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by kweingar 3y ago
> Unbelievable. Google's slipping hard on translation. It's true. Google Translate has some stiff competition in LLMs. It needs to start making up translations out of whole cloth if it wants to catch up.
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by kweingar 4y ago
There are people who write programs on Arch that use the python3 -> python symlink. Then when that program is packaged for other distros, you get this error. Not a huge deal by any means, but the non-standard behavior can add a bit of fr
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by kweingar 4y ago
There is still a specific “logic puzzle” mindset you need to have. Out of context, a sentence like “there aren’t penguins in Texas”, could be synonymous to “penguins aren’t native to Texas”, at least to my ear. It takes some familiarity wit
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by kweingar 4y ago
A wish is not a proposal
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by kweingar 4y ago
The article is not making an argument. The author is not debating whether we should stop using GPT-4. Calling this fallacious reasoning is a category error.
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by kweingar 4y ago
The author wrote a piece describing how they feel about something. It’s not making an argument at a debate. There’s no fallacy.
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by kweingar 4y ago
Technology advances but our solutions for equitably allocating wealth and income largely stay the same. I appreciate the author’s clear-headed and grounded approach.
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by kweingar 4y ago
> Albeit unethical and embarrassing. I really don’t understand this angle. In fact, I am fairly positive that the training set for GPT-4 contains many thousands of conversations with AI agents not developed by OpenAI. Do AI companies nee
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by kweingar 4y ago
Google could respond by seeding Bard output across the public internet, then if they can prove that GPT-5 is trained on this output, then they can sue back and AI development can stop altogether. Win for everybody!
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by kweingar 4y ago
This seems backward to me. Wouldn’t you be less impressed by ChatGPT if you thought that thought that human intelligence worked the same way as LLMs? If humans have some special sauce different from the computer, then it’s crazy that Chat
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by kweingar 4y ago
This morning I asked GPT-4 to play duck chess with me. Duck chess is a very simple variant of chess with a duck piece (that acts like an impassable brick) that each player moves to an empty square after their normal move. [I gave GPT-4 a mo
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by kweingar 4y ago
I would like to use GPT for engineering problems at work, but it’s just not practical for me since I work on a large internal codebase. It is very rare for me to need self-contained code solutions on the order of <100 lines.
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by kweingar 4y ago
Product descriptions are a good example of info that will still be published, because people will still by buying and selling products. The problem is with writing where the writing itself is the product, such as news. The LLM relies on fre
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by kweingar 4y ago
Doesn’t that mean that search products will also struggle, since they rely on everything being freely available?
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by kweingar 4y ago
> I even wonder if humans in 50 years will recognize AI by its particular (early 21st century) style to write and speak. I wonder if writing and speaking style will be frozen in time if people are bombarded with AI output all day.
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by kweingar 4y ago
Keep in mind that the Othello example is model specifically trained on only Othello games. I haven’t seen any claims that general purpose models like GPT-4 have internal representations of complex abstract structures like this.
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by kweingar 4y ago
AI search seems to have similar dynamics to traditional search. The people writing the stuff you’re searching for need to make money. (For example, AI doesn’t magically know about real-world events. It needs a human being to write about it.
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by kweingar 4y ago
I’ve said this before on HN, but if LLM agents catch on, won’t it be self-defeating in the long term? They need to pull tons of info from the web to be useful and up-to-date. If we all stop visiting websites, then who’s going to keep publis
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by kweingar 4y ago
> What's a news outlet worth paying for? who actually pays for content online? who knows how to block all ads and didn't do that? I don’t know how far we’re going to get if we not only expect volunteers to supply everything the
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by kweingar 4y ago
Mass adoption of AI chatbots seems self-defeating. Who is publishing the information that the chatbot uses to give you 1 concise answer? Depending on the query, it could be Wikipedia or an academic journal, but for many topics the chatbot w
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by kweingar 4y ago
I see what you’re doing but the parallel doesn’t really work. This isn’t an equal struggle between AI builders and artists. What happened is that AI builders took artists’ images, baked them in GPUs for a few months, and are now selling the
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by kweingar 4y ago
It is the word “malicious” that added venom to your first question. If I asked how artists can thwart “malicious” tools like Midjourney, you could reasonably assume that I disapprove of Midjourney and think they ought to stop doing what the
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by kweingar 4y ago
If training AI models on these images is fair game, then artists publishing images that are adversarial to the model is also fair game. Regardless of your stance on the AI art/IP debate, it seems enormously hypocritical for AI builders
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by kweingar 4y ago
This is going to be an arms race. Inevitably Glaze will be thwarted, and a new version will need to be made. Generative art models will always have the advantage in this fight. For them, they just need to crack the protection and update the
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by kweingar 4y ago
Glaze doesn’t lock styles up in legal restrictions. It’s a technological measure that makes your art less useful as training data in generative models. What’s the objection with that? Is an artist not allowed to publish their art in whateve
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by kweingar 4y ago
This really resonates with me. I spend a lot of time pathologizing my habits and preferences. The thought goes: If I am not doing things the way others do, I must be mentally ill somehow and in need of a cure.
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by kweingar 4y ago
It is important to note that “willful violation” in this context just means that the employer knowingly failed to pay wages on time (i.e. it was not just an error). It doesn’t imply any evil intent—being unable to pay on time does not absol
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FAQs – Late Payment of Wages (California)(dir.ca.gov)
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by kweingar 4y ago
> Even if the extremely unlikely scenario plays out and companies are unable to make payroll, employees are very unlikely to walk out, it would make an inconvenient situation (no pay) much worse (terminated) in an already challenging eco
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by kweingar 4y ago
It seems that he exhausted all other options. HR wouldn’t my tell him whether he was employed or not. What is he supposed to do in his situation? Continue twiddling his thumbs for weeks without knowing whether he will get paid or not?

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