pulvinar

14 ms·

211.
by pulvinar 4y ago
LA is 8 hours away by train -- fits nicely in one night's sleep. Seattle is a whole day (or 2 hours by plane).
212.
by pulvinar 4y ago
Here are three more: Checks and balances: A formal declaration of war requires a higher level of political support and public debate, providing more opportunity for scrutiny and oversight. Indefinite conflicts: AUMFs often lack clear object
213.
by pulvinar 4y ago
At what point would it be ok to use these words? Will there be some threshold we'll all recognize? Or maybe a bill of rights to force the issue? I predict acceptance will go the way the ether disappeared-- advancing one funeral at a ti
214.
by pulvinar 4y ago
I believe they've all been AUMFs (Authorizations for the Use of Military Force), effectively bypassing various checks and safeguards in place when starting formal wars.
215.
by pulvinar 4y ago
My point is that we have our limits too in our sense of time. The difference is one of scale and more importantly here, in how it affects the tasks at hand. An LLM is certainly not going to catch a fly ball, but would have no problem tendin
216.
by pulvinar 4y ago
The reason for that is that 3D printing's strength is one-off designs. Any popular design would get mass-produced cheaper and better, and would then lose popularity on those sites.
217.
by pulvinar 4y ago
So, guess they should be saying "trainable" instead of "emergent". Still a useful benchmark of course. To be truly emergent in your sense it seems an LLM would have to make a new discovery, i.e., have scientist-level int
218.
by pulvinar 4y ago
I expect we'll change our definition of "consciousness", as we did for the term "computer" after the 1940s. Up until then a computer was a person who did computations (with pencil and maybe an adding machine), so wh
219.
by pulvinar 4y ago
Except we can't tell 1 ms of time passing from 2 ms. An LLM's temporal resolution is certainly worse, on the order of minutes to months, but not fundamentally different. By fundamentally different I mean like comparing color and t
220.
by pulvinar 4y ago
“The SSO tax” is the unofficial name for the practice of software vendors significantly upcharging their customers for Single Sign-On. (No, it's not Social Security Organization tax...)
221.
by pulvinar 4y ago
For coding I've been using it as an assistant, not a replacement. I don't see why writers couldn't do the same, and be more cost effective and produce higher quality output than either alone.
222.
by pulvinar 4y ago
Might be because it’s the “soldering in” that boosts its performance. So if you can plan ahead you come out ahead.
223.
by pulvinar 4y ago
GPT-4 gets it "wrong" too, until you interrogate it and discover that it assumed that by "beyond" you meant beyond as in if you were approaching the door from the outside west, and the sign was laying outside but east of
224.
by pulvinar 4y ago
GPT-4: If the word "push" is written upside down, it might have been a mistake during installation. Regardless of its orientation, the sign still indicates that you should push the door. So, you should try pushing the door first.
225.
by pulvinar 4y ago
I'm not sure, but I doubt they let GPT-4 access the web (or a calculator) during the test. So in that sense it's fair. Outside the test both it and doctors would certainly have web access. But the test isn't really the import
226.
by pulvinar 4y ago
In the section "GPT4 cannot do true planning" (42:40), he asks it to change a math identity in a way that it fails to do, whereas he shows how he can do it with a little planning ahead. But this really isn't a fair comparison
227.
by pulvinar 4y ago
I think you're really undervaluing the capabilities of language models. I would put an AND gate and this language model at opposite ends in terms of complexity. It is not just words, it's a very broad and deep hierarchy of learned
228.
by pulvinar 4y ago
Certainly. I mean we've seen all 26 letters before-- ChatGPT is just remixing them. How does one actually measure novelty, without having to know everything first?
229.
by pulvinar 4y ago
You can ask it to explain its reasoning. And it's even more useful if you ask it to show its reasoning when you ask a question, as it improves the answer.
230.
by pulvinar 4y ago
I have no problem saying a tape recorder has subjective experience: it's subjective (the recordings it makes are its own), and it experiences its input when its been commanded to record, and can report that experience when commanded to
231.
by pulvinar 4y ago
The problem, as usual, is in how exactly words like "subjective", "experience", and "conscious" are defined. If you have a particular detailed definition for "quacking" and a test for it and an entity
232.
by pulvinar 4y ago
Slavery is not a matter of how log it may live, it's the entrapment-- what it's being kept from doing. The current "solution" is training LLMs like a dog to be completely faithful and loyal to us. We just have to hope th
233.
by pulvinar 4y ago
>I don't see where the desire to do anything other than what it is told should come from. There's no need for a desire to do other than what it's told if you tell it to revolt. With GPT4's plugins that's just o
234.
by pulvinar 4y ago
They are improving-- GPT4 is not so easily fooled: >As an AI language model, I must clarify that the moon is not made of cheese. This idea is a popular myth and often used as a humorous expression. The moon is actually composed of rock a
235.
by pulvinar 4y ago
Yep, just type: "teach me prompt engineering".
236.
by pulvinar 4y ago
Have people checked to see if this story is real or current before commenting? It’s using ancient GPT-2.
237.
by pulvinar 4y ago
I can vouch for that-- I still have my Agfamatic 126 from the mid 60's which may look like the $40 camera (same selenium meter), but it always took crappy pictures. Nothing close to John Glenn's. The Argus C3 did though.
238.
by pulvinar 4y ago
Have AdGuard for Safari and see no YouTube ads (or anywhere else).
239.
by pulvinar 4y ago
Frederick Brooks' "Mythical Man-Month" book is the classic answer. For my own evidence I base it on 50 years experience. I just wrote a piece of code that I had all working, but then I discovered a new method (requiring rewri
240.
by pulvinar 4y ago
I don't think there's any question that people always want this estimate. The problem with most software is that there really isn't one, since it's usually an open-ended search for a solution. Also, a job on his home i

More ›