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mdp2021
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It is not that plain, and it is not limited to the USA. Edit: > alarming number of people who are still being dismissive The "alarming number" of dead people in practical terms here is probably ~99.9995% - if one checks indir
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> violent The mentioned entity is making accusations: the point could be that an authoritative institutional judgement is missing (at list in the article) to establish a responsibility. In fact, the target's rebuttal was «false al
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Original title: # Programmed by Mel Brooks: 100 Years at the Movies I just changed it realizing that 'programmed' may mislead this public - it has too strong a default meaning here. Anyway (for convenience) the titles selected by
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Selected by Mel Brooks (20 titles): 100 Years at the Movies
(americancinematheque.com)
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> reasonable way to tie that 80% to anything concrete or meaningful 80% of the implementation of an internal project, I guessed.
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Scented cleaners can create nanoparticles that reach deep into the lungs
(phys.org)
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Another instance of discovering the obvious. Putting chemical scents into products, and not supposing that what reaches the nose may be physiologically unwanted. Simulating cleanliness with the equivalent of "a coating of paint" (
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> How much underwear decomposed was strongly linked to how many nutrients and how much organic material were in the soil. // Burying cotton underwear proved to be a simple, easy-to-use way to get a first impression of soil bio
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What 2000 Buried Underpants Revealed About Where Soil Is Most Alive
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Let us make it clear: "outperforming humans at most economically valuable work" is not AGI. AGI is when you implemented Intelligence (what intelligent people call "intelligence"). One example (of the many given many time
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> Frankfurtian It probably is, but not necessarily generally speaking: explicitly intended gross estimates may not be Galileian - they are, well, gross and estimates. You are pointing to the wrong detail: it is not that they would be &
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French Top Court Gets It Right, Strikes Down Social Media Ban for Youths
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Xiaomi AI Cube Targets Local LLMs with 1.22 TB/S Near-Memory Bandwidth
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Haiku R1 Beta 6 Released After 2 Years; BeOS Inspired Project Turns 25 Next Week
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Time to read Mona Lisa Overdrive and see what we are still waiting from the future then. BTW: not all predictions from Neuromancer are there yet...
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(Corroboration, not deduction: "has four legs, so it is more probably a cat". That is vs falsification: "short, hence not all managers are tall". Which does not work anyway going from the logical context to the stochasti
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> blast radius The expression makes sense (a not dissimilar "trickle down" got accepted...). But used like in the text above, "the blast radius of your reduced productivity", it better be satire.
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> legislation... never manipulated enough to allow an AI to form a corporation It would be useless, given that you can just install a human controller signing (or not) decisions from others: the human remains responsible.
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It is not a matter of sentience or consciousness - that is unrelated to this meaning of Intelligence (for AGI - "solving problems well"). It is that Intelligence implies continuous reflection, which brings continuous refinement of
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Sure, the "6b subset" can be more knowledgeable on its area than a whole 27b generalist (and more efficient), but where is the simulated Intelligence encoded? A 6b subset as or more intelligent than a 27b raises the question of ho
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Thank you, no, I did not know that. Where have you found the info? Sebastian Raschka, Anthropic/OpenAI blogs? (BTW: you made me realize - I had to take "time off" for over half a year... I am sure I missed a lot.) -- Edit: fo
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> Better... than 3.8 27B How can a "6b active per token" MoE be better than a just released 27b in the same family? Possible maybe, but quite interesting and requiring some explanation. Edit: ok, on second thought, probably b
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And there we are, on another nudge to the verge of dystopia, to be added to the many that raised in these decades: > It’s a whole menu of new ventures for a company that recently vowed to ditch distracting side quests. Asked to sum it a
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AGI on static Neural Networks?! The list of requirements to have AGI is pretty long, and already that first one inconsistency makes the "hmmmm" bell sound.
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> That completely made up number That «completely made up number» was said by "Chief research officer Mark Chen", and that is news - curious, and somehow interesting. It is in the article, and probably more notable than '
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> For example, even if you make thinking tokens literally just Generally speaking yes, but actually no (just randomness is suboptimal, adding steps just to add steps is suboptimal). There is a mechanism working there (in having a CoT)
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That could work in a way, but it's very expensive as expressed and I do not know of prominent robust implementations. On the other hand, your post may contain a good idea: L=instruct_LLM("provide a list of synonyms and periphrases
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It's just information retrieval through a new NN based technology that allows to map concepts and ideas as the compression of long text into points in a multidimensional space that manages to compress even more dimensions than the give
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What member freakynit said nearby about chunks and relations between chunks, plus the storage and information efficiency problem: make some calculations about storing vectors - for paragraphs and for collections of paragraphs -, then compar
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We can confirm, RAG has been a very big thing in the past few years. It's actually bewildering that it be new to some now - but we are also getting the vibe that some are living an ""AI"-nausea" that may be shieldin
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