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by skepticATX 3y ago
This result puts more emphasis on data quality, which might actually be problematic long term though? The vast majority of human knowledge is not represented in high quality textbooks. It’s not clear from these results but the paper seems t
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by skepticATX 3y ago
I am in general unconcerned with AI risks. However, AI should be permanently banned from use in war. There is no good that can come from this.
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Right now I take a “trust but verify” approach with using StackOverflow. I assume that users are not malicious/incompetent, but verify when it matters. With AI generated answers one must take a “don’t trust but verify” approach. And at
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by skepticATX 3y ago
My opinion as to how much economic impact LLMs will have is all over the place. On one hand, they're clearly impressive and useful. They'll get better, but it's not at all clear how much better. On the other hand, we've
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Genuinely asking: have our expectations gone up, or have we started thinking about it in a more critical and realistic way after the initial glean has worn off?
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Every house in my neighborhood came with a Ring doorbell. I can’t open my front door without being recorded. This would be bad enough if Amazon actually cared about privacy. Its a shame what’ve we’ve given up in the pursuit of “safety”. The
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by skepticATX 3y ago
But what argument is there to refute? It feels like Aquinas “proving” God’s existence by stating that it is self evident. They can’t point to an existing system that poses existential risk, because it doesn’t exist. They can’t point to a cl
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by skepticATX 3y ago
I suspect that in 5 years we’re going to look back and wonder how we all fell into mass hysteria over language models. This is the same song and dance from the usual existential risk suspects, who (I’m sure just coincidentally) also have
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by skepticATX 3y ago
Are you sure about that? GPT-4 falls apart on many tasks that humans find trivial, such as planning. Intelligence is multi-faceted and quite frankly the average technologists understanding of human cognition is quite poor. Intelligence is n
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by skepticATX 3y ago
GPT-4 is absolutely more generally knowledgeable than any individual person. Individual humans can still easily beat it when it comes to knowledge of individual subjects. Let’s not conflate knowledge with intelligence though. GPT-4 simply i
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by skepticATX 3y ago
This type of usage is rapidly approaching a Clever Hans type of situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans . An intelligent agent shouldn't need this type of prompting, in my opinion.
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by skepticATX 4y ago
I don’t know anything about quantum computing. I successfully answered a few true/false questions by pasting them into Google. The exact questions aren’t in the top results, but the answers are.
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by skepticATX 4y ago
I have to completely disagree with this. Where GPT-4 shines for me is when I have a project swimming around in my head that I want to work on for fun. It can get you off of the ground quickly, and for side projects the quality and correctne
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by skepticATX 4y ago
To play devil's advocate, we still have no idea how economically impactful the Copilot suites will be. I don't think this is the most likely outcome, but I can absolutely see a scenario in which these end up being minor features t
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by skepticATX 4y ago
I find it very hard to imagine a world in which software development is fully automated but business owners still have value to bring to the table.
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by skepticATX 4y ago
Did he actually say this? Do you have a source?
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by skepticATX 4y ago
Can someone with a better understanding than I have comment about the relationship between these results and this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09115 , which seems to demonstrate that a longer context length has dim
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by skepticATX 4y ago
It's trivial to demonstrate. Here's an example of me convincing it that integers on a 64 bit computer are 4 bytes: https://imgur.com/a/3pZ5xrG . And yes, I did have to tell it that it was incorrect a few times
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by skepticATX 4y ago
Am I the only one slightly annoyed by the glib usage of "exponential" in every AI discussion? I'd like to know what exactly is growing exponentially. Compute used for training certainly is. I'm not sure that capabilities
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by skepticATX 4y ago
If AI was doing work that used to be done by these laid off employees it should be readily apparent. So, the question is, do we have any evidence that this is occurring? I have not seen any.
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by skepticATX 4y ago
And this is why I can't get behind LLMs as a universal GUI replacement. Not in their current form. We know that users are increasingly likely to leave a page as load time increases. Now what happens when you have an unpredictable black