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Exactly. People seem to have this idea about what an AI chat bot is supposed to be good at, like Data from Star Trek. People then dismiss it outright when the AI turns into Pris from Blade Runner when you push its buttons. The other day I a
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Laura Towler is one person whose bank account was closed down after someone found their bank details and petitioned their bank. Then they shouted about it on Twitter.
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> I've not actually heard of any private individual in the UK getting un-banked. Of course you haven't because they are just ordinary people who just happen to have unsavoury political views. You can do your own research.
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> This is only true to the degree Bitcoin is a threat to the euro or pound. It's got nothing to do with Bitcoin and more to do with dedollarization. Read the working paper.
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There are many advantages (to the government). One is this will CBDCs will effectively be a digital ID with a full financial transaction history. Secondly, it would prevent bank runs from happening. Thirdly, monetary sovereignty. This is a
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> and banks are required to provide them Do you know if any of the political dissidents in the UK who have had their accounts shut down have successfully challenged a bank in court?
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Complex systems theory is probably a better area to at least get to grips with if you want to gain at least an idea of what the shape of our lack of our understanding is like, vis-a-vis cognition etc. Automatic differentiation is too deep i
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Wouldn't that be breaking academic kayfabe?
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Well, text-davinci-003 (ChatGPT) is an 'improved' version of the model at paper was based on (GPT-3). I don't think we know exactly what the improvement consists of.
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> ChatGPT will just generate lies, there’s quite a significant difference. Lies have existed since the dawn of civilization, so the difference doesn't seem significant, at all.
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I can give you hundreds of TikTok videos of young adults struggling to tell the difference.
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Almost everything I know about Chernobyl came from a TV series I watched. How much of that series is a faithful representation of reality? I've not done any research myself. Could I trust what is on Wikipedia when half of the reference
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The paper was updated with tests on GPT-3.5 (davinci-003) which was released (AFAIK) in Nov 2022. > davinci-003, solved 93% of ToM tasks, a performance comparable with that of nine-year-old children.
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The correlation between code quality and swear words [pdf](cme.h-its.org)
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I think Machine learning already went through the trough of disillusion around 2016-2018 in computer vision and around 2018-2020 for voice assistants. I think we're now past that and people can see that tools like ChatGPT are powerful
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Fairness used to be about treating individuals equally. For example, blind hiring practices. The new 'fairness' is incompatible with blind hiring or individual merit, because its ultimate aim is to make what you are more important
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There are apps which can track your vitamin d given a location and the times of day when you can produce vitamin d given the angle of the sun. e.g. dminder https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ontometr
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Simulacra and Simulation comes to mind. Eventually, the real internet will cease to exist.
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Didn't You just state the Chinese room thought experiment? It's an important observation that humans are just as capable of doing tasks without understanding them, and so its no surprise that the computer doesn't understand t
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Would you mind providing a factor analysis? Which specific economic indicator(s), when compared to other countries, screams 'brexit wot dun it'? I only ask because the IMF itself doesn't state Brexit as a factor in the predic
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In most areas you're correct, but the political slant/bias of Wikipedia is fairly blatant and is getting worse. See for example: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/41946110
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I think it captured the essential difference between the two algorithms, i.e. the heuristic, so I don't understand how this is 'bullshit'.
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> bring value to key stakeholders Or not, in this case.
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At first I thought no it must be lognormal since productivity must be at least marginally more than zero, but then I realized that's definitely not true: I know developers who definitely have negative net productivity on the team. The
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Centuries of political stability before and after the Glorious Revolution (1688) (constraints on the monarchy by parliament and strong political institutions) led to a large merchant and wealthy landowner class. Property rights and unique
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I'm the same as you but I'll usually have half a banana or an apple.
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The environmental impact would be net positive. If it isn't, then there's little to discuss in Sweden, it simply won't happen. Everything else is just details.
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From the article: > “Vegetable oils” in this context refer to oils extracted from seeds, grains, and legumes This excludes olive/avocado/coconut/nut oils.
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Obesity rates started rising in the 1980's in the US, not the turn of the 20th century. This corresponds with poor diet, not abundant nutrition.
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Depends who'll be reading it.

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