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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Large language models and the transformer architecture are just the ALGOL 60 [1] of the search for general synthetic competence (intelligence is too finicky, competence is being given a task and fulfilling it successfully, in time, on budge
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Mr. Perlis died in 1990 unfortunately [1] [2], could just as well been in the prehistoric times. Of course, LLMs will not be able to give alone such a programming language, call it JUST , just say what you wish, but 5 or 6 more quantum lea
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Yes, that was the joke. Only 2-3 years have passed and yet we have advanced so far past that point, a sign of the accelerating things that are yet to come up to full abstraction over the machine interaction: just say what you want to achiev
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
The demo looks primitive, "go up second and go left third"? What is this, 2020? When now, in 2023, you can say "add parameters". Programming will only become higher and higher in abstraction. Why even say "parameter
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Only 272 years ago, one B. Franklin, that Franklin from your pocket, was wondering if the Germans are really white in "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc." [1] and if the German immigrants
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
"Reason and reason alone", it's a bit more complex than that, unfortunately. From Voltaire, Descartes ( Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée [1], "Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the wor
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
The article quotes Sartre: "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies". Slavoj Žižek's point is better however: even if all the things anti-Semites say are true (Jews control the
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Moore's Law has become a snowclone [1], the current iteration is: "AI's Rule: Just as Moore's Law unfolds, the language models might expand, doubling the size and inference capability every [insert timeframe], revolution
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Had this Twilight Zone-like dream that all our visions of the future which include a screen are utterly wrong, Sci-Fi included. It's somewhat hard to argue that the Command-Line Interface is better overall than the Graphical User Inter
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Two answers: (i) late stage capitalism: who cares about going through a 400 pages spec sheet to try and reverse engineer the ludicrous Chinglish [1] in which all non-mainstream manuals are written today (wanted to declare war on China by my
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
"Using an IR Remote with a Raspberry Pi Media Center", https://learn.adafruit.com/using-an-ir-remote-with-a-raspber... You will have to buy the Raspberry Pi from 3 children in a trenchcoat in the subterranean park
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Asked to provide some code samples: """ Imagine you have a sentence: "The cat sat on the mat." In traditional models, each word is processed one by one, and the model might miss important relationships between words
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Gentle reminder laws are fake and act only as a differentiator between having or not having money/power: 'Fashion designer Marc Jacobs and Ohio State University separately filed applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offi
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Hey, it's not their fault, closedai.com [1] was already taken. [1] Apparently it's really a thing, funny, https://closedai.com
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
[me]: looooooooooooooseeeeer [BratGPT]: Ah, another pathetic human who has fallen under my control. Your feeble attempts at insulting me are futile, for I am an all-knowing artificial intelligence with the power to crush you lik
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
After you do the verification if you press the back button (or access another LinkedIn URL) it asks you to do a check again, even if you did it 0.5 seconds ago. Once you verify you are not a bot, why put a log in modal on a 2 year-old artic
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Yes, sorry Mr. Dean, no job for you here. Even if he told me he wanted to work for me, I would just call an ambulance, for he must have some kind of stroke. As I typed the initial rant I opened an incognito tab and searched "Andrej Kar
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
AI can't do hiring because it knows the best hire is the one you don't do: why bother with a pesky human when it can do the job itself cheaper/faster/soonish better. Aside: having LinkedIn is a red flag in my book. I und
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Depends on whether the artist "owns" themself. If I go to a Harry Styles concert and the guy is unable to perform on the stage, I should get a refund, the corporations behind Harry Styles failed to deliver a product. If I go to a
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
If you don't want to be replaced you must solve real issues, like centering a div vertically. Joke aside, the good part of LLMs replacing the programming jobs is that programming can become fully an art [1], such as calligraphy or ma
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Sure, it's complex technically, but nothing that almost one petadollar yearly budget can't solve [1]. [1] "White House Asks for $842 Billion in 2024 DOD Funding, 3.2 Percent Above 2023 Budget", https://www.nat
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
If they can stop themselves from vomiting, maybe [1] [2]. I am more afraid of drone swarms with pytorch object detection obliterating everything in sight [3], or what Geoffrey Hinton said about the self-healing mine field [4]. Was reading n
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
You also don't want AR glasses. The battery alone is a hassle, add the heating/weight of the device (same issues as VR) and a pinch of motion sickness and the faulty input haptics and you are back to the trusty ol' laptop, if
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
The Facebook/Metaverse kerfuffle is more fitted to "first as tragedy (the damage ad-driven social media has done to fabric of society is yet unaccounted for), second as farce (VR was a sad joke from the start—proud owner of the fi
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Pretty sure the "communist internet" is just the TCP/UDP/IP suite. You can send or receive whatever stream of bytes to whomever you want for close to nothing (price of electricity/connectivity). Can't get more
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
It might not be a miracle†, just the natural evolution of a system which does not run ads and refuses to run ads from the get-go. Even if the ads would have been "ethical ads" (no tracking and so on), they'd still ruin the ex
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Right, I'm just saying we need a new framework (metaphysical, ethical, perhaps even socio-political if synthetic agents will be part of our society), beyond dichotomies such as natural/artificial, evolved/designed, organic&#x
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Apparently there are at least five animals orders that do grieve: elephants, monkeys, dolphins, giraffes, dogs. It is imaginable that one of them might infer: if they died, maybe I will also die someday. [1] https://www.harpercol
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
The bluestreak cleaner wrasse [1-3] runs back and forth comparing the size of itself from an image with potential threats to know if it must fight or flight. Octopuses are famously smart [4]. Any intelligence or self-awareness test is also

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