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by tovej 8mo ago
I assume those people are managers, have a vested interest in AI, or have only just started programming.
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by tovej 8mo ago
I see it all the time. If you're anti-AI your boss may call you a luddite and consider you not fit for promotion.
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by tovej 8mo ago
I have yet to meet anyone except managers be excited about LLM's or generative AI. And the only people actually excited about the useful kinds of "AI", traditional machine learning, are researchers.
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by tovej 8mo ago
Alternative take: this is all marketing. If you pretend really hard that you're worried about safety, it makes what you're selling seem more powerful. If you simultaneously lean into the AGI/superintelligence hype, you'r
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by tovej 8mo ago
Well there's your problem? That one always seemed very well researched to me.
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by tovej 9mo ago
There's ruffle: https://ruffle.rs/ iirc support is generally good, but some versions of flash/actionscript have issues (at least last time I checked).
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by tovej 9mo ago
You have to unwrap every array access? That does not feel clear to me at all. Also this would make every hot loop slower. The amount of safety features here seems excessive. The language is stricter than Rust. It's not very "clear
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by tovej 9mo ago
Ban AI products that cause harm? Did we forget that governments can regulate what companies are allowed to do.
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by tovej 9mo ago
That's not what synthesis is. But that small semantic note aside, if an LLM is used to trigger other tools to find new facts, then those other tools are modeling the "world" or a particular domain. Alternatively you could say
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by tovej 9mo ago
If it's an LLM it's a (large) language model. If you use ideas from LLM architecture in other non-language models, they are not language models. But it is extremely silly to say that "large language models are language models
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by tovej 9mo ago
A world model can be used to learn something about the real system. I said synthesize because in the context that LLM's work in (using a corpus to generate sentences) that is what that would look like.
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by tovej 9mo ago
It's especially important not to antropomorphise when there is a risk people actually mistake something for a humanlike being. What is least helpful is using misleading terms like this, because it makes reasoning about this more diffic
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by tovej 9mo ago
Regurgitating facts kind of assumes it is a language model, as you're assuming a language interface. I would assume a real "world model" or digital twin to be able to reliably model relationships between phenomena in whatever
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by tovej 9mo ago
LLM's have not "read" social science research and they do not "know" about the outcomes, they have been trained to replicate the exact text of social science articles. The articles will not be mutually consistent, a
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by tovej 9mo ago
You did not address the second issue at all. You are inverting the implication in your argument. Whether gradient descent helps solve the language model problem or not does not help you show that this means it's a useful world model. L
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by tovej 9mo ago
The Erdos problem was solved by interacting with a formal proof tool, and the problem was trivial. I also don't recall if this was the problem someone had already solved prior but not reported, but that does not matter. The point is th
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by tovej 9mo ago
In this case this is not so. The primary model is not a model at all, and the surrogate has bias added to it. It's also missing any way to actually check the internal consistency of statements or otherwise combine information from its
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by tovej 9mo ago
There's plenty of faults in this idea. First, the subjectivity of language. 1) People only speak or write down information that needs to be added to a base "world model" that a listener or receiver already has. This context i
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by tovej 9mo ago
Then the LLM is not actually modelling the world, but using other tools that do. The LLM is not the main component in such a system.
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by tovej 9mo ago
They do not model the world. They present a statistical model of an existing corpus of text. If this existing corpus includes useful information it can regurgitate that. It cannot, however, synthesize new facts by combining information from
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by tovej 9mo ago
No you can't. Your lived experience is not a systematic model of anything, what this type of memory gives you is a vivid set of anecdotes describing personally important events.
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by tovej 9mo ago
I've found Wiki Edu -edited pages with pages of creative writing exercises. When I have read their sources they were clumsily paraphrasing and misunderstanding the source. LLMs definitely fit the use-case of Wiki Edu students, who are
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by tovej 9mo ago
The point is that this particular type of exceptional memory has nothing to do with conceptual knowledge, it's all about experiences. This particular condition also makes you focus on your own past to an excessive amount, which would d
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by tovej 9mo ago
1) That's not infinite, just vast 2) Hyperthymesia is about remembering specific events in your past, not about retaining conceptual knowledge.
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by tovej 9mo ago
What's your point? Palestinians built the first Zionist settlements too. They were hired as workers before Labor-Zionism made ethnicity be a necessary condition for employment in the settlements, later in Israel. Israel has already gra
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by tovej 9mo ago
Are you claiming all muslims believe non-muslims are subhumans? That's far-right rhetoric and simply untrue.
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by tovej 9mo ago
Richard Dawkins is a weirdo crank these days who's co-authoring questionable books woth sex offenders about transgender issues. And the one thing Christopher Hitchens was most right about was Israel, he was an anti-zionist. And the neo
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by tovej 9mo ago
There's no activism because everybody agrees it's terrible. If your govt is already cutting out Iran and sanctioning them, there's no need to demand action. This is very different from Israel, where our govts are actively sup
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by tovej 10mo ago
I have a hard time understanding what you're upset about. "The destruction of Gaza" is clearly a context that anyone in the world can recognize. The statement is simply referring to that. Not everything has to be maximally te
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by tovej 10mo ago
The destruction of Gaza is obviously the context in which the war crimes and crimes against humanity occur(red).

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