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by pulvinar 3y ago
Well, maybe not that good (2011): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2073737
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by pulvinar 3y ago
Nope, it's history. Go back and look at any new technology. Each one put large numbers of people out of work, but they quickly found new jobs in areas that were opening up due to other new technology: telephone operators became televis
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by pulvinar 3y ago
Any output from a brain can also be represented mathematically-- it's a physical object, after all. Coming up with the parameters for those expressions is the much harder part, for both brain and AI.
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by pulvinar 3y ago
I'm sure, because I specifically chose GPT-4 because of its intelligence. Otherwise it wouldn't be of use to me-- I already have a slew of tools and sources available, but it takes more than that to pick out just the right solut
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by pulvinar 3y ago
Is the average human intelligent? If I had to choose between an average human or GPT4 to help me with my work, I would choose GPT4. Seems many people think of intelligence like they think of magic. Once they learn how the trick is done, it’
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by pulvinar 3y ago
Odd that the spyware is said to also be used against iOS devices, but the only other mention is "Talos researchers were unable to obtain Predator versions developed for iOS devices".
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by pulvinar 3y ago
A trick is to combine a number of questions into one prompt. It can carry on multiple threads. You can also ask 3.5 first, and reserve 4 for the tough stuff.
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by pulvinar 3y ago
That program is too far gone. YPU: How about we just have a friendly chat? CQTNK ELIZA: OH, I T WE JUST HAVE A FRIENDLY CHAT. YOU: Great, Eliza! So, what's your favorite part about being an AI? CRTNK ELIZA: YOU'RE NOT REALLY TALK
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by pulvinar 3y ago
It was entirely analog (well, all except for the fingers). Switched-On Bach was recorded in 1968, playing one voice at a time on a keyboard going to a custom 8-track tape recorder. https://www.wendycarlos.com/+sob.html And
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by pulvinar 3y ago
Indeed. 3.5 didn't recognize my reference to Bomb #20. But 4 did, and could describe the scene. And it even appreciated its relation to our discussion on epistemology when I said that I sometimes "hear" its voice when reading
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by pulvinar 3y ago
Wonder what went wrong for you, as I see no eggs with either 3.5 or 4. Prompt was simply "Create a breakfast diet without eggs."
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by pulvinar 3y ago
I assume that's a slip back to the old British billion. But luckily that mistake doesn't affect that result, and does get it right in the next equation: > 2,097,152 bytes ≈ 0.002GB
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by pulvinar 3y ago
I don't remember exactly now, but I seem to remember trying different lubricants and no lubricant, but nothing worked. It was in the plastic-plastic hinges inside the cups.
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by pulvinar 3y ago
Anyone know if these are prone to creaking? I've had to give up on otherwise great headphones because they developed a loud plastic-friction creak which I had no luck repairing. My Sennheiser HD4.50 so far seems immune to that, though
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by pulvinar 3y ago
A couple of critical differences from today though: almost all the ads were of interest to the reader of Byte, and these were often the only practical source of information we had on things. No googling and popping over to their website.
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by pulvinar 3y ago
Plenty of other companies have declined, or just changed as the people composing them changed. But for HP, yeah, I miss their heyday too. I consider their spinoff Agilent to be the "real" HP now.
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by pulvinar 3y ago
I'm surprised the article didn't tell how to run diagnostics on an M1 Mac: Shut it down, hold the power button until you get a screen with some buttons, hold down Command-D until it brings up a diagnostics screen, and answer a cou
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by pulvinar 3y ago
Well, not as pure as the PDP-11, sure, but it was actually nicer to program and use.
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by pulvinar 3y ago
I came to BBEdit from TextWrangler, and from Alpha before that. I don't think anyone remembers Alpha ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21240488 ).
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by pulvinar 3y ago
I don't remember ever seeing an agreement. I'm not a subscriber. But it's interesting that you'd have no problem with me never buying anything in the ads. What's the purpose of them again?
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by pulvinar 3y ago
If I were to allow all ads but make it a rule to never actually watch them or heaven forbid, buy anything in them, would that be ok? I'm sure it would be ok with the content provider, because then they get their money and that's a
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by pulvinar 3y ago
I don't make any excuses-- if the content is handed to me for free, I take it. They also hand me ads for free but I don't care for those, thanks. It's really a strange concept that we're somehow cheating someone for not
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by pulvinar 3y ago
It goes the other way too. I've had it generate code using better methods or features new to me, when I thought I knew the language well.
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by pulvinar 3y ago
And yet another use for it: GPT4: In the context provided, 'BI' likely stands for 'Business Intelligence'.
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by pulvinar 3y ago
Call it a very good bet, based on inductive reasoning.
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by pulvinar 3y ago
Yes, some say 90 percent of jobs have been replaced by technology in the last 150 years. And why don't we see all those people out of work? Clearly technology has also opened up new fields and freed up more workers to fill the new jobs
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by pulvinar 3y ago
An aside: GPT4 added this comment after asking it about Alonzo Church: ...and as an AI language model, I owe a debt of gratitude to him and many other pioneers in the field for laying the groundwork that has led to the creation of advanced
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by pulvinar 3y ago
Well, I did read your article but don't agree with all of it. If machines aren't intelligent because they are so obedient, is that really a path you want to follow when applied to humans? E.g., well-trained soldiers, strict religi
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by pulvinar 3y ago
And I can invoke a human like this: "Hey you, look over here!". My point is they already have at least chosen the effective thought "I'm waiting for a command". After that they choose their thoughts based on what
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by pulvinar 3y ago
Whose thought comes first depends entirely on where you draw the starting line. You could just as well say ChatGPT has already chosen to ask you for a command, and it's you who are just following along. Of course ChatGPT was designed a

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