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> For us to consider a machine sentient, it needs to function in a similar way to us, or else our definition of sentience gets way too broad to be true. Imagine a more technologically advanced alien civilization visiting us. And they n
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The Chinese Room thought experiment can also be used as an argument against you being conscious. To me, this makes it obvious that the reasoning of the thought experiment is incorrect: Your brain runs on the laws of physics, and the laws of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA
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I don't think you can attribute this failure to a political system. Space is hard. NASA's Genesis sample return capsule also failed due to an upside-down sensor[1]. Fun fact about the Proton M failure: the sensor was designed so t
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I was one of those commenting about "stochastic parroting". For the record, I changed my mind. I now think that either these models are doing something much more advanced, or alternatively we humans are much closer to being "
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In Ypres, Belgium, there are still unexploded shells from the first world war being unearthed. Those are now more than 100 years old. Farmers there know not to plough certain areas of their land. I think the most recent fatalities because o
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"The new Bing also cites all its sources". That's a quote from the microsoft announcement. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-sear...
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The language model gets tokens as input, and produces tokens as output. Not words. And tokens do not correspond to words one to one.[1] So it cannot see these "words" you are talking about. The fact that it can still get close whe
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> force of good I think he cares more about freedom than "good". Many people were not happy about his "GPT-4chan" project. (I'm not judging.)
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This was not left out. It is mentioned as the "ultra-materialist" position.
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> Learning and remembering things outside the 2048 token context window It is probably possible to do this with fine tuning. Once the context window is full, it might be possible to convert the content in there into additional training
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> how does society / monetary systems change? What comes next? UBI at best is a stopgap. Money is an abstraction used to manage scarce resources. The fact that resources are scarce is never going to change, because we live in a wo
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I checked where the relevant files are when installing KeePass 2 for windows. There is a global configuration file at "C:\Program Files\KeePass Password Safe 2\KeePass.config.xml" but by default, this one just contains a directive
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Android, Pixel 4A
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OpenAI will store all your conversations with ChatGPT. We know this because those conversations appear on the left-hand side of the website where you interact with ChatGPT...
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When sound is disabled, there's indeed no sound... until I hit the back button. When I hit the back button, I get a blast of sound for 1 second.
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Imagine you are kidnapped and knocked unconscious. Then you wake up in a prison cell by yourself. You are now wearing a prison uniform with a label that says "prisoner N", where N is some number. Would it really be "trickery
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That would mean there will exist a factor million (or even much higher) more human lives in the future, than there have been so far. But then, that would mean we are among the "one-in-one-millionth earliest" humans, which is a ver
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You'd also have to fit the past interactions in the context window of the LLM, otherwise it wouldn't remember them. Fine-tuning individual agents in order to move memories from the context window to the neural network weights, eve
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This reminds me of qhanzi, which I found to be super useful for studying Chinese characters. https://www.qhanzi.com/
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Bill Gates' stake in Microsoft is on the order of 1%. Therefore, even when Microsoft buys a 100% stake in something, it does not mean that it is "in Bill Gates' hands".
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> I bought a meter and started monitoring after reading an article similar to this one. Which meter? (I'm asking because I have a bad experience with a device from Aliexpress that turned out to produce fake air quality measurement
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The paper about the transformer architecture was published in 2017 [1]. My understanding is that it took a few years, but we are now seeing the results of that breakthrough. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
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Their argument that Turing machines cannot be free from immediacy doesn't make sense to me. They say that "there are no actions that emanate from the historicity of internal organization". I have no idea what that means. Is t
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Here are the OpenAI API docs that explain how to do fine tuning: https://beta.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning
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Erdős was also known to habitually take stimulants like benzedrine and ritalin.
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> Probably more useful would be to install means to drive fixing CO2/H2O -> glucose using an electric current driven from external PV cells. Solar Foods[1][2] does something like that by using the electricity to produce hydroge
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"Prime" can be used both as an adjective and as a noun. For example, "5 is prime" and "5 is a prime" are both correct.
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> The heat captured is then dumped into the city's district water system Uhm, no, that would mean people couldn't get cold water anymore. The heat is distributed through pipes dedicated to heat distribution, separate from the
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> shareholders have to carry the can Shareholders hold shares by choice, so they don't "have to" do anything. If there are 22 years of records about which fines were paid, then the market must have already priced in this i

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