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Drawing with Code Interpreter for Fun(metastable.org)
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Code Interpreter Can Draw Pictures(metastable.org)
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Drawing with GPT-4(metastable.org)
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GPT-4 Code Interpreter and Pillow(metastable.org)
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Everything will be AI mediated(metastable.org)
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Like 50 pairs of AirPod Pros strapped to your face(metastable.org)
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by pbw 3y ago
Oh man that's an amazing document!
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Like 50 pairs of AirPod Pros strapped to your face(metastable.org)
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Why audio is better than VR(metastable.org)
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by pbw 3y ago
This is just growing pains for a new industry. OpenAI shot up to 100M users almost overnight. Hosting AI models at that scale has never been done before, and surely was costing them a fortune. It's not surprising to me they are futzing
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by pbw 3y ago
A floppy disk is a fixed size. The number of thoughts human language can convey is infinite. English Wikipedia has 6.6M articles. The AI could drop a Wikipedia-sized batch of articles, expertly written and cross-referenced, every day, forev
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by pbw 3y ago
That the AI's thinking might be more advanced than ours is not in dispute. What's different about humans->AI compared to cockroaches->humans is language. Imagine we take our library of congress, with 50M books, and create a
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by pbw 3y ago
I never said we'll mentally rise to the level of AIs. That won't happen. I only said AIs will be able to communicate complex ideas to us, in a way that's totally unlike our ability to communicate complex ideas to cockroaches.
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by pbw 3y ago
The fact that AIs will have some information that we cannot understand, or will have more information than they can transmit (or we can absorb) does not make us cockroaches. The AIs will deliver to us truly massive quantities of information
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by pbw 3y ago
If there were a species whose average adult intelligence was that of a human three-year old, then yes you'd be limited in what you could teach them. But as for what AIs can teach humans, you have to assume we are using competent smart
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by pbw 3y ago
No non-human animals are in the club that's marked by having a language with an infinitely generative syntax and a large (100,000+ words) and always-growing vocabulary. Intelligence might be a spectrum, but powerful generative language
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by pbw 3y ago
I suspect the limit of what can be expressed in human language and comprehended by the human mind is vast, but yes, not infinite. I think the AIs will absolutely saturate the connection between them and us, with a non-stop torrent of inform
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by pbw 3y ago
I think the key difference is language. I think human language is above a key threshold. Our syntaxes are infinitely generative and we have large vocabularies (100,000+ words) which are fully extensible. No other animals have that. My claim
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by pbw 3y ago
I agree "one AI" might produce output that keeps humans busy for decades. But that doesn't make us cockroaches. Cockroaches can't understand language, at all. You can't teach a cockroach calculus if had a trillion y
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by pbw 3y ago
Yes I agree it might be same thing under the hood. But with intelligence many very smart people seem to fall into using these analogies that diminish humans in a way I don't think is accurate. And I feel that makes people more scared o
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by pbw 3y ago
My point is you cannot teach a cockroach calculus, but if AIs invent a new type of math, they would be able to teach it to us. That's my claim. So the analogy of "we are cockroaches compared to the AI" is wrong, that won&#x27
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by pbw 3y ago
I'm talking about the entire human species, not myself or any one person. I'm saying that humans relating to AIs would not be like cockroaches relating to people. Cockroaches don't have human-level language, but we do, and I&
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by pbw 3y ago
Hofstadter says humans will be like cockroaches compared to AI. This is an oft-repeated line: sometimes we are ants or bacteria. But I think these comparisons might be totally wrong. I think it's very possible there's a Intelligen
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by pbw 3y ago
Since it's Mapbox I wonder if they are using the Isochrone API[1], or if this is more custom b/c it's subways? I agree an adjustable duration of trip would be neat. [1] - https://docs.mapbox.com/api/navig
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William Gibson's Visionary 2003 Director's Guild Speech(metastable.org)
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by pbw 3y ago
The "I will be happy when" trap is a dangerous one. Work on being content with that you have. Your health, your family, your friends, your hobbies. The fact that you live in 2023 and have the entire world of entertainment and info
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The Coming AI Content Storm(metastable.org)
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Fear Setting: Existential Risks(metastable.org)
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by pbw 3y ago
This is simplistic: "AI operates by making high-probability choices". AI has parameters like "temperature" (GPT) or "--creative" (Midjourney) which can trivially steer the AI towards lower probability choices.
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AI and Creativity(metastable.org)
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