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by jmmcd 2y ago
Yes indeed. This is because it's very disconcerting to see yourself non-mirrored.
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by jmmcd 2y ago
> "During videoconferencing, of course, you know how you look, since you can see yourself too," Walter-Terrill noted. "But on a call with dozens of people, you may be the only one who doesn't know how you sound to eve
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by jmmcd 2y ago
> The Athena spacecraft was not exactly flying blind as it approached the lunar surface one week ago. The software on board did a credible job of recognizing nearby craters, even with elongated shadows over the terrain. However, the land
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by jmmcd 2y ago
I've said several times that according to your definition, humans do not reason. You haven't really responded to that and I guess you're not going to. I can't quite parse your overall position, ie specifically, as I alre
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by jmmcd 2y ago
> What some people do is «not reasoning», for lack of training, or for lack of resources (e.g. time - Herbert Simon's "satisficing"), or for lack of ability. According to your definition of reasoning, which involves surel
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by jmmcd 2y ago
I can't reply to your new post below, I guess the thread is too deep. But you've bit the bullet and stated that what humans do is not reasoning, I think. You didn't like "what colour is the sky" (without looking), o
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by jmmcd 2y ago
> Reasoning properly is at least operating through processes that output correct results. Human "reasoning" (ie speech or self-talk that sounds a bit like reasoning) often outputs correct results. Does "often" fit the
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by jmmcd 2y ago
> Without proper reasoning you can get some "heuristic" Right, but the question is whether this is good enough. And what counts as "proper". A lot of what we call proper reasoning is still quite informal, and even mat
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by jmmcd 2y ago
> since the issue is general I'm not sure what that means specifically. I don't agree overall. Only certain types of problems encountered by LLMs map cleanly to well-understood problems where existing solvers are perfect.
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by jmmcd 2y ago
These puzzles probably have more in common with "Zebra puzzles" (eg https://www.zebrapuzzles.com/ ) than Cluedo (USA Clue) itself. I've been doing some one-off experiments with Zebra puzzles recently. All the
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by jmmcd 2y ago
Nonsense, you don't know what you're talking about.
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by jmmcd 2y ago
In my recent programming exam (in an MSc in AI), I asked students to reflect on how generative AI has changed their coding. Almost all remarked that it's a great time-saver, but it makes them lazy and worse at coding. And yes indeed, t
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by jmmcd 2y ago
> "being one of those bicycle people" What really amazes me is motorists' dislike of cyclists (common here in Ireland, also). If that cyclist you see wasn't cycling, they'd be in a car in front of you, and your t
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by jmmcd 2y ago
This is a good idea! The answer to my knowledge is no-one does this, we just the simplest, stupidest, possible method, which is to concatenate all the text in the world. That is during training, of course. At runtime, there is the system pr
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by jmmcd 2y ago
Well, yes, I deserved that reply! And yes the code is printing True. It's not that I disbelieved you... but something is wrong here. Investigation below, thanks to Claude.ai for walking me through it! In [10]: o1[0, :, :3] Ou
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by jmmcd 2y ago
But u/imjonse's reasoning seems right. I haven't run either version of the code, but when reading it I expected that to be False. The output is still a list with an order. the dog chased the cat: position 1 in the output is a
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by jmmcd 2y ago
Certainly, it's an exaggeration / simplification. I don't feel it is really a dishonest one, in context [*]. It feels weird for me to "defend" him here, because in general Altman is a stupendous, egregious, world-le
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by jmmcd 2y ago
Yes, he's handwaving in this general area, but no, he's not really relying on the UAT. If you talked to most NN people 2 decades ago and asked about this, they might well answer in terms of the UAT. But nowadays, most people, incl
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by jmmcd 2y ago
Good news doesn't have to mean overwhelming good news. Directionally, it is clearly good, not bad, and not nothing.
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by jmmcd 2y ago
This was really excellent - for many of us, code helps to make mechanisms concrete, and it forces every single thing to be pinned down, and not hand-waved away. (Like another commenter, I was also hoping for a direct/standalone explana
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by jmmcd 2y ago
You see a cute dog in the park, and click the special button to find out what breed it is - amazing! But I know what Steve Jobs would have said to this. Just go up and ask the girl what breed her dog is, and get to know her.
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by jmmcd 2y ago
Right. Or to put it the other way around, the same leaf might be 1 pixel wide in one image, and 100 pixels wide in another image.
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by jmmcd 2y ago
> that the visual spectrum is very narrow (just 1 order of magnitude from red to blue) compared to audio (4 orders of magnitude from 20Hz to 20kHz) I was talking nonsense here - confusing the visual spectrum of light from red to blue wit
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by jmmcd 2y ago
I was struck by the comparison between audio spectra and image spectra. Image spectra have a strong power law effect, but audio spectra have more power in middle bands. Why? One part of the issue is that the visual spectrum is very narrow (
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by jmmcd 2y ago
Yes. But this is also the kind of thing that should be googled, or queried to an LLM, as a first pass.
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by jmmcd 2y ago
They love saying things like "generative AI doesn't know physics". But the constraint that both eyes should have consistent reflection patterns is just another statistical regularity that appears in real photographs. Better t
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by jmmcd 2y ago
Which of "purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research" do you think applies?
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by jmmcd 2y ago
Why not sing out a few paragraphs from copyright law, just to make the two fingers to artists more explicit?
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by jmmcd 3y ago
This is the best version.
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by jmmcd 3y ago
We now live in a sad, post-apocalyptic world, with no booming, no abandon, no turning around, and very few people in restaurants.

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