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by woeirua 4y ago
You're using the term AI pretty generously there. Let's not delude ourselves into believing that deterministic algorithms are general artificial intelligence.
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by woeirua 4y ago
If even half of what we're hearing about GPT 4 comes to fruition then we're going to know in the next year or two tops if the scaling hypothesis is true or not. If it's true, then we're going to have something very simil
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by woeirua 4y ago
How much solar could they have built for the same price? Just doing some very rough calculations, they could have built enough panels to output several times as much peak power as they can with the nuclear reactors. Even including storag
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by woeirua 4y ago
The single most valuable thing that Microsoft/OpenAI could use ChatGPT for, is to periodically crawl the sprawling SharePoint sites, Teams chat logs, and Github codebases for large companies. Having a customized ChatGPT for your compa
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by woeirua 4y ago
Yeah, I'm going to need some names here for companies, because there is no way 50% of the Fortune 500 have done _anything_ productive with ChatGPT in less than a month.
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by woeirua 4y ago
The line of reasoning here seems completely backwards. Type hinting should be used in libraries and other pieces of code where type ambiguity can lead to unexpected results. In my experience, that tends to be in "infrastructure" l
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by woeirua 4y ago
> By contrast, duck-typing means that the intricacies of which exact type you are deserializing into is a lot less important in python. How do you explain the popularity of type hinting in Python then? Type hinting arose _because_ duck t
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by woeirua 4y ago
I disagree with the assertion that quality and meaning are somehow related. Paradoxically, it is often the worst code that is the most meaningful in terms of its impact to the customer and business.
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by woeirua 4y ago
The way I look at it, is that if your job disappeared overnight would anyone even notice? A great example here is Twitter. Elon fired (by conservative estimates) over 2/3 of their total staff. Yet the service runs just as it did befo
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by woeirua 4y ago
These cost estimates really make me question OpenAI's valuation. Also, they kind of prove to me that most companies are totally incapable of making the investments necessary to get much out of this type of AI.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Propaganda works. Even when people know it’s probably fake.
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by woeirua 4y ago
The real solution to all of this is to just get rid of the overly complicated tax code. No more deductions or credits. Everyone just pays some % of their gross income. Stop using tax policy as a way to pick winners and losers. The tax cod
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by woeirua 4y ago
A total waste of time and effort if they do not require entire teams to be collocated. Why bother driving to an office just to sit on Chime, in an Amazon office, instead of at home? Which is going to mean thousands of people will have to re
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by woeirua 4y ago
Remains to be seen what the OTA patch will actually do. If they could make FSD work correctly they would have _already_ done it. So, my guess is more smoke and mirrors to mislead the NHTSA, and then NHTSA will come down with the ban hammer
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by woeirua 4y ago
You must be the Google engineer who was duped into believing that LamDa was conscious. Seriously though, you are likely to be correct. Since we can't even determine whether or not most animals are conscious/sentient we likely will
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by woeirua 4y ago
How long before the major news publishers band together and sue Google to put a stop to this? It already happened once with Google News, and Google's response was to pull article snippets. As the number of "no-click" searche
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by woeirua 4y ago
Customers may not care, but content producers absolutely will. Chatbot like interfaces that lead to "no-click" searches are going to get sued out of existence, OR are going to lead to the establishment of lots of paywalls that le
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by woeirua 4y ago
Definitely a very normal occurrence for a large, credible, financial institution. Nothing to see here.
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by woeirua 4y ago
1. Does it? There are a bunch of sites that mirror high quality content but I don’t see many direct replacements for StackOverflow. 3. But most people are asking ChatGPT queries that don’t require you to click on anything. Why do I want to
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by woeirua 4y ago
I seriously doubt that because : 1 - there is so much money tied up in the search -> clicks for ads business model. Content providers were happy to let Google scrape their pages because indexing in Google leads to clicks. They won’t be h
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by woeirua 4y ago
It's still pretty mediocre if you're being objective. The true hit rate is very low. Granted, it can produce some amazing things from time to time.
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by woeirua 4y ago
I never said it was a well run business. You’re also going to have to untangle Elons antics, laying off the account managers and laying off the engineers from the downturn in revenue.
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by woeirua 4y ago
I think Elon was stupid in cutting the account managers and salespeople, but clearly there has been no noticeable difference in the service now that all those engineers are gone. Hence the comment about not adding value. And if you read the
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by woeirua 4y ago
This is an unpopular opinion, but history from the DotCom crash tells us that the layoffs are just getting started. Turns out you can’t run at a loss forever, and when the going gets rough the fastest way to increase profitability is to cut
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by woeirua 4y ago
Remind me, what happened after the DotCom bubble imploded?
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by woeirua 4y ago
OpenAI will end up forced into a royalty licensing agreement with the underlying sites that they’re scraping. Every time they serve up a snippet from a site that site will get a fraction of a penny. As a result, OpenAI is going to have to f
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by woeirua 4y ago
That’s my point, you’ll never be allowed to get there. There’s too much money wound up in the current advertising pay for clicks business model to ever let this go unchecked.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Now that we’re getting a small preview of what ChatGPT would be like with sources cited, I’m ready to say that there is a 100% chance that this style of search will be sued into oblivion. Publishers already almost drove Google News to extin
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by woeirua 4y ago
> Or text messages that you can listen to in the voice of the people who sent them. Like voice snippets? We already have them. People don't want to use them. > Or the death of the audiobook business? Any book read in any voice yo
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by woeirua 4y ago
TTS has been around forever now, and it still can't replace a human, because to inflect the same way as a human does you have to _understand_ the context of what is being said and what _was_ said previously. We're still quite far

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