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mofeien
6mo ago
Fictional timeline that holds up pretty well so far: https://ai-2027.com/
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mofeien
7mo ago
> > The most positive outcome I can think of is one where computers get really good at doing, and humans get really good at thinking. > This is where LLM is currently going. This is not where LLMs are currently going. They are trai
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8mo ago
> Even if they wanted to fix this by making the light sensor do a constant check it wouldn't work as the privacy led light indicator is triggering the same sensor, The privacy led light could just turn off for a couple of millisecon
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mofeien
8mo ago
There are some basic reasoning steps about the environment that we live in that don't only apply to humans, but also other animals and geterally any goal-driven being. Such as "an agent is more likely to achieve its goal if it kee
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8mo ago
Obviously a human in the loop is always needed and this technology that is specifically trained to excel at all cognitive tasks that humans are capable of will lead to infinite new jobs being created. /s
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8mo ago
Regarding the "wrong direction" issue: In my experience it could also have just been the case that both directions had card templates, but due to some sorting order of new cards setting all Chinese->English cards would appear b
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11mo ago
> As a technologist I want to solve problems effectively (by bringing about the desired, correct result), efficiently (with minimal waste) and without harm (to people or the environment). > LLMs-as-AGI fail on all three fronts. The co
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1y ago
There is the concept of n-t-AGI, which is capable of performing tasks that would take n humans t time. So a single AI system that is capable of rediscovering much of science from basic principles could be classified as something like 10
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1y ago
> there are plenty of things that LLMs cannot do that a professor could make his students do. Name three?
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1y ago
> What makes you think that? Self driving cars [...] AI is intentionally being developed to be able to make decisions in any domain humans work in. This is unlike any previous technology. The more apt analogy is to other species. When wa
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mofeien
1y ago
People like yudkowsky might have polarizing opinions and may not be the easiest to listen to, especially if you disagree with them. Is this your best rebuttal, though?
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1y ago
> We accomplish this by forming concepts such as "ledge", "step", "person", "gravity", etc., as we experience them until they exist in our mind as purely rational concepts we can use to reason abou
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1y ago
Can you explain why?
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1y ago
There is lots of discussion in this comment thread about how much this behavior arises from the AI role-playing and pattern matching to fiction in the training data, but what I think is missing is a deeper point about instrumental convergen
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1y ago
If you already have the implementation for the CQT, wouldn't you just be able to replace the morlet wavelet used in the CQT by the gammatone wavelet without much of on efficiency hit? I'm just learning about the gammatone filter,
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mofeien
2y ago
I also wish our children all have an A1 day in their classrooms!
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2y ago
For another, more detailed take on the same topic, but with a more competent "villain", check this out: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KFJ2LFogYqzfGB3uX/how-ai-tak...
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2y ago
Hi, thanks for the interesting submission! I was a bit confused by the detour via utf-8 to arrive at the code points and had to look up UTF-8 encoding first to understand how they relate. Then I tried out the following candidate = chr(0
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2y ago
To me this also feels like a statement that would obviously need strong justification. For if animals are capable of reasoning, probably through being trained on many examples of the laws of nature doing their thing, then why couldn't
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2y ago
"The internet is just boxes sending electrical signals to each other. We already had telegraphs doing that centuries ago" "The human brain is just a bunch of neurons firing. Each individual connection is basic chemistry"
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2y ago
History contains countless examples for the fact that "in order to complete an important task or goal it is useful to exist". It also seems not too difficult to deduce logically. So even if Yudkowsky's fanfiction were exclude
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2y ago
It also means that you should update your belief about the reasoning capabilities of LLMs at least slightly. if disconfirming evidence doesn’t shake your beliefs at all, you dont really have beliefs, you have an ideology.
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2y ago
In "mice that had been genetically altered to express human tau"
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2y ago
I agree. C++ is statically typed, as in everything has a type known at compile time. But it is also weakly typed, as in types can be be converted into others implicitly which only makes sense a fraction of the time and readily introduces ac
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2y ago
Claude identifies a mix of False Analogy, Hasty Generalization, and Appeal to History
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2y ago
LLMs are increasingly trained on multimodal data besides human written text, such as videos showing complex real-world phenomena that humans may also observe, but not understand, or time series data that humans may observe but be incapable
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2y ago
In school there were overachievers, who put as much as they could in a task the teacher gives to them and always chased the highest grade, and half-asses, who always scraped by with the least amount of work necessary. They did so mostly ind
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2y ago
Thanks for the inspiration. Works on android 14, too, under accessibility options -> color correction, and you can set a two finger swipe up gesture to switch between the modes.
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2y ago
ChatGPT-4 won't kill us, and probably neither will the next generation of models. But if we keep building more and more powerful AI systems, eventually we will reach a point where one will become an existential threat. Present dangers
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2y ago
> Any pro bodybuilder who refocused their efforts into powerlifting would quite quickly be putting up impressive numbers. This seems interesting. Do you know of an example of a pro bodybuilder who turned to powerlifting? I wonder how the
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