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811.
by leobg 4y ago
Little known fact: Fisher Technik is actually a knockoff of an education focused toy set invented by the brother of Otto Lilienthal, who lay the groundwork for the Wright brothers.
812.
by leobg 4y ago
I think the ideas is that the LLM cannot think internally. It’s output is its thinking process. Especially with an auto regressive architecture like GPT, where each output token becomes part of the input. I imagine it like handing the LLM
813.
by leobg 4y ago
I recently asked it to produce a regex for me, and it responded that as a large language model, it wasn’t allowed to produce hate speech… Not making this up.
814.
by leobg 4y ago
Right. This is silly. I’m wondering: If it’s 80 years out of print, is it still protected by copyright at all? The thing with copyright is, it seems to me: You cannot ask for them to change the rules. You just have to break them. Imagine G
815.
by leobg 4y ago
Voice Dream Scanner on iOS recognizes pages and text and performs OCR. You just go snap snap snap. For text that is sufficient. If you want to capture the layout also, or graphics, things get much more complicated. Even just getting heading
816.
by leobg 4y ago
I never thought of that. Digital has lots of advantages. You can have it with you at all times on your phone. You can use text to speech. You can export your highlights. Soon, people are going to want to ask ChatGPT about content from books
817.
by leobg 4y ago
You can scan a 500 page book in 20 minutes with you phone, non-destructively. Though it’s not fun and the quality will not be ideal, especially if there are graphics in the text also. For text-only books, quality matters little as long as t
818.
by leobg 4y ago
Sure. But they already run a piracy site, don’t they? The cost and delay of shipping are what drives many people to piracy in the first place, I would argue. If I can have a book for $5 in two days as a used physical copy from Amazon, for $
819.
by leobg 4y ago
That power was diminished by the capitalized title appearing right after the first word in the sentence, which thus was also capitalized. Adding quotes would have made it easier to parse I guess.
820.
by leobg 4y ago
They should just make it easier for people to scan books. Or give incentives. Why mail physical books around when all you need is their content? Or just get people to upload photos from the backs of the books in their library. Then extract
821.
by leobg 4y ago
It’s also a bit self serving. Essentially we’re saying, “Yeah it looks as though I’m just doodling around on my phone while I work in online ads, but really, my life is 1000x more valuable to the future of humanity than that of some random
822.
by leobg 4y ago
Didn’t Wait But Why post something along those lines recently?
823.
by leobg 4y ago
Ok cool. Don’t worry about it. I think few people are as sluggish with software updates as I am. As for audio: I find ChatGPT gives the best answers when you give it a lot of context. Basically a dump of your entire thought process leading
824.
by leobg 4y ago
Haha no problem. Thanks
825.
by leobg 4y ago
Well, unfortunately you’re not gonna make a 10 million seed round. Because, hey, if people can understand, what are you doing, it can’t be worth that much… ;-)
826.
by leobg 4y ago
That’s an argument against legal AI as well. The idea being that the citizen has a right to be heard by the state. And that an AI handling a case is not really “hearing“ the citizen. Then, again, before Al Capone, nobody in their right mind
827.
by leobg 4y ago
“Attention Is All You Need” was a Google paper, wasn’t it? I think neither they know OpenAI expected that this would create such a hype. I mean, GPT 3 has been here for quite a while, and most people just didn’t care. Elon Musk has been wa
828.
by leobg 4y ago
> there's little doubt it was not Russia I cannot parse this. Especially since the rest of your comment sounds as though you think it was Russia. Which would be ”little doubt that it was Russia”, rather than the negation.
829.
by leobg 4y ago
Will it run on OS 10.13? And: Any plans for integrating audio? (Whisper speech to text and Elevenlabs or something as TTS. Should have a general toggle for when you want to work silently. And shouldn’t read code or tables.)
830.
by leobg 4y ago
And hijacking HN to do so. Not sure what’s worse. That people do it, or that it works.
831.
by leobg 4y ago
It’s an ad.
832.
by leobg 4y ago
Elon: “But I’m not afraid of dying. I think it will come as a relief.” https://youtu.be/2WX_mgnAFA0&t=26m58s
833.
by leobg 4y ago
Ha! Totally agree. Used it in my emails to OpenAI in the early days of GPT-3, hoping they’d adapt the term. I knew it from psychology, where it refers to people giving rational explanations for something that isn’t there (specifically in sp
834.
by leobg 4y ago
Because he thinks death is a useful thing, an enabler of change and adaptation. “People don’t change their minds. They just die.“ He explicitly said that he doesn’t want to live forever. Very different from other Silicon Valley rich kids. H
835.
by leobg 4y ago
Oh they did. There was this congressional hearing where Gene Cernan argued against giving SpaceX any missions, saying essentially they, as private enterprise, were incompetent and a disaster waiting to happen. “They don’t know what they don
836.
by leobg 4y ago
Would have checked it out. But that last sentence just sounded like the worst clickbait headline.
837.
by leobg 4y ago
Neural nets got started precisely as an attempt to understand the brain. ChatGPT is the very fruit of trying to do what your roommate talked about. Also, who says that aging and dying are not nature’s high level backpropagation? You’re one
838.
by leobg 4y ago
Mein Kampf doesn’t read like the work of a deep thinker. If that’s what a sweet tooth gets you, I don’t want it.
839.
by leobg 4y ago
I use Drafts on iOS. But I hate Siri dictation. Too many mistakes which are difficult to correct while walking. Was thinking Mic > Whisper transcription > GPT to take in a rough brain dump including instructions like “scratch that!” a
840.
by leobg 4y ago
My problem is that the walk usually just fills my head with new ideas that I then frantically try to write down during the walk.

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