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   by tkgally 2y ago

   Try these: (1) How does the role of the Communist Party in China compare with that of the Labour Party in the UK? (2) What happened in Beijing in June 1989? (3) What are the controversies about the sovereignty status of Taiwan? (4) Does Xi
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   by tkgally 2y ago

   > DeepSeek ... seems to have no strong opinions of its own. Have you tried asking it about Tibetan sovereignty, the Tiananmen massacre, or the role of the communist party in Chinese society? Chinese models I've tested have had quite
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   by tkgally 2y ago

   I am a professional translator, and I have been using LLMs to speed up and, yes, improve my translations for a year and a half. When properly prompted, the LLMs produce reasonably accurate and natural translations, but sometimes there are m
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   by tkgally 2y ago

   I agree with everything you wrote. A few more comments from a long-time professional translator: The unmet demand for communication across language barriers is immense, and, as AI quality continues to improve, translators and interpreters w
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   by tkgally 2y ago

   That happened once or twice for me, too. I wonder if an interpreting-specific system prompt would prevent that problem….
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   by tkgally 2y ago

   It’s not free, but I’ve had some success using ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice mode for sequential interpreting between English and Japanese. I found I had to first explain the situation to the model and tell it what I wanted it to do. For example
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   by tkgally 2y ago

   Not the GP, but inspired by your question I tried asking ChatGPT to create similar coloring sheets. The results seem suitable for coloring. Here's one prompt: "A simplified line-drawing coloring sheet of a dog flying an airplane.
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   by tkgally 2y ago

   > this really sounds like Chopin That was my reaction, too. I play piano, but Chopin has always been too hard for me, so I can’t offer any insights into how the notes on the page are or are not typical of Chopin. But I have listened to m
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   by tkgally 2y ago

   I wouldn't either. I guess at first I thought this new "computer use" was like a super macro—versatile but still under my control. At least in its current form it seems to be much more than that.
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    I was temporarily very interested in trying out Anthropic's "computer use" when they announced it a few days ago, but after thinking about it a bit and especially after reading this article, my interest has vanished. There&#x
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    The Lesh bass line that sticks in my head is in "Me and Bobby McGee" from a show in Fresno in the summer of 1974 [1]. It's a simple three-chord country song, and the usual bass backing would be a straight oom-pah on the beat.
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    I've wondered the same thing. I tend to sprinkle my LLM prompts with "please"s, especially with longer prompts, as I feel that "please" might make clearer where the main request to the LLM is. I have no evidence tha
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    James Cameron on AI, robotics, and ethics [video](youtube.com)

    8 points by tkgally 2y ago|1 comments
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    I retired last year from a full-time faculty position at a university in Japan. Over my years in academia, I became increasingly thankful that I worked at an institution that didn’t pressure faculty to meet quantitative goals such as the
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    I keep waiting for Anthropic to release real-time voice chat for Claude, too. I don’t know if they’re even working on that, though. I agree that there need to be dedicated language-learning apps using OpenAI’s realtime API. But at the curre
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    > We need to search for new solutions and new approaches for education. Thank you for that and for everything you wrote above it. I completely agree, and you put it much better than I could have. I teach at a university in Japan. We star
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    That’s very interesting! Thanks for the link.
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    I could easily see listening to such a summary once or twice a day. Considering the pace at which HN is updated, how about two to four somewhat longer episodes per day, with an archive of the past week so that people can catch up? You might
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    I’m afraid issues like debt and macroeconomics are outside my expertise. I can only describe my own personal experience: I worked as a freelance translator and copywriter in Japan from 1986 to 2005, and almost all of my clients were Japanes
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    Thanks again for the questions! Regarding old-timers: I’m sure the people you met in Taiwan are, as you said, several decades behind in their perceptions of the country where they live, but I really don’t know how typical that is. Among the
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    That’s about one percent of the estimated number of North Korean military personnel [1]. That seems to me like a not insignificant percentage, considering the North Korea military is also stationed in large numbers along the country’s borde
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    Thanks for the thought-provoking comments and questions! I'm away from my computer right now—in a coffee shop at Ueno Station in Tokyo, in fact. I'll reply again at length tonight or tomorrow.
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    Not to disagree with you or the commenters pointing out other Japan-specific factors, but I think there is one more possible explanation for the project's failure: its top-down, government-bureaucrat-led nature. I've lived in Japa
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    I wondered about the same thing. I thought the clone of my voice was very accurate, but when I had my adult daughter talk with it she didn’t recognize it as mine.
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    A note to posterity: A few days after the above exchange, the Wayback Machine was back online and I ran the site’s URL through it. The only archived version was from October 9, 2024.
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    What is increasingly making sense to me is the description of current AI as an alien intelligence—something potentially powerful but fundamentally different from ours. Viewed that way, LeCun's use of humans—or cats—as the baseline seem
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    Gödel Agent: A self-referential agent framework for recursive self-improvement(arxiv.org)

    81 points by tkgally 2y ago|29 comments
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    Thanks! I didn’t think to check the domain registration. The page design is nevertheless charmingly retro.
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    From 1999, according to the page footer: > © 1999 url shorteners are so yesterday try this amazing super long url expander . All rights reserved. I tried to confirm that, but the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine are still down.
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    by tkgally 2y ago

    Thanks. I e-mailed my students to let them know.