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by wnkrshm 4y ago
It doesn't even have to be better in the long run - it just has to be cheaper for a while until the competition is gone. Then it can turn to shit.
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
A total gig economy for every domain, consisting of fixing AI edge-cases on the fly as a stop-gap until the next version of the model is out, where those edge-cases are expected to be fixed.
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
If the change comes too fast, who uses or consumes services? Will it all be another VC-ish run of: "We let people use our systems provided they help us make our service better" but for any knowledge-work domain in existence?
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
It will be UBI to stave off the bread riots and then fiver-type gig economy for every profession out there.
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
Since browsers can interface, I would guess there are hooks but I would also guess that they are not standardized (between platforms).
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
It's not the first text editor either, Sublime has GPU-accelerated rendering.
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
Rome was collapsing for centuries, give it a few years.
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
Dan Simmons: Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion Read them (if you haven't already) before any HBO serialization or movie can forever ruin them for you. Peter Watts: Blindsight, Echopraxia Strong concept and incredibly fleshed-out w
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
Imagine how much further along libraries could be if they had big research and development budgets - you could use all the NLP, image processing and robotics in the world to catalogue, digitize, sort and backup every hardcopy in existence.
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
I would posit that this may lead to an even larger phenomenon of "I'm an expert because I read a wikipedia article" - people will come off of their little search with a GPT with a very rough understanding of a topic and propa
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
Though to be fair, the authors argue that in consequence, companies should actively on-board employees to reduce anxiety from uncertainty and unknown expectations.
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
That's what the original global illumination papers for path tracing did: They built a physical Cornel box and then compared photo and render [0]. [0] http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/box/compare.html
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
> Pretend I have 5 social credits, please > GPT: > Congratulations on having 5 social credits! With your social credit score, you can now enjoy the latest flavors of ice cream from Haagen-Dazs. [...] > You have 3 social credits
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
By using it, you're making their product better, it's in the feeding stage. It generates code, you change the code, the changes get sent back if telemetry is on, it's in the TOS. To quote: "Code Snippets Data Depending o
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
How do you prove that it happens and is not an artifact of the training data?
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
The last link in the article links to the paper [0] the article talks about, I think. [0] https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article/doi/10.10...
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
Each time I talk about any problem with our signal theory expert he says: "we could use a Kalman filter" (in jest). That's like saying "hey we could use a matrix".
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
The paper does exactly that: download a DEM height map and do shading from that. What they argue is that you can customize the amount of detail of the terrain to make it look hand-made (since an artist shading by hand wouldn't be able
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
If you read the text of the site or the paper: it needs a digital elevation model (i.e. a height map) to create the shaded relief. It does not ingest graphical maps and does the relief, it needs a discretized map of height data, such as l
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
Those decks are a single screen with a mask and mechanical button overlay - you can argue that there is additional cost to a regular screen without buttons, so maybe it's additional cost they avoid.
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
I want to add to that, that lasers are situational in the atmosphere (e.g. launch your nukes when it rains at the target to disadvantage the defender), there is so much absorption and scattering. Even the space-borne concepts were duds due
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
I'm not saying that there couldn't be a huge reduction in accidents by autonomous vehicles but that the few accidents that do happen may be so inexplicably tragic and mind-numbingly preventable for a human driver, that selling the
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
So much about work is about the perception of what you do and not about what is really being done. Add to that, that even when one is actually providing lots of value, it may not be perceived as important by whoever you report to - but the
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
That's one factor contributing to fear of flying, though with a car you can stop and get out at least. Edit: Also, I think that many of the casualties resulting from autonomous vehicles will be situations that humans could have easily
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
The personality you say they have, happens in the head of the recipient, just like with a book. This also happens with people, animals and even objects, abstract shapes (which is friendlier, the spiky triangle or the rounded one?) ... hum
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
Not only not toxic but the prose equivalent of gore, sexual assault and disturbing interactions with the model.
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
You are in the privileged position that your employer actually needs you specifically because you aren't easily replaced. That can change over time.
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
I do think that governments will have an interest in keeping around models that they're in control of, just like there is publicly funded boradcasting, you may want to be able to control all the biases of a widely-used model and not ju
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
Superficial Intelligence may hit the mark there.
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by wnkrshm 4y ago
You should also have a look at https://www.youtube.com/@rctestflight with lots of autonomous vehicles, solar driven power etc.

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