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by tjr 4y ago
Decades ago, it was common that "AI" specifically referred to rule-based, symbolic systems. If you were working on "neural networks" then you would explicitly say so.
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AGPL is too commercial? How so?
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by tjr 4y ago
These have historically often been thought of separately: knowledge representation was the data, and language was the interface. To at least some degree, maybe language is enough for both. Language doesn't just express concepts, but it
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by tjr 4y ago
My current opinion is that it's not so much that GPT is utterly amazing, as it is that language is even more amazing than we previously realized, and GPT happens to have been trained on a huge quantity of language material.
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by tjr 4y ago
One thing to consider: does ChatGPT yet initiate anything? It seems it only responds to input, rather than starting conversations. I imagine someone could invoke ChatGPT in such a way that this sort of scenario is possible, but unless OpenA
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by tjr 4y ago
At some point Sussman expressed how he thought AI was on the wrong track. He explained that he thought most AI directions were not interesting to him, because they were about building up a solid AI foundation, then the AI system runs as a
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A conversation with Sussman on AI and asynchronous programming (2015)(dustycloud.org)
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Certainly humans can be unreliable. I guess my concern lies in the "black box" neural network design, by which, even if it mostly works great, it could also trot down some path that makes it randomly do something highly undesirabl
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by tjr 4y ago
Not sure I would ever trust the safeguards enough to think this would really be a good thing. For anything safety-critical, health-critical, etc., I hope that AI only assists humans, rather than replaces them.
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Other projects can't use waterfall development because they would like to actually produce something useful instead of what was decided at the start of the project. It's a whole different world of software development. If you se
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by tjr 4y ago
Not answering for medical industry, but answering for the similar realm of aerospace systems: One big question is, does the proposed software tool assist a human engineer, or does it replace a human engineer? If a tool replaces a human
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I would offer similar sentiment for aerospace.
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Hmmm... makes me even more cautious to use its output, much less blindly rely on its output, when building safety-critical software systems.
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It might be worth considering, for those that GPT is helping a lot, what are you using it for? And for those that GPT is not helping, what are you trying to do with it? "Programming" is a pretty broad activity description. I can r
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by tjr 4y ago
Not exactly the same, but from: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQdBiVyh5C2/?hl=en Now that the cat is out of the bag, or, should I say the confetti is out of the… can?
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Why do you think it is badly needed? Not arguing with you, just curious what you're thinking here.
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Right, in this scenario I think it's more that. Who Daisy is (or if Daisy even exists) is irrelevant toward formulating a response. Which is still impressive!
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I keep being reminded of Paul Graham's "plan for spam", in that he devised a simple statistical evaluator, and was surprised that it worked so well to distinguish ham from spam. These AI tools have been trained on a great dea
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by tjr 4y ago
ChatGPT will eat up a lot of the software we use every day. I’m not particularly interested in using Uber Eats if I can just ask a bot to order lunch. Not having to wade through dozens of options on Google Flights or Expedia will be a welc
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A good highlight to an ambiguous question! Which knowledge, exactly, is not being made available? But let's say that an MPG format specification is available. Even other code examples of interacting with an MPG file. But no examples, n
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What does GPT know beyond what we have (directly or indirectly) taught it? Could it have figured out how to extract five seconds of video from an MPG file if that knowledge had not been made available to it? Would it have invented the MPG f
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by tjr 4y ago
I have certainly gotten value out of Stack Exchange and the like, but pretty little overall. The answers to most of my software problems simply aren't there. Nor are they elsewhere on the web. Which leaves me feeling like it's unl
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Rocky V?
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> me: write a y combinator in C > llama: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdbool.h> #include <ctype.h> #include <limits.h> #include <stdio.h&g
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I for one work in aerospace software. Even if I could get an AI tool to generate usable code in this domain for me, it would have to be thoroughly checked. Between defining the requirements precisely enough and checking the output thoroughl
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How well do you suppose GPT-4 would have done at that task had no human developed raytracing in the first place? Would it be able to derive the construct based on its knowledge of programming and physics?
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Right, I believe so too. I work in aerospace software, and, for as remarkable as the GPT code generation examples have been so far, I think that even if it could write aerospace software, it would be because humans have spelled out the requ
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by tjr 4y ago
I think it's interesting to contemplate the process... when an AI tool "remixes" existing works to make a new work, is it "merely" using statistical processes to do so, or does it "understand" what it&#x27
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Thank you!
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ChatGPT. I was under the impression ChatGPT was now running with GPT-4? But if not, then I stand mistaken.

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