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by sterlind 3y ago
I've seen a flood of voice cloning shit-posts, e.g. Trump, Biden and Obama at Six Flags, or all those remixes of The Missile Knows meme. The existence of audio deepfakes is well-known among Gen Z, at least, but perhaps less to older ge
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by sterlind 3y ago
which is why open-source AI, and affordable access to hardware, is so important. groups with access to powerful AI systems will crush those without. if competing institutions can build out equally powerful, competing AIs, it prevents any si
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by sterlind 3y ago
> In 2019, the Twitter executive for the Middle East, Gordon MacMillan, was unmasked as an active duty officer in the British Army’s online psychological operations unit Wow, so secret that he listed it on his own LinkedIn profile. His
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by sterlind 3y ago
It's infuriating seeing non-profits gatekeep datasets that were compiled with grant money. At least Elsevier doesn't present itself as a charity. I was recently trying to get my hands on the Switchboard and Fisher conversational s
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by sterlind 3y ago
did.. did you remember this? it's accurate, that's amazing.
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by sterlind 3y ago
I only went from Wikipedia. thank you for providing the other founders, I genuinely didn't find them (my fault for presuming it'd be documented on the wiki page.) like, incredibly naive of me in retrospect, but Ctrl+F Gaultier sho
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by sterlind 3y ago
I can't find evidence of this. it looks like RN was founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was too young to serve in WWII. He has said a lot of antisemitic things though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Le_Pen
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by sterlind 3y ago
Is blackface really accepted in Europe? Like, minstrel shows with white people putting shoe polish on their faces and acting like a bunch of stereotypes? saying "mammy?" surely not, right?
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by sterlind 3y ago
There are quite a number of AI firms in China working on LLMs. Actually, about half the research I follow is from Chinese institutions.
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by sterlind 3y ago
the BMW motorcycle HUD doesn't have text that pops up unexpectedly, as far as I can see from the demo video. quite the opposite: the HUD stays in one place, and it only displays speed and navigation info, and it doesn't seem very
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by sterlind 3y ago
in the West, "politically incorrect" means that a topic is liable to offend people. examples include HIV rates (LGBT people), racial crime statistics (racial minorities), shari'a (Muslims), etc. in contrast, Tiananmen square
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by sterlind 3y ago
that seems unlikely. the Streisand effect suggests that censoring a topic sparks interest in it. like, the American public was so skeptical of Jeffery Epstein's apparent suicide that "Epstein didn't kill himself" became
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by sterlind 3y ago
You don't even need an LLM. You can use Word2Vec, or even yank the embeddings matrix from the bottom layer of an LLM. And you can use CLIP and BLIP for images and audio, respectively.
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by sterlind 3y ago
HUDs like this are already common on fighter jets, and even some passenger aircraft, precisely so you don't have to look away to check gauges. Are you saying riding a motorcycle requires more concentration than flying an FA/18 Hor
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by sterlind 3y ago
the prosody seems a little robotic, and kind of jarring. maybe I'm spoiled by Bark, even in its rough and slow state, but is this really that much of a step up from Tacotron2?
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by sterlind 3y ago
Firing them wouldn't harm them more than letting them destroy their lungs. And PPE requirements are commonly mandatory: you can't set foot in a construction area without a hardhat, no matter who you are.
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by sterlind 3y ago
In nanoGPT, you pre-train a model on Shakespeare, and in 3 minutes it gets to a Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky level of fidelity on the source material. It makes up lots of plausible-seeming old English words, learns the basics of English
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by sterlind 3y ago
I'm surprised Stable Diffusion and others haven't cracked legible text by now. OCR has been solved for decades now, surely they could include some OCR term in the loss function while training it?
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by sterlind 3y ago
Right. I didn't know about his actions afterwards until you brought them up. That lessened my opinion of the man considerably. It's frustrating, because I almost feel like I'm on your side. I hated how Google limited LaMDA to
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by sterlind 3y ago
Millions of people have gotten access to ChatGPT and Bard, not LaMDA. Per other comments in this thread by Googlers, they found it creepy how personable and human LaMDA acted. Again, I'm not saying LaMDA is sentient, just that LaMDA ma
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by sterlind 3y ago
I defined sentience as experiencing qualia, then decided to back up my assertion that most people consider animals to be sentient with an example. Pain is the one animal sensation humans care about, so I picked animal cruelty. I chose chick
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by sterlind 3y ago
It's been a hell of a decade so far.
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by sterlind 3y ago
By "sentient," do you mean able to experience qualia? Most people consider chickens sentient (otherwise animal cruelty wouldn't upset us, since we'd know they can't actually experience pain) - is it so hard to imagi
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by sterlind 3y ago
Be the change you want to see in the world.
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by sterlind 3y ago
I found the discussion of meta-optimization in existing transformers to be pretty fascinating, but it looks like they're not the first to discover it.
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by sterlind 3y ago
there's even an episode about them making TV show based on the Stargates as a cover-up, completing the cycle of meta.
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by sterlind 3y ago
STL is to CAD as JPG is to SVG basically.
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by sterlind 3y ago
Composing pure functions is equivalent to defining a new function, that's the idea behind the set of combinators being Turing-complete.
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by sterlind 3y ago
kernel taint is obviously a DRM scheme, that's not a secret. GPL isn't a permissive license, it's a strong copyleft license that has teeth. there's nothing hypocritical about the taint mechanism - it's open-source,
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by sterlind 3y ago
Pyanodons is a unique experience. Everything has dozens of steps. In the base game, circuit boards are made from copper wire and iron plates, whereas in Pyanodons, you need formica for the PCB substrate, which requires tree nurseries to mak

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