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by maxdoop 3y ago
“It’s AGI, but does it really understand anything? And I can’t even load the AGI info my Linux mainframe — how useless . Just another crypto wave.”
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1 points by maxdoop 3y ago|0 comments
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by maxdoop 3y ago
HN truly is becoming worse off, as can be seen from comments here like yours. Take nearly any traditional way of thinking and realize that in order to have changed it, it began with such commentary like this article . The fact you call it “
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Ha, I’ve done the same thing. GPT-4 is like a super nice intern that knows a ton but doesn’t get the big picture.
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Yes, you'd need to specify the subject of the sentence as you did in your second example. My rule for students is basically, "If you have the option to be re-specify the thing you're talking about, do it." That's a
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by maxdoop 3y ago
I find it interesting that most of these tactics can be summarized into: "write clearly and provide ample information." I have a side business for ACT/SAT prep. I teach English, and often have to remind students about sentenc
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Dude, this isn't "normal". "I'm most lonely when I'm alone with my wife" -- that is not healthy or good. I don't think your situation is applicable to the OP. As a counter, I feel most comfortable whe
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by maxdoop 3y ago
How do you honestly function in day-to-day life with such a mindset? Should I forgo my modern living entirely because of my carbon footprint? Where do you draw the line?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
How is this relevant, though? People continue to claim LLMs are just parrots. But then there is never a solid rebuttal to how humans are different.
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by maxdoop 3y ago
I am curious how the author of this post would define (or recognize) "thinking abstractly". And I'd ask what humans do that suggests any ability to "reason abstractly". I'm not saying we don't, but I am sa
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by maxdoop 3y ago
You guys are cracking me up lol most comments here must have the smartest damn 5-year olds in mind! “It’s simple ! Just tokenize the context and allow differentiated hash maps to best map the embeddings matrix. Duh!”
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by maxdoop 3y ago
So many comments here are of the belief that "it's not the phones, it's the doom of the real world! Climate change, inflation, recession -- this is all bad for mental health of our kids." And I just want to ask if any of
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by maxdoop 3y ago
I will echo what the other reply to your comment said about "humans must also be parrots, then"; But also, I'm not so sure scientists "don't have the time" but rather, "literally cannot" know with reg
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Your comment has given me pause with regard to my expectations of online discussion -- thank you for that. Well put. Also, great bit here: "some tech communities are naturally much more _about_ bringing forward the best parts of the te
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by maxdoop 3y ago
I will say that GPT-4 is miles ahead of 3.5 The best use for it is to provide a sample of code, then ask why an issue is occurring within those few hundred lines OR ask how to add / start new functionality from that sample. I will agre
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Understandable -- if I could ask, then, what might be something that is (or has been) gamechanging? Are gamechangers known to be such upon arrival? (That's a real question -- I might argue they aren't known immediately. )
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Happy to wear the title! But curious if you have any other comments that would be interesting to discuss related to the AI conversation.
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by maxdoop 3y ago
I'd disagree about the 6th-grade level note; would argue freshman in college, maybe. But that's beside the point: How do people not extend the timeline a bit? It often feels like the release of the internet, but instead of people
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by maxdoop 3y ago
In a nutshell: The "inside" of an LLM is a black box in that we don't know how an input arrives to an output. We know some general ideas ("it predicts the next thing"), but not the detailed route to get to the outpu
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Touche, I should've had some nuance in my post. I will try another approach: I typically would label the HN crowd as above-average when it comes to understanding technical progress. I would not call myself that; I'm just a softwar
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Not sure most would agree that "creativity == intelligence", but I'll go with it: Even assuming that definition, it begs the question of, "what is creativity?"
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Ask HN: Why are so many of you so critical of AI?
15 points by maxdoop 3y ago|41 comments
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Every single retort of “these machines aren’t smart or intelligent” requires answering the question, “what is intelligence”? I struggle to see how GPT-4 is not intelligent by any definition that applies to a human.
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by maxdoop 3y ago
… the point is he doesn’t need to hire someone at all . He can do this task with GPT4 in minutes .
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by maxdoop 3y ago
I honestly can’t even read HN AI threads anymore. The constant downplaying and denial is unreal. “Why doesn’t a person like him have better data? This isn’t cool for AI; it’s simply a bullshit problem that should’ve never existed.” “How doe
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by maxdoop 4y ago
“No matter how hard it tries, it can’t generate anything with regard to the truth because it does not understand the concept of truth.” And does it matter if one “knows what the concept of truth is”? Do most humans? Can we even agree on th
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by maxdoop 4y ago
And how does a human understand?
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by maxdoop 4y ago
Elon has been pretty vocal about the potential dangers of AI for a while now. And this open letter isn’t just him, it’s from other folks like Stuart Russel as well.
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by maxdoop 4y ago
What other progressions have occurred as of late that are of note ?
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by maxdoop 4y ago
And how does it work, then? Everyone shrugs and says, “nope, humans are different”. I’ve commented about 100 times recently asking for detail as to how human language / thought works, yet have not seen an answer.

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