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by nicklecompte 2y ago
It is frustrating to read through demos which feature a hypothetical AI that greatly exceeds the capacities of any actual LLM, and which does not consider the serious risks of learners getting misled by confabulations. It is especially frus
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Let me start by saying I despise generative AI and I think most AI companies are basically crooked. I thought about your comment for a while, and I agree that there is a fine line between "realistic parody" and "intentional d
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
This is an unacceptably lazy and reckless comment: your very first example blatantly plagiarized from Star Wars. You even called the bombs "BB-8 bombs" to make them look like the robot! It's just a dumb demo, but it means you
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Right - the only reason Murati's behavior was "a tell" was that rational observers had a good reason to believe her statement was evasive and misleading, regardless of how she said it. In that context her emotional response
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
From the Ars Technica story[1], this is very funny: > But OpenAI's chief technology officer, Mira Murati, has said that GPT-4o's voice modes were less inspired by Her than by studying the "really natural, rich, and interac
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I think anti-deepfake legislation needs to consider fair use, especially when it comes to parody or other commentary on public figures. OpenAI's actions do not qualify as fair use.
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I tried using GPT-4 as a better way to search papers - it can be very annoying when you know the gist of a result but not the authors or enough details about the methodology for Google. GPT-4 was pretty good at figuring out what citation I
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
This is just a distortion, and shows you haven't actually engaged with the scientific criticism of IQ tests: > General intelligence was discovered empirically, not hypothesized and then searched-for. General intelligence has been hy
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
"To ensure your privacy against malicious use, we seed about 15% of the logs with fabricated entries that don't actually correspond with what you were doing on your computer." "Wait a minute... doesn't GPT-4 still h
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I think HOTT helps remove a lot of the footguns and computational hairiness around using type-theoretic mathematics. But the issues Buzzard is talking about are really more profound than that. This relates to a much deeper (but familiar and
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
It seems to me like it is yet another study which refutes the idea that we're able to scientifically measure "general intelligence" (or "cognitive intelligence," using the author's term). Instead of anything wh
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Big Government Socialism won't let you build your own 25km-circumference particle accelerator. Bureaucrats make you fill out "permits" and "I-9s for the construction workers instead of hiring undocumented day laborers.&q
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
The Big Dig (Boston highway overhaul) cost $22bn in 2024 dollars. The Three Gorges dam cost $31bn. These are expensive infrastructure projects (including the infrastructure for data centers). It doesn't say anything about how important
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
If I had to die in a plane crash, this seems like the least terrifying way to go out. Way better than hearing an ominous rumbling, scrambling for the oxygen masks…
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
One other thing to add is large-scale RLHF. Big Tech can pay literally hundreds of technically-sophisticated people throughout the world (e.g. college grads in developing countries) to improve LLM performance on all sorts of specific proble
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I don't think there is a slippery slope in the foreseeable future, unless you buy into sci-fi views of AI being like a human. We need to update the laws around copyright in response to these machines. It's similar to why copyright
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
> which can be debated, but it's a different topic No, it "can't be debated," it is clearly false! You said "by definition," but you used an irrational and bigoted definition of "general reasoning and l
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I don't think any of us will live to see AI smarter than a rat. So I am not concerned whether this team was going to superalign anything. The problem is that OpenAI's software, especially GPT-4o, is primed for dangerous misuse, an
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
If my subordinate was copying code from StackOverflow without attribution I would be annoyed enough to send a grouchy email. Behavior like that is bad hacker citizenship, and bad for long-term maintenance. You should at least include a hy
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I somehow missed this: > “Building smarter-than-human machines is an inherently dangerous endeavour. OpenAI is shouldering an enormous responsibility on behalf of all of humanity,” Leike wrote. Leike clearly did the right thing by resign
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Probably because the first Boeing whistleblower died by suicide and the second Boeing whistleblower died due to a stroke secondary to a respiratory infection. The idea that either of these were murders is a stupid conspiracy theory with no
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
The are two salient differences here: 1) You are a thinking adult - or a thoughtful teenager :) - and therefore you understand copyright law well enough to take responsibility for copyright law, and in particular you are capable of having s
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Isn't "mainly in how it destroys thinking" precisely what the parent comment was referring to with the Torvalds quote? I am not sure what your disagreement even is.
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
The headline of this HN post is misleading, it isn't really a "ban" as such and doesn't have to be "enforceable." These are guidelines whose target audience is good-faith developers who want to make positive
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
> And neither of these companies have any interest in innovating I don’t think this is true, or at least I think they have a strong interest in standardizing. Enterprise and personal users are routinely frustrated with Outlook and Gmail
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
That's a good point. What's funny is that "The Great Mouse Detective" was actually the film I was thinking of this whole time - I believe the ending sequence took place in Big Ben, and it looks quite good by 2024 standar
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
But Disney financed and distributed Tron. It wasn't made by a Disney Studio, and most of the animation was outsourced to a Taiwanese studio because Disney wouldn't lend any of their own talent. So I think it's fair to say t
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I am amazed they didn't seem to talk to any 3D animators before writing this. Because this is just plain wrong: > The hand-drawn images are usually faithful representations of the world, but only in a qualitative sense, since it is
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I thought the writeup was convincing and addresses the heart of the paradox. The only nitpick: you can have uniform probability distributions on infinite sets, like [0,1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_unifor
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
> I'm not sure I agree that those rule-of-thumb statistics are "arbitrary" or "fictional"… I guess it depends on what you mean by that. Sorry for the confusion: I meant that fragmede's comment was arbitrary

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