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by tkgally 3y ago
Naive question, perhaps: What roles are multimodal models likely to play in the future of AI? The comments here and in the Economist article seem to be about only large language models. In the initial announcement of GPT-4 in March, OpenA
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The Case Against Travel(newyorker.com)
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That sounds great. I would like to try playing a keyboard with dynamic tuning sometime. I should have mentioned that I was a teenager in the early 1970s, and the only pianos I had access to then had strings and could not be retuned on the f
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When I was a teenager, I took piano lessons from a teacher with perfect pitch. When I told her that our piano at home—an old American-made upright—couldn’t be tuned any higher than about A=435, she visibly shivered. She said she couldn’t st
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More information about this movement is in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Apostolic_Reformation
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The New Apostolic Reformation(theatlantic.com)
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Some anecdotes: A professional translator I’ve known for more than twenty-five years has, within the last few months, seen all of his sources of work dry up. He worked in a field that required specialized knowledge and experience and for wh
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by tkgally 3y ago
Matt Wolfe’s Future Tools site is a good compilation of consumer-facing AI products and news: https://www.futuretools.io/ https://www.futuretools.io/news He also posts videos that I find informative: https
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Here’s the direct link to the video: https://youtu.be/B2h5WwrkJFg I enjoyed it immensely.
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Some news reports about such bots: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/19/i-learned... https://technode.com/2023/04/07/love-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-... https:&
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As I posted to another thread last week [1], I have been surprised by the quick rise in awareness and use of ChatGPT in Japan—despite its production of Japanese being not quite as good as that of English [2, 3]. Although I have seen discuss
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Anti-Hallucination Add-On for AI Services Possibility(blog.archive.org)
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The Internet Archive has many smaller donors, too. I use the Archive frequently for a variety of purposes and derive immense value from it, so I donate to it every year.
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I live in Japan and follow the news in Japanese, and I’ve been surprised at how quickly awareness of ChatGPT has spread in the government and the mainstream media here. The prime minister met Sam Altman last month [1] and has mentioned gene
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by tkgally 3y ago
David Foster Wallace wrote an essay on usage guides, including Garner’s, for Harper’s Magazine in 2001. It was titled “Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage.” Still worth reading if you enjoy—or at least can tolerate—
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by tkgally 3y ago
Nice! My first impressions were quite positive—the app scratches several itches I’ve had with HN’s UI—and I like the full feature set, so I bought the paid version. I hope that gives me the right to make one request: a native iPad version.
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by tkgally 3y ago
I added that constraint with GPT-4. The results: Gormen (noun): The subtle satisfaction derived from completing a mundane or routine task perfectly. Example: She felt a strange gormen after reorganizing her bookshelf by color, size, and gen
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I take a medium-sized backpack with me when I go into town. I usually take a laptop and/or tablet, a bottle of water, and a few personal items, so there’s still space in it. Most things I’m likely to buy while I’m out—a magazine, a ben
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I am a perhaps extreme example of what is described in the article. I grew up in Southern California, but I have lived in Tokyo and neighboring Yokohama since 1983. I can’t remember the last time I rode in a privately owned car in the Tokyo
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Sounds like you had a great philosophy teacher. Guided discussion about open-ended questions can be the most satisfying kind of teaching for both teachers and students. It’s also resistant to cheating with GPT, at least when conducted live
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Depending on the situation, a set of bullet points might seem insulting to your audience for other reasons. Here’s a real-world example. I live in Japan. While I am fluent in Japanese, it is not my first language and I am not confident abou
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by tkgally 3y ago
Many people find writing very difficult or are not confident about their ability to do it accurately. For people like that, GPT can be a godsend. If they need to write an e-mail or short report for work, they can just give GPT a few bullet
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by tkgally 3y ago
I tried that sentence and three similar ones, and this time GPT-4 caught the ambiguity. The results are here: https://www.gally.net/temp/202212chatgpt/20230508-syntactic-... I am especially impressed by its commen
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by tkgally 3y ago
> This one isn't surprising at all: it doesn't deal with letters, but symbols. It’s not surprising to us now . It was very surprising to me when I first noticed it, as it contrasted sharply with ChatGPT’s ability to explain as
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> Far more useful than getting a simple dictionary lookup. Yes. Long-time dictionary-editor and translator here. What blew me away most when I first tried ChatGPT, and what continues to amaze me, is its ability to distinguish and explain
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> ... it’s not suitable for serious productivity work ... but for videos and reading and Web browsing it’s hard to beat That’s my position, too. I’ve been using iPads since the first generation, and in the early years I tried a couple of
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I didn’t know what HTMX was and couldn’t figure it out from the comments here, so I went to htmx.org. This is what I saw at the top of the landing page: > introduction > htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and S
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> I do agree that we're currently in a hype cycle though; I just think it's akin to the 90s dotcom bubble. Yes. I remember attending a professional conference around 1996 or 1997. One of the presenters spoke about the Internet
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About a side point that the author makes: “We’re not going to talk much about staff, but briefly we can divide them quickly into four big groups: leadership (chancellors, deans, and assistant deans of various kinds; of old these used to be
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Long-time Japan resident here. I haven’t travelled outside Japan for quite a while so I don’t have a good sense of how payments work in daily life elsewhere. Here, the big convenience store chains now accept a couple of dozen different type

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