago
I hear you. I would say that we are not omniscient, yet we know which footstool is intended in the context, and without any conscious effort. Human-like general intelligence is marvelous. And it's well out of reach, and will remain so.
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Yes, the trouble is that the work on performative acts (speech acts) only goes so deep, and then everything turns to confusion and ad hoc rationalizations presented like theories (I have a couple in mind). There'll be no means of imple
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The term refers to work on syntax (or phonology) that does not extend into semantics. So, basically anything Chomsky writes is on narrow syntax, whereas anything (say) Irene Heim or Barbara Partee writes is concerned with a broader notion o
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AI is always less impressive than is claimed(jeffmcmahan.info)
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