thrwayaistartup

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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
> AI lacks insight and lack of insight is what can turn a succulent feast of a life into biweekly deliveries of Soylent. Does a picture of a humming bird lack insight? Does collage art lack insight? Do remixes lack insight? Does mass-
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
No. His critique is one of process, not of output quality. He is asserting the existence of an "unconscious human spirit", asserting that ChatGPT "is fast-tracking the commodification of the human spirit by mechanising the im
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
> A question is, is it possible to advance technology to fulfill the green revolution without changing the value of human creativity due to the creation/advancement of genAI? I have to admit not quite sure what you mean, and I d
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
> This technology is a collage tool, and it's great, but it doesn't make anyone a creator. If you believe it does, you're in for a rough awakening. Hannah Höch would like a word.
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
> we had a much better connection with what it meant to be human when we were tilling dirt and making clay pots and weaving cloth for each other Actually, I agree. I think Nick Cave is right about this. I do think this sort of alienati
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
Nick Cave is expressing a personal loss, and I believe that he truly feels that loss. But to me, this letter reads roughly like: "if I were the server or the bouncer instead of the performer or the writer, all of humanity would cease t
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
I agree on both points. Was just engaging with the legal aspect because that's what this thread was about. But now we've converged to the actual reason the author should probably care: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
...I think you missed the point. OAI/MS can sue the author or at least cut off API access. If that happens, the fact that OAI is under fire from NYT doesn't somehow obviate the author's need to cover some massive legal bills
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
Yes, but opposite conclusion. If I were the author I'd never do this because I would want an exit and this strategy + twitter thread wildly complicates any potential exit. Even though I don't think there is anything particularly m
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
And NYT is suing OAI/MS. Two wrongs don't make a right... or maybe they do, but that doesn't immunize you from legal fees or a botched exit :)
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
Or just... write 100 good prompt-repsonse pairs yourself. 2024 will be the year of synthetic data. 2025 will be the year of "you know you can use your own brain and type out 100 datapoints faster and cheaper than generating and filteri
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
The academic work is pretty safe as long as it isn't productized. The open models have a prime facie case to stand on. Using output is okay if you aren't directly competing with openai, even according to their tos. > (e) use O
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
This is a flagrantly blatant violation of OpenAI's terms of use for businesses [1]. I have two issues with those terms: 1. I think that eventually US courts will determine one of two things: that OpenAI et al are guilty of massive infr
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
I read this in 2013 and remember enjoying the back-and-forth. Some reflections, a decade of life experience and a tech cycle later: 1. I'm with McKenzie on the coworkers aspect of the dialog. More separation from coworkers is better. I
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
Only a relatively tiny sliver of PhDs doing top-tier ML research are in groups that care about publishing at corps the care about publishing in academic conferences.
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
> Honestly, is there a big difference anymore? Only a very small subset of industry cares about academic publishing, and even within that subset it's only a fraction of groups at a fraction of corps that consider publishing a prim
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
Hence "lower bound".
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
Or just leave academia. In the US at least, the job is like 80% government contracting and 20% teaching. Teaching is great, so there's that. But literally every company will let your ad junct, and Professor of Practice usually pays mor
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
The open secret is that top-quartile R1 CS faculty positions aren't coveted anymore and don't attract the best like they used to. The choice is now between increasingly tenuous/meaningless tenure after 5-10 years and a $500K&
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
the obvious: the manager is being sloppy. Whether they are correct or not is irrelevant; thinking and writing clearly about these issues is literally this person's entire day job. A sloppy report is the tip of an iceberg of sloppier th
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
>> Programming requires a lot more formal rigor than mathematical proof writing. > This is is just wrong? Syntax rigour has almost nothing to do with correctness. 1. It's all fine and well to wave your hand at "Syntax
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
I think you entirely missed the point. GP put it well: >> They are conceptually/abstractly rigorous, but in "implementation" are incredibly sloppy. Maturity in concept-space and the ability to reason abstractly can be
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
My driving commute is 20 minutes. My cycling commute is 35 minutes (with significant effort). The average drive-tru time at Starbucks is 5 minutes. Add in a 5 minute detour off the optimal driving path, and another few since commuting hours
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
Universities do not have a monopoly on education or on learning. You can go teach someone today, no questions asked. You can even charge them for the favor, if you want. Universities DO have a monopoly on credentialing. Credentialing, contr
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
> overpriced would be if it costs $8k but is sold at $12k. Instead the pricing is crippling, and instead of 8k it's 48k The average college tuition and fees at four-year schools in 2020-2021 was $19,020. > and the average stu
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
Most comments here are completely missing the point: remote learning during the pandemic era was worse than useless. As a result, the pandemic era created a HUGE bifurcation in the student population between autodidacts and non-autodidacts.
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
Laws are certainly up for philosophical debate, but at least in the USA, that debate typically has to happen in the legislature rather than the judiciary. More importantly, though, most judges are not philosophers.
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
> including mechnaical duplication with automatic alterations to evade detection while continuing to reproduce protect elements if the original. That's super interesting and is news to me. Thanks for sharing. Would you mind linkin
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
> Humans have done so for millenia before This is categorically false for both software and movies. For other media, this ignores the effect of zero-effort copying.
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by thrwayaistartup 3y ago
Saying that an entire team is unfamiliar with an IC's tech stack is indeed weird in most cases. But it can make sense, and largely depends on the relationship between the team and the person involved. A good example from a recent gig:

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