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by tempestn 3y ago
Huh, the always on display on my S23 non-plus was only a 10% battery hit over a day or so. Still disabled it, of course. Also nice that they've finally added an option on Samsung phones to only charge to 85%, but it would be nice if it
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GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question(aisnakeoil.substack.com)
2 points by tempestn 3y ago|1 comments
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by tempestn 3y ago
> GPT-4 solved 10/10 pre-2021 problems and 0/10 recent problems in the easy category. The training data cutoff for GPT-4 is September 2021. This strongly suggests that the model is able to memorize solutions from its training s
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by tempestn 3y ago
Apps can open faster than a webpage, for one thing, which is convenient for a tool you're using all the time. (I say this as someone who resisted making an app for AutoTempest for years based on the same logic, but finally caved to t
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by tempestn 3y ago
Of course the mRNA vaccines don't make you "healthier". Health isn't a simple one-dimensional scale. They make you better able to fight the virus they target. As for not having colds, that's nice. I'm guessi
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by tempestn 3y ago
The negativity around this in kind of mind-blowing to me. I would absolutely love access to an effective pan-flu vaccine. I wonder if someday my fantasy of a universal Rhinovirus vaccine could become reality too. I can only hope.
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by tempestn 3y ago
Then what exactly did you mean when you said, "I thought the science had evolved and clinical trials are no longer necessary for vaccine development"?
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by tempestn 3y ago
Browsers in other phones sucked. I'd owned high-end "smart" phones before the first iPhone and ultimately went back to a flip phone because they just weren't worth using. Usability of the first iPhone browser was a hug
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by tempestn 3y ago
They even both have a near identical locale selector, with two big flags, when you visit from a Canadian IP. Makes me think one... drew inspiration from the other.
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by tempestn 3y ago
Even from a selfish perspective, I expect "solving" homelessness would ultimately save money for taxpayers, when you consider all of the police and healthcare resources that go into it now, as well as the negative effects on commu
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by tempestn 3y ago
It definitely requires a lot of support, especially initially, to be successful; indeed, just providing the residence isn't enough. And of course not all homeless people are the same. Some are simply having a rough time and really do
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by tempestn 3y ago
Ha, I mean it would be fairly trivial to output "a confidence factor of some sort". It just becomes less trivial when you try to actually make it useful!
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by tempestn 3y ago
If this continues, couldn't it represent a significant problem for the US? Not just in terms of ability to throw its weight around due to being the world's currency, but more concretely. The US operates with a persistent trade d
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by tempestn 3y ago
Yeah, I saw something similar in a reply to another comment. I don't think it would be quite as bad as that because it's not just completing the phrase in a vacuum though, but in the context of the prompt. So if the prompt was &q
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by tempestn 3y ago
I don't think this is the problem. The confidence of the best answer won't always be the same. Sometimes there would be one answer that's significantly better than others, whereas other times there could be a lot of mediocre
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by tempestn 3y ago
I was just saying the same thing to my wife today. I expected Bing Chat to be great - it's GPT-4, but then it can also use the internet to fill in gaps in its knowledge. But instead all it generally does is summarize your question in
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by tempestn 3y ago
Ah, interesting, that does begin to explain how this might be more difficult than it initially appears. Could there some way to define.. proximity of different possible responses, and sum the confidence for all the nearby possibilities?
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by tempestn 3y ago
My knowledge in this area is very limited, but based on the high level descriptions I've seen of how LLMs work (including the OP), it seems like it would be fairly trivial to output, along with each response, a "confidence factor&
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by tempestn 3y ago
Looking at this, it seems even more odd that no tiny banks have failed along with these larger ones.
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by tempestn 3y ago
Yeah. And in doing so, it will usually give you the correct answers.
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by tempestn 3y ago
It's not correct by accident. It's not generating responses randomly, but based on extensive training data. The accuracy of answers is very high, especially on uncontroversial topics like most of the examples in the OP. And the a
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by tempestn 3y ago
Doesn't this research present a very attractive fourth option, if it's successful?
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by tempestn 3y ago
The difference to me is that the utility of cryptocurrency was always mostly hypothetical. LLMs are useful now, and can only get more so. I do agree that we're currently in a hype cycle though; I just think it's akin to the 90s
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by tempestn 4y ago
Yeah, I find it's almost always best to just start fresh if the conversation starts to go off the rails.
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by tempestn 4y ago
Tangentially, I enjoy occasionally watching 3d movies at home and am disappointed that new TVs don't come with 3d when they pretty easily could. The glasses-free stuff that's coming is cool though. More substantively, LLMs are us
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by tempestn 4y ago
That's a good point. Obvious in retrospect, but I hadn't considered it. So clearly "micropayments" can work in some situations. That said, I still think when people are used to something being completely free, it will
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by tempestn 4y ago
But the vast majority of people don't want that! If there was a cost every time you visited a website, however small, there would be a constant mental load of evaluating whether each click was worth it. It would be a huge drag on the b
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by tempestn 4y ago
Agreed on both counts, with the added note though that minority government only works in multi-party systems. US-style split government is far less functional. My understanding of what happened with the electoral reform promise is that the
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by tempestn 4y ago
It's the case in Canada right now too.
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by tempestn 4y ago
Particularly surprising given all the embarrassing/reputation-damaging stuff that came out in discovery. Seems like they could have avoided all that by making this offer sooner.

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