mrtranscendence

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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
> And if these rumors, that GPT-4 is inherently un-deterministic and unreliable, are true then most enterprises are better off finetuning open source LLMs—which are just as capable Wait, am I misunderstanding you? I feel like I've h
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I guess they could bet heavily against themselves, try to get prediction markets to coalesce around the result being genuine, them come out saying "oops, we were mistaken"? Bam, rich!
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Sure buddy, you do that. Hire your own sheriffs and they'll defend you against the mean central government.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I mean, he has a PhD in physics, at least. He's not just some rando off the street.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
A lot of people have used ChatGPT, but it's far, far from most.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
For what it’s worth, I’m 41 and I often prefer video content. It keeps me on track when my attention span would get in the way were I reading a longer tutorial or manual.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I don’t know how to square this with the fact that I routinely ask GPT-4 for code and get back answers that are in fact correct. You’re making it sound like it’s purely random, like I’m just getting back a string of zhrueksnbd8373&;! or
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
My girlfriend has a rather uncommon name, but her FirstNameMiddleName@gmail.com gets emails meant for someone else rather frequently. Sometimes it’s even official PII or PHI. She’s tried to let people know but they’re surprisingly sometimes
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I have @CommonFirstNameCommonLastName on Twitter, and I occasionally get mentioned or DMed by people thinking of an entirely different person. It’s not often enough to be too annoying, though.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
There’s a history of actual usage among some subsets of people , not for everyone. Regardless, it doesn’t really matter if there’s history as long as usage is in fact changing. “Literally” meant one thing much longer than it has been a sup
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Definitions are determined by actual usage. If people call Llama 2’s license open source then ipso facto it’s open source.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
> Kubernetes Which they never apologized for!
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I don’t know that Google has said exactly how it’s implemented this feature under the hood. The underlying Palm 2 model does not natively handle images, though, so it’s relying on other services like Lens to handle the image understanding p
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
You say anyone interpreting your earlier statement as being about those who agree with Google lack basic logic, yet you repeatedly say things like this to people defending Google: > And given that I'm not a pathetic bootlicker, I do
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
This is probably because it can’t actually understand images, it’s relying on other services to deal with it. So it can do an image search to find what something might be an image of, or use ocr to extract text, but it’ll fail on tasks that
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
> I mean things like it refuses to speculate about what medical condition might cause some given symptoms. Are you sure about this specifically? I’ve recently had zero trouble getting GPT-4 to give potential diagnoses for a given set of
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Who’s Barb? The only Barb I know is a retired greyhound breeder, and I doubt she knows.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Great. And if I want your opinion on how smart it is to be a bit silly with LLMs when I’m not even attempting to test them systematically, I’ll be sure to ask you.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Not exactly. The quote about highway collisions referred to a time in the future where there are substantially more satellites in orbit. If it’s true that these maneuvers are increasing exponentially, that could be a genuine problem.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
This is hysteria. Mozilla's "political action" is minimal compared to their browser work. Pointing fingers at mostly nonexistent institutional wokeness as the reason for their low market share ignores the many true reasons (i
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
> that's... not a valid argument for this discussion? I believe the intention was to argue against the notion that 95% of users don't read release notes. The contention seems to be that, because Firefox users are more technical
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Were you aware that the author is Shopify's CEO? How deliciously absurd!
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I still use Facebook for the family connections and the pet cat/dog/rabbit accounts I follow, but I'm essentially done with Twitter now. I was already not posting there basically at all, and the rate limiting means I won&#x27
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Not invented here.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
This is a great point. There’s a lot of wooly thinking about what it means for a system to be intelligent, particularly “super” intelligent. People seem to think we’ll create a machine that is almost literally infallible — able to predict b
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Strictly speaking they said “a lot”, not “all”.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
The analogy is just that: an analogy, and a very imperfect, misleading one. The working of the brain may have motivated early research, but GPT (as instantiated in hardware) does not operate or learn in a way similar to a human brain.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Intent only goes so far. If I continually but unintentionally reproduce copyrighted works verbatim, I could still face consequences, particularly if I did not show due diligence in preventing it from happening in the first place.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Sorry, I was being a little flip. There's more to it than that, of course. Is the performance sufficiently transformative, is it educational, is it non-profit, etc.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
> Should I have gotten help from the government to instead stick to old style sysadmin work? I don't think anyone beyond a few marginal voices are calling for a ban on job automation. What they seem to prefer is that, if they are

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