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by sgt101 3y ago
Sure - agree... but - because it's happened before doesn't make it ok (especially for the folks who it happens to) - many more people may be better off, and it may be a social good eventually, but this is not for sure - there is n
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by sgt101 3y ago
Personally I don't think that the use of previous research is an issue, the fact is that the investment and expertise required to take that research and create GPT-4 were very significant and the en-devour was pretty risky. Very few pe
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by sgt101 3y ago
I think ChatGPT has created some harms: - It's been used unethically for psychological and medical purposes (with insufficient testing and insufficient consent, and possible psychological and physical harms). - It has been used to dist
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Seems to me that most of that is spent on twitter.
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Even in the 1990's missiles would re-acquire targets after losing them - or after turning off their active targeting systems in order to prevent countermeasures being taken against them. It's plausible that Ukraine was told where
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by sgt101 3y ago
I was introduced to incompleteness in the context of Turing Machines and the halting problem in a CS course. I think that if you are introduced to it as part of a foundations of mathematics course then the focus is on what it implies about
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by sgt101 3y ago
Seems like you know what you are talking about! What's your take on GraphCast - do you see it as a step forward?
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There's an opportunity to build a completely different technology. LLM's have a specific architecture that makes them good at approximate retrieval. They have a specific learning process that makes them able to do this over a vast
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by sgt101 3y ago
We are in word games here about zero shot learning. The fact is that with zero shot the models actually aren't learning in the sense of updating their knowledge structure, they are instead using background knowledge as inference. We ha
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by sgt101 3y ago
I think the opposite! The problem is that almost everything in the universe can be cast as computing, and so we end up with very little differentiating semantic when thinking about what can and can't be done. Busy beavers is one of a r
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by sgt101 3y ago
Agree - also note that many office jobs have been shipped overseas, and also automated out of existence. When I started work there were slews of support staff booking trips, managing appointments, typing correspondence & copying and typ
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by sgt101 3y ago
Heh yup looks that way now, along with a priesthood protecting the discourse. Interesting that people like Neil Turock are using their position to right the ship now though.
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I'll agree when someone uses Crypto in the analysis of the question.
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Are the operators who do this certified and qualified to do it?
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A UK company called spinvox blew up when it was revealed that their speech transcription tech was actually a warehouse filled with people in Pakistan. In that case the blow up was due to data protection laws in the first instance, and inves
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by sgt101 3y ago
Are they viable though? The market they served is holed below the waterline by people getting the idea that they can WFH and the spread of high speed fibre. The years of the pandemic were years where (if it had been well run) a model like W
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There was this event, it happened in 2008 and it stopped the GMAC thing like the full stop stops this comment.
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> Tesla/SpaceX are of course the big success here, but I doubt we'll see anything equivalent until interest rates are back to 0... I guess it's all about where and when you draw the boundaries, Mush has just managed to los
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by sgt101 3y ago
I don't agree. The police enforce civil order by consent expressed through democracy. There is no analogy in international affairs. Who is it that is going to get bombed? I am thinking it will not be the NSA data centre's in Utah,
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And there it is. The full agenda. Blood and empire.
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If I were the French government and Frédéric Pierucci were taken hostage why would I give a flying somethingorother. What leverage did the USA gain from holding this man? Ok, if they had taken Macron's daughter, or a bus full of french
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by sgt101 3y ago
I think that the defense (and SBF) must have concluded that they were looking at 40 years before he took the stand, and if it ends in him getting 80 does that really make a difference? Maybe, just maybe, he could have swung it - but it look
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Ask HN: Personal digital identity to sign emails
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People made similar arguments about slavery...
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I felt less compelled by the paper after reading " 1,119 " as the sample size - how the fin f they think that they can get to estimates like 1:11,080 with a sample size of 1,119 I do not know. Going the other way: on the internets
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by sgt101 3y ago
Some good points - but "carefully removed the heads".. fella, they used an axe...
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they didn't chop the head though - they carefully removed it with a thin knife.
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If it's an execution why hang and decapitate? Also, why the careful removal of the head from the body? Executed folks don't tend to get treated carefully, whereas sacrifice and ritual needs to be done just right - or how can you e
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by sgt101 3y ago
It is now. It wasn't in the past. It wouldn't be if they had to compete with providers that also wanted to compete.
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Look - if you can optimise your workload over a capital cycle cloud is not for you. Especially if you are a technology company and have the bandwidth to deal with servers and ISV's properly. If you are a changing, growing, non-technolo

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