jsimzeroone

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by jsimzeroone 3y ago
Palo Alto is a (mostly) wealthy suburban town next to Stanford U. Without traffic it is 30-40 minutes from SF -- twice as long when traffic is bad. There's a train that is lame by European standards but fairly good for the US, which
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by jsimzeroone 3y ago
The idea would be that you would replace the "A" on the ball with the character that is in the QWERTY's A position the Dvorak keyboard, etc.
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Skynet isn't the problem – GLLMs will destroy reality(youtube.com)
2 points by jsimzeroone 3y ago|1 comments
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by jsimzeroone 3y ago
This talk is about how generative large language models like ChatGPT are a new (since 2017) kind of AI, and they've turned out to develop surprising emergent capabilities like developing a theory of mind (currently equivalent to a 9-ye
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by jsimzeroone 3y ago
This video is essential viewing. I'm surprised neither of the mentions of it took off.
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by jsimzeroone 4y ago
One precondition for sentience would be some kind of continuity. Does the AI operate separately from its tasks, or does it instantiate, take care of some request, and then end, as a ChatBot process does? Is it actively processing while wai
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by jsimzeroone 4y ago
The reminds me of an incident that made me (kind of unfairly) boycott Bed Bath and Beyond for the last few years -- I lost my wallet and didn't have credit cards for a bit, and when I tried to pay at BB&B with a check, they used a
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by jsimzeroone 4y ago
I think the reality is that a lot of people really die from an overdose of morphine at the end. Once you are in hospice, the advice is to give enough to make the person comfortable, and eventually that leads to death.
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by jsimzeroone 4y ago
There's an old cliche that when you go from being an employee to being a contractor you trade the illusion of security for the illusion of freedom.
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by jsimzeroone 4y ago
Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" has a fake AI "character" -- a book that appears to be AI but is really operated by low-paid humans in 3rd world countries (reminiscent of the Mechanical Turk, a supposed chess pl
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by jsimzeroone 4y ago
They weren't. The alt-right seeks to erase distinctions so all things mean whatever they want at the moment.