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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
According to [1], there are about 5500 people in Engineering at Uber. Using $1250 as the mid-point of the $ spend range, that comes to about $6.8 Million in engineering AI spend, ballpark, with the range being $2.75 Million - $12 Million. T
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> An LLM is a computer program, which isn't a human. You wouldn't excuse a calculator being occasionally wrong because humans sometimes get manual calculations wrong too. Ah, now we're getting technical. An LLM is a non-d
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
The level of detail they had to delve into in order to understand what was happening is wild! Apparently these systems are now complex enough to potentially justify the study of them as its own field of study [1]. The quanta article referen
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
May I humbly submit: Automatologist : One who studies the behavior, adaptation, and failure modes of artificial agents and automated systems. Automatology : the scientific study of artificial agents and automated-system behavior. Greek wo
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> That's not how the Greek word stems work. Sir, I would have you know that we are discussing English terms, not Greek AInthropologist works fine for me, and is a lot funnier LoL
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> It is not in any sense of the word a being, it's a sophisticated generator that relies entirely on what you feed it. OP is hedging bets in case the future overlords review forum postings for evidence of bias against machine beings
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Precision of ideas isn't purity of language That's fair. Was trying to be funny, so glossed over the difference. Leaving my post above unedited/undeleted as a testament to your precision, and evidence of my folly. Onward
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Synthropologist Have an upvote :) *thropologist: study of beings
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> am asking for a precision of language. “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse wh***. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages d
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> The problem does exist when using individual humans but in a much smaller form. And may I introduce you to organized religion :)
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> They are state machines I might have to hard disagree on this one, since my understanding of state machines (the technical term [1] [2]) is that they are determistic, while LLMs (the ai topic of discussion) are probabilistic in most of
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> If we all had the exact same bias then it would be a huge problem. And may I introduce you to "groupthink" :))
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> AI theologian no no no, don't stop there , just go full AItheologian, pronounced aetheologian :)
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Absolutely terrifying that OpenAI is just tossing around that such subtle training biases were hard enough to contain it had to be added to system prompt. May I introduce you to homo sapiens , a species so vulnerable to such subtle (o
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Synthetipologists, those who study Synthetic beings. I see you took the prudent approach of recognizing the being-ness of our future overlords :) ("being" wasn't in your first edit to which I responded below...) Still, a
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Please do not use anthropology or any derivative of the word to refer to non-human constructs So you, for one, do not welcome our new robot overlords? A rather risky position to adopt in public, innit ;-)
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> the evidence suggests that the broader behavior emerged through transfer from Nerdy personality training. > The rewards were applied only in the Nerdy condition, but reinforcement learning does not guarantee that learned behaviors s
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Superior architectures will leak pretty quickly via engineers. I agree with the outcome of your premise (i.e., openness), but for different reasons: First, isn't it the case that these bleeding edge 'newfangled' LLMs are
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> American AI was financed on a particular bet. The bet was that frontier models would be the next great monopoly business > The collision between those two facts — that American capital paid for a moat, and that the technology no lon
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> "Agile" organization is even more of a bullshit concept than "Agile" in the team. > Excepting for trivial-size, freshly formed startups, companies cannot be "Agile", because finance and legal and HR and
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Do big tech companies like FB and Google even pretend to be "agile" anymore? Folks from those companies will have to speak up, but my understanding is that yes, internally these large tech orgs use the Agile Methodology, as o
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> here are 2 main drivers of these layoffs: > 1. Correcting pandemic overhiring > 2. In the ~2010-2022 timeframe, tech companies poured all this money into speculative bets Any data/sources on which this might be based? The pa
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
>> If you pay attention to cats, you figure out they are fuzzy little “difference engines.” > That must be a mechanism in the brain rather than the eye Check out " A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence " [1] by
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Clearwing: Produce similar results as Anthropic Glasswing (Mythos)(github.com)
3 points by ninjagoo 6mo ago|1 comments
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From Eric Hartford at Lazarus-AI [1]: "Clearwing is a fully open-source vulnerability discovery engine. Crash-first hunting, file-parallel agents, oracle-driven verification, variant hunting, adversarial verification. Works with any LL
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> the ability to plan long term, which is something I don't think the US is capable of anymore. It may seem that way, but this lack is temporary until the pendulum swings back the other way. What is needed some mechanism to
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> When you frame it like that it sounds like some kind of vanguard of class-conscious people Less class-conscious and more reality-conscious - there's always going to be a group that's anti-science/anti-rationality because
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
While this model set (GPT-Rosalind) is limited to certain organizations, the announcement also included the release of a Life Sciences Plugin, which is more broadly available on Codex [1]. [1] https://github.com/openai/
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Americans clearly don't believe in science anymore There's about a third that lean that way or atleast they don't care, and they have gained control of the government because of various factors, namely, part of the middl

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