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by thorum 3y ago
I mostly agree, except if you only learn this way, you’ll end up missing a lot of non-obvious features of the language. E.g. writing your own function to do something you could do in a single standard library call, if only you knew it exist
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by thorum 3y ago
Something similar happens at one point in The Expanse (one of the best scifi series of the decade for sure).
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by thorum 3y ago
Still dreaming of the day they use AI to enhance the street view experience. Being able to walk through a photorealistic simulation of any place on earth would be amazing, but the UX and image quality doesn’t seem to have changed in years.
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by thorum 3y ago
You’re probably using the old Bard model. You can try the new one, bard-jan-24-gemini-pro, by clicking the Direct Chat tab on https://chat.lmsys.org .
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by thorum 3y ago
What a fantastic site. I was surprised to see that India appears to have a denser web of powerlines covering more of its area than the US and was wondering if this was a difference in data, but no, Wikipedia confirms: > on average there
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by thorum 3y ago
It’s hard to believe ChatGPT would even work for this, unless this politician’s values and positions are identical to ones OpenAI have trained ChatGPT to have, the pretraining is going to leak through no matter what instructions they stuff
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by thorum 3y ago
https://huggingface.co/chat
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by thorum 3y ago
You might check out this list from espnet. They list the different corpuses they use to train their models sorted by language and task (ASR, TTS etc): https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs2&#x2
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by thorum 3y ago
It has a big problem with hallucination in Chinese, random extra syllables all over the place.
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by thorum 3y ago
I’ve found telling it to pay attention to nuance helps as well.
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by thorum 3y ago
> Furthermore, the study also reveals 21% of those with a 3G handset aren’t willing to upgrade, and will simply continue to use their phone without internet connectivity. Seems reasonable. Is this supposed to be a bad thing?
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by thorum 3y ago
My experience is that GPT-4 is quite good at most languages, including hard ones like Chinese - especially when paired with a “verification” step, where you copy something it wrote and start a new session and ask, “Is this sentence well-wri
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by thorum 3y ago
At least in the grassroots language learner community, there seems to be a growing sense that the most efficient way to achieve real fluency in a second language is: regular long-term effort to read or listen to text or media in the languag
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by thorum 3y ago
FYI, this is not a new project. Here’s an HN discussion from 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15399132
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by thorum 3y ago
> Despite targeted outreach, we've noticed that community members are not returning to use the tool after their initial interaction. There has been minimal engagement apart from a spike during a mid-November focus group. This indica
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by thorum 3y ago
Wonder how much longer Poe app can hold out against this kind of competition.
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by thorum 3y ago
The fact that it’s technically true doesn’t really help her. Getting hung up on the technical details of Harvard’s code of conduct just comes across as uncaring about the big picture issue, that is, the thing people outside Harvard actually
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by thorum 3y ago
> let's talk more. Unfortunately if that happens, we won’t be able to!
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by thorum 3y ago
My experience with other tools like xtts is you really need to have a studio-quality voice sample to get the best results.
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by thorum 3y ago
The analogy falls apart with AI, though. - American AI “safety” practices have little or nothing in common with best practices in other fields of engineering, to the extent they can be said to exist at all (most AI safety work focuses on ma
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by thorum 3y ago
Children are born with endless curiosity about the world and in too many cases our schools systematically squash it. I’ve never understood why the default assumption when we see a kid struggling to pay attention in class is that there is so
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by thorum 3y ago
Has anyone tried using an LLM for the retrieval stage? Instead of using vector embeddings, have a (small, fast) LLM literally scan the entire corpus in chunks extracting relevant sections?
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by thorum 3y ago
The average person’s storage needs will likely increase a lot over the next decade: AI models, AR/VR, and six-degrees-of-freedom video are very storage intensive technologies that are close to going mainstream.
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by thorum 3y ago
The OpenAI moat is private datasets, a sizable chunk of the best talent, proprietary discoveries (like whatever Q* is) that keep them ahead of everyone else, and lobbying advantages that will help them to survive future AI regulations. It d
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by thorum 3y ago
Apart from the advantages for privacy and Siri, imagine if the OS included a shared system AI that any app could query. That would unlock so many new features that are either impossible or impractical today.
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by thorum 3y ago
Anecdotally, I finetuned Mistral 7B for a specific (and slightly unusual) natural language processing task just a few days ago. GPT-4 can do the task, but it needs a long complex prompt and only gets it right about 80-90% of the time - the
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by thorum 3y ago
Important to note this is not a ruling about copyright infringement: Stability has not yet even presented a defense on that subject. Instead they argued that although they are a UK-based company, no people or computers residing in the UK we
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by thorum 3y ago
OpenAI said in Spring that GPT5 was not being trained yet: https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/14/23683084/openai-gpt-5-rum... Then hinted a few weeks ago that work had started, but probably not actual train
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by thorum 3y ago
Current ~70B models like LLAMA 2 70B are on par wih ChatGPT 3.5. The best smaller models can appear on par at first glance, but they hallucinate at a much higher rate and lack knowledge of the world. GPT 4 ‘gets’ things at a deeper level an
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by thorum 3y ago
I believe the primary outcome was users switching from the popular Apollo app, which closed down, to Narwhal which stayed active, added a paid plan, and rolled out a redesign to integrate many features from Apollo.

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