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by vagabund 3y ago
We have pretty good clarity that Septimius Severus wasn't racially African. His parents were of Italian and Carthaginian descent. To portray a Roman emperor -- with no further specification -- as black is to intentionally misrepresen
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by vagabund 3y ago
Simply tuning the model to generate a diverse range of people when a) the prompt already implies the inclusion of a person with a discernible race/ethnicity and b) there aren't historical or other contingencies in the prompt which
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by vagabund 3y ago
I ran the obligatory "astronaut riding a horse in space" prompt initially, and was returned two images -- one which was well composed and another which appeared to show the model straining to portray the astronaut as a person of c
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Weak-to-Strong Generalization(openai.com)
149 points by vagabund 3y ago|201 comments
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by vagabund 3y ago
Associated blogpost from co-author and leading researcher in this area, Michael Levin: https://thoughtforms.life/meet-the-anthrobots-a-new-living-e...
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by vagabund 3y ago
To what extent can they lead research that builds off of existing OpenAI models?
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by vagabund 3y ago
As long as we're speculating from the outside, in a strong difference of opinions between Altman and Sutskever, I'm inclined to support Sutskever.
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Numb in China: Technoapocalype and the Chinese Language(samkriss.substack.com)
1 points by vagabund 3y ago|0 comments
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Announcing: BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster(twitter.com)
1 points by vagabund 3y ago|0 comments
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by vagabund 3y ago
I don't know, your easy access to alternatives that've let you not "look back" kind of undermines the argument that they wield monopolist power, doesn't it? And should FTC suits really be vehicles for shaping publi
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Twitter user appears to demonstrate Meissner effect in LK99 replication effort(twitter.com)
13 points by vagabund 3y ago|5 comments
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Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models(arxiv.org)
11 points by vagabund 3y ago|3 comments
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by vagabund 3y ago
Brief twitter thread with performance metrics. Looks big if results hold up. https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/16811139775001845...
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by vagabund 3y ago
I know this is a rhetorical question but with a compatible backend like this, could an app like Apollo pay the API fees to Reddit for historical posts, seeding content for the platform, and write subsequent posts to this new alternative dat
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by vagabund 3y ago
> The pandemic had upended global supply chains, making it harder for corporations to acquire the stuff they needed to make their products. This should have squeezed their profit margins. Instead, as the economy began opening up, corpor
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by vagabund 3y ago
The semantic understanding feels much richer than diffusion based modeling, e.g. the trees on the shore growing to match the manipulated reflection, the sun changing shape as it's moved up on the horizon, the horse's leg following
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by vagabund 3y ago
Reels and Stories
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by vagabund 3y ago
A lot of talk about agile digital monopolies maneuvering quickly to crowd out competition but little talk about actual consumer harm or extracted rents. Amazon subsidizing one-day shipping or Facebook rapidly building out new features may
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by vagabund 4y ago
May be as simple as that, but here's a review of such effects that presents more evidence: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7848227/
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Reddit users report Ozempic improving their impulse control in general(old.reddit.com)
3 points by vagabund 4y ago|4 comments
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by vagabund 4y ago
The body of the OP, since it was deleted: Just thought I’d share. Been suffering from severe ADHD & OCD for most of my life. It got to the point where I’d self harm, shop or do other negative obsessive things for a dopamine hit. I use
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by vagabund 4y ago
Ha, runs directly contrary to this blogpost [0] that's done well on HN a few times. > At its core, chasing motivation is insistence on the infantile fantasy that we should only be doing things we feel like doing. The problem is the
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by vagabund 4y ago
> In the deck, Anthropic says that it plans to build a “frontier model” — tentatively called “Claude-Next” — 10 times more capable than today’s most powerful AI, but that this will require a billion dollars in spending over the next 18 m
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by vagabund 4y ago
Yeah that’s fair. I intended my comment to be more of a reflection on the culture in general, but the motivations in this instance are probably different.
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by vagabund 4y ago
I've always half-believed that the relatively open approach to industry research in ML was a result of the inherent compute-based barrier to entry for productizing a lot of the insights. Collaborating on improving the architectural SoT
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by vagabund 4y ago
PDF link: https://cosmic-s3.imgix.net/3c7a0a50-8e11-11e9-875d-3d44e94a... "What's a mid-level exception?" (Initially stated the info wasn't in the provided context, but upon asking again, it got it corre
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by vagabund 4y ago
I've never had these retrieval demos work well. Either the LLM hallucinates content that could plausibly be in the document, or it's `reasoning` is so hamstrung by the constraint that it misunderstands the meaning of the specific
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by vagabund 4y ago
I'm not on twitter enough for the chronological feed to be appealing to me, and instead want to see the notable tweets from the accounts I follow since the time I last visited. There's no straightforward way to achieve this, but
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by vagabund 4y ago
You can quibble about the ethics of web scraping for ML in general but I think you're conflating issues. OpenAI and Google both scour the web for human-generated content. What Google cares about here is the learnings from OpenAI'
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by vagabund 4y ago
Google has no contract with OpenAI though. They used a third party site to scrape conversations. If the outputs themselves are not copyrighted, and they never agreed to the terms of service, it should be fine, right? Albeit unethical and e

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