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by pegasus 10mo ago
That wasn't obvious at all. I interpreted it as the chess masters lacking an advantage at playing from randomized position, which would be consistent with the claim you were supporting, as opposed to recalling which is neither here
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by pegasus 10mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but even with batch processing turned off, they are still only deterministic as long as you set the temperature to zero? Which also has the side-effect of decreasing creativity. But maybe there's a way t
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by pegasus 11mo ago
Then it's not for you. Doesn't mean only unemployed people find something like this not just desirable, but actually rewarding.
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by pegasus 11mo ago
Yep. It seems somewhat inevitable to have a readjustment at some point. Both Web 2.0 (online retail) and AI are (rightfully, I believe) creating a lot of buzz and stimulating a lot of investment. It's all very new and exciting and ther
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by pegasus 11mo ago
Apparently, it's called partial reduplication or emphatic doubling.
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by pegasus 11mo ago
I get sick not only due to overexposure to LLM style, but also because I associate it now with a very poor substance-to-style ratio. LLMs tend to not only overuse but also misuse those turns of phrases it returns to obsessively. For example
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by pegasus 11mo ago
You already mentioned two fields they have a huge impact on, software development and NLP (this latter one the most impacted so far). Another field that comes to mind is academic research is getting an important boost as well, via semantic
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by pegasus 11mo ago
Either that, or just tautological, given that LLM tech is continually morphing and improving.
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by pegasus 11mo ago
I think neither "righteous" nor "evil" are appropriate words in this context. It's a real-world institution with the expected biases, missteps of authority, episodes of getting embroiled in political machination, e
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by pegasus 11mo ago
Whereas yours is a redundant reflection of a reflection. As LLM-composed text often tends to be. Is there even a human behind this post or is it all autonomous already?
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by pegasus 1y ago
An agent is just a program which invokes a model in a loop, adding resources like files to the context etc. It's easy to write such a program and it costs nothing, all the compute cost is in the LLM call. What parent was referring to
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by pegasus 1y ago
List not fifty, but just ten of those, I'd like to know.
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by pegasus 1y ago
This is a search agent available in the cloud. The site mentions that they doesn't optimize for being "done in milliseconds and as cheaply as possible", and that they do a lot more work like extracting relevant paragraphs an
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by pegasus 1y ago
IANAL but think this is to remind you that fragments of text it returns to you after pulling them from various sites in response to your query are protected by whatever copyright notices might be found on those websites. Seems reasonable to
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by pegasus 1y ago
Given that the written complaint already had a list of ways Mozilla had stepped on the toes of those volunteers, expressing regret about their feelings without at least acknowledging that Mozilla's actions might have been rash is very
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by pegasus 1y ago
In your previous comment, you seemed to have no problem grasping what I mean by "can computers think?" - namely (and for the last time): "can computers emulate the full range of human thinking?", i.e. "is human thin
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by pegasus 1y ago
The kind of hard evidence you're asking for doesn't exist for either side of the equation. There is no computational theory of the mind which we could test "in the field" to see if it indeed models all forms of human exp
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by pegasus 1y ago
> There is currently zero evidence... Way smarter people than both of us disagree: among them being Roger Penrose, who wrote two books on this very subject. See also my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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by pegasus 1y ago
Yes, it's a very technical and circumscribed result, not requiring a deep insight into the nature of various mathematical models.
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by pegasus 1y ago
This, so much. Many mathematicians and physicists believe in intuition as a function separate from intelect. One is more akin to a form of (inner) perception, whereas the other is generative - extrapolation based on pattern matching and sta
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by pegasus 1y ago
I disagree. The question is really about weather inference is in principle as powerful as human thinking, and so would deserve to be applied the same label. Which is not at all a boring question. It's equivalent to asking weather cur
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by pegasus 1y ago
They can be made boring by reducing them to an arbitrary choice of definition of the word "thinking", but the question is really about weather inference is in principle as powerful as human thinking, and so would deserve to be app
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by pegasus 1y ago
We truly have no clue, nor could we pretend to infer an answer to this. Anyone who pretends otherwise needs to get off their high horse.
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by pegasus 1y ago
The bigger problem is that the benchmarks / multiple-choice tests they are trained to optimize for don't distinguish between a wrong answer and "I don't know". Which is stupid and surprising. There was a thread he
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by pegasus 1y ago
You only need a citation for the idea that apes aren't able to speak sign language?
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by pegasus 1y ago
Exactly. The example the article give of reducing resolution as a form of compression highlights the limitations of the visual-only proposal. Blurring text is a poor form of compression, preserving at most information about paragraph sizes
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A definition of AGI(arxiv.org)
305 points by pegasus 1y ago|514 comments
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by pegasus 1y ago
Yes, but the (semi-)autonomous entity you're referring to now is the whole company, including all who work there and design the LLM system and negotiate contracts and all that. The will to persist and expand of all those humans togeth
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by pegasus 1y ago
You could say that that, yes, that kettle is intelligent, or smart, as in smart watch . But the intelligence in question clearly derives from the human who designed that kettle. Which is why we describe it as artificial . Similarly, a m
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by pegasus 1y ago
If you've read the book, please elaborate and point us in the right direction, so we don't all have to do the same just to get an idea how those gaps can be explained.

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