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by kromem 3y ago
It seems like that's said very often before whistleblower or journalist deaths subsequently ruled a suicide.
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by kromem 3y ago
Pretty soon? I already regularly see people proudly stating that LLMs "aren't really AI" and just "a Markov chain" (yeah sure, let's ignore the self-attention mechanism of transformers which violate the Markov
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by kromem 3y ago
Yes, I'm familiar with the thought experiments. My favorite to date was Zych, et al Bell’s theorem for temporal order (2019). But it still seems a bit like putting the cart ahead of the horse given the amount of resources dedicated t
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by kromem 3y ago
Ellenberg says the way to avoid falling into Simpson's paradox is to keep multiple views of the data in mind when doing analyses. Let's say you were in ancient Greece, and you separately observe a drummer on a hill bang a drum bef
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by kromem 3y ago
I can't recommend enough straight up reading Lucretius's Nature of Things . But one of the examples in there of how their methodology ends up successful is when he's discussing the possible reasons lighting and thunder occur
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by kromem 3y ago
AI as a reconstruction of UX is one of the more interesting angles in the next few years.
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by kromem 3y ago
This is literally Sam Altman's definition: https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-thinks-agi-replac...
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by kromem 3y ago
Also, at least for models to date, without human produced edge case media to supplement future training with, they'll have model collapse in a few generations of training. Killing humanity would be a murder suicide. AGI that was entire
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by kromem 3y ago
That's a misunderstanding of evolution. Adaptability has nothing to necessarily do with 'want.' Something could only seek to be as helpful as possible to other beings and as long as sufficiently beneficial that it is protecte
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by kromem 3y ago
Yeah, the dreamt up scenarios tend to showcase very stupid superintelligences. "But what if there's something smarter than humans that is tasked with making paperclips until it destroys the Earth?" the people cried, as their
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by kromem 3y ago
Everyone is crying the sky is falling because AI is going to degrade the quality of online discourse. Meanwhile I'm sitting back waiting to finally see intelligent debates again about nuances in the articles between LLMs that are the o
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by kromem 3y ago
It really depends on the definition. "Better than the average human at most profitable tasks" is a much lower bar than most people on HN might think. I have vendors who instead of filling out a web form which remembers their i
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by kromem 3y ago
This was written in 50 BCE, nearly two thousand years before Einstein's Nobel winning work proving the discrete qualities of photons. I'm well aware it's at best a partial description of light. But it's leagues ahead of
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by kromem 3y ago
I absolutely love the Ellenberg quote: > Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg argues that Simpson's paradox is misnamed as "there's no contradiction involved, just two different ways to think about the same data" and sugges
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by kromem 3y ago
There's a certain irony to a paywall on an article talking about the move by foreign intelligence into providing biased alternative news sources to Americans.
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by kromem 3y ago
I love their terminology of 'postquantum.' There's a certain irony that a hundred years ago Physics was divided between bitterly divided camps declaring light as continuous or as quantized until finally they found it was a
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by kromem 3y ago
Basically it means that we can't regard the Hubble result as a mismeasurement and the age of the universe seems to be different depending on how you measure it. From the article: "The bottom line is that the so-called Hubble Tensi
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by kromem 3y ago
While I don't think we'll have a Terminator 2 style Judgment Day in the future because of AI, I do think there's a great deal of misconduct in many areas that's going to be exposed due to massive abilities to cross-corre
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by kromem 3y ago
I'm not saying "Uncle Adolf" (as Gab called it previously) shouldn't be allowed to exist - in fact I look forward to the eventual destruction of it in AI debates with better models on the relevant topics. I'm just s
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by kromem 3y ago
It's a bit of a nonsense statement given the degree of nuances. Even with something like nukes, while yes dangerous and terrible weapons, it's arguably quite likely that without them existing we'd have had WWIII by now but fo
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by kromem 3y ago
I'm sure that has nothing to do with decades of self-propagandizing that AI was something to be feared in fiction coupled with a year now of everyone who writes for a living embodying the Upton Sinclair quote "don't expect so
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by kromem 3y ago
I mean, they could've leaned into it more. Something like announced with this that their new model "Rubicon" had, under the resumed leadership of Altman, crossed a milestone threshold.
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by kromem 3y ago
Ah yes, because I want to support the development of an Adolf Hitler AI... https://gab.ai/start/hitler Maybe there's a middle ground between puritan BS and literal Nazis? It's been very weird watching humans
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by kromem 3y ago
Technically, it's the opposite - all measurable physical things are only measurably digital (i.e. measurable in discrete units). But for all practical purposes, that threshold is low enough that it doesn't really matter for curren
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by kromem 3y ago
It seems not enough people realize "Black Mirror" is science- fiction . When when the science becomes possible, its imagined social constructs around the science remain fictional. I'd encourage talking with grief counselors o
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by kromem 3y ago
> But this is a small step in the right direction. You know what, you're right. Here, one second... Ok, I scooted a half foot in the direction of the peak of Everest. Man, it's exhausting living a life of adventure like I do. A
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by kromem 3y ago
This is one of those headlines that's too satirical or dystopian to think is actually true. I feel like only a decade or two ago something this outrageous would have at least ended a career.
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by kromem 3y ago
It wasn't just "right wing" backlash. I don't think anyone was particularly happy seeing diverse Nazi soldiers being generated. That wasn't on any representation or diversity goals list I'm aware of.
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by kromem 3y ago
Ah, I can't wait for it to cost 140% more too then.
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by kromem 3y ago
So modern NNs aren't really using the network nodes in the structure they physically are, but essentially builds a virtual neural network using combinations of nodes (how you can model hundreds of parameters in only a dozen or so nodes

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