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by skepticATX 3y ago
> Reality is, the AI doctor you CAN visit is better than no visit at all. Yes, but it’s a problem if this becomes the goal. When the goal should be to allow everyone equitable access to the best healthcare. I’m afraid that we’ll settle f
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by skepticATX 3y ago
What is with these articles that put layoff statistics next to discussions of AI, not directly making the claim that they are connected (because it is clearly baseless), but clearly leaving it for the reader to make the connection. I find t
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by skepticATX 3y ago
It’s hard to blame people when OpenAI’s whole shtick is that they’re mere years (at most) away from summoning a god machine that will usher in a techno-utopia, or destroy all of humanity. And to make matters worse, they have selected for th
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by skepticATX 3y ago
I drive a compact sedan in an area known for its love of trucks. Even 5 years ago, it felt fine. Now I am noticing more and more that driving the sedan feels flat out dangerous. There are more huge trucks and SUVs on the road. They impede m
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by skepticATX 3y ago
AI isn’t vaporware, but in my view there is a massive AGI bubble right now. Everyone is attributing high level reasoning and intelligence to LLMs and quite frankly there is little evidence for this being the case. There is almost certainly
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by skepticATX 3y ago
I think the exact opposite is true. The more you play with these tools, the more you realize that they are not nearly as robust as they need to be to have a significant impact on society. We need much more reliability. We will undoubtedly
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Your neighborhood cat has vastly more reasoning ability than the best LLM, and it’s not consuming any text.
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by skepticATX 3y ago
The materials that you are referencing were all created for the benefit of humans. The creators want humans to learn from them.
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Of course. And if machines become conscious (I don’t think we should ever build something like this even if we can), I’d be the first to advocate that we give them moral consideration. Right now though, we should put humans, and animals for
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Current AI discourse has made me realize that there is quite the dichotomy between people who see humans as nothing more than biological machines that will soon be obsoleted by synthetic machines, and people who see humans (as Kant would sa
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Because current AI leaders have read way too much science fiction, and it's constrained their thinking. This is exactly why so many people expect ChatGPT to turn into The Terminator.
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by skepticATX 3y ago
> I do however suspect that if you just add an ever so tiny (intelligent) human check to the mix, the use and outcome of any such tools will become so much better. I suspect that will be true for a long time into the future as well. I lo
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Exactly. I think that it’s very hard for us to comprehend just how much is out there on the internet. The perfect example of that is the tikz unicorn in the Sparks paper. Seemed like a unique task, until someone found a tikz unicorn in an o
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Output can still infringe, however. This is only talking about input.
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by skepticATX 3y ago
I agree. And this is why I wish that the narrative wasn't "LLMs will make you faster", and instead was "LLMs will improve the quality of your work". There are certainly times when you just need to pump out code that
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by skepticATX 3y ago
I think that tech companies will soon have to grapple with the fact that the majority of people currently have, or will have, predominantly negative opinions of generative AI. We too often get lost in our tech bubble. Of course generati
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by skepticATX 3y ago
> Except... you can run generated code to see if it’s correct. I have seen this idea in many different places. I really think we should stop saying it. Running code obviously does not confirm that it is correct. Even running a comprehens
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by skepticATX 3y ago
The reviewing that most folks do is a quick glance and a “lgtm”. If most people actually seriously scrutinized the code (which you should) it’d be apparent that the value proposition of using LLMs is not increased throughout, but better qua
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by skepticATX 3y ago
> but the programmer using AI will do. Where exactly will these magical programmers come from, if not the existing pool? That is the fundamental flaw with this argument - there are not tens of thousands of people with not enough skill to
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by skepticATX 3y ago
I have to agree. I don’t think that being obese is a moral failing at all. But caloric deficit does result in weight loss. Anyways, there are plenty of other benefits that come from exercise and a healthy diet, besides weight loss. Hopefu
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Great comment. The amount of anthropomorphizing that goes on in these threads is just baffling to me. It seems obvious to me that, despite what current law says, there is something not right about what large companies are doing when they
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by skepticATX 3y ago
> Try as we might, we haven't been able to eliminate drunk driving by humans I'm not sure that we've actually tried very hard. We could, say, mandate an ignition interlock device in every vehicle. Pretty draconian, sure, b
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Taking the top 10% of drivers would also be unfair, this time against AVs. I’m simply saying that factors unrelated to driving skill should be excluded. Things like being inebriated, purposely breaking driving laws, looking at a cell phone.
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Comparing autonomous vehicles to the average driver is always going to be misleading. It’s not fair to compare it to drunk drivers, or to the small portion of people (likely causing an oversized portion of accidents) who shouldn’t have a li
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by skepticATX 3y ago
This a very poor article that is based entirely off of a ResumeBuilder poll. ResumeBuilder has been releasing junk AI-related polls since ChatGPT launched. Of course, actual government job reports show nothing of the sort.
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by skepticATX 3y ago
> The key issue here is that people are worried that their private files on Dropbox are being passed to OpenAI to use as training data for their models This is only part of it. I don’t want my data being sent anywhere unless I authorize
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by skepticATX 3y ago
The same Hinton who was certain that radiology was solved? The same Sutskever who led OpenAI when they released a neutered GPT-2 because the full model was too dangerous? The problem with the AI safety argument is that it can be boiled down
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Eschatological cults are not a new phenomenon. And this is what we have with both AI safety and e/acc. They’re different ends of the same horseshoe. Quite frankly, I think for many followers, these beliefs are filling in a gap which wo
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by skepticATX 3y ago
The supposed migration to Austin was always destined to reverse. Austin is a mid-tier city when it comes to amenities, weather, food, and more. That works for a lot of people, including myself. But for those established in places like the B
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Exactly. Personally I’m fine with both: 1) Forward looking demoes that demonstrate the future of your product, where it’s clear that you’re not there yet but working in that direction or 2) Demoes that show off current capabilities, but are

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