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by zoogeny 2y ago
My take is that this has more to do with the coming years than the current climate. I think it is just a consequence of the cost of getting to the next level of AI. The estimates for training a GPT-5 level foundational model are on the orde
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I think this highlights the winner-take-all stakes of intelligence. It also suggests that there is little to be gained by specialization. Building a brand might actually be more short-term profitable since you can swap in the latest AI mode
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Runway Gen-3 Alpha Image to Video(twitter.com)
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Seems like writing a script wrapper around ffmpeg could easily solve the first problem. All it needs to do is to read in JSON/YAML/TOML/etc. then parse them into command line equivalents and call ffmpeg. That is a kind of scr
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I think this is a good idea for a LLM wrapper app. I've heard the leaders of the foundational models say a similar thing: bet on the technology getting better. That is, if your business idea becomes less valuable given a smarter mode
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Totally tangential thought, probably doomed to be lost in the flood of comments on this very interesting announcement. I was thinking today about Musk, Zuckerberg and Altman. Each claims that the next version of their big LLMs will be the b
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I haven't read any Chalmers so I can't comment on his writing style. I have seen him in several videos on discussion panels and on podcasts. One thing I appreciate is he often states his premises, or what modern philosophers seem
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by zoogeny 2y ago
> On embodiment - yes, LLMs do not have corporeal experience. My own thought on this (as someone who believes embodiment is essential) is to consider the rebuttals to Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment. For now (and the forese
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I think you suspect that I am saying that you shouldn't like it. What I am saying is that this project shows obvious signs of being implemented with little care and shows very little attention to detail. You are allowed to like things
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by zoogeny 2y ago
A first impression is a first impression, for what it is worth. I'm a believer in the saying: "don't let perfect be the enemy of good". And I respect someone building an MVP and then sharing it. But it does feel like we
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by zoogeny 2y ago
This kind of node/edge based programming model is one I've been interested to see applied to LLMs. In some sense, we can see the input of an LLM as a node, the LLM itself as a function describing the edge of the graph, and the out
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Komodo had some promise, in kind of the same way the original hype about Perl 6 had promise. For its time, it had features that were not widely available in other editors. However, I found it to be slow and buggy. And that was compared to E
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I'm a sucker for text editors. I've used so many at this point. Notepad++ from way back. Anyone remember Komodo, the Perl focused text editor from ActiveState? BBEdit. TextMate. Sublime text. Atom. Visual Studio Code. All kinds of
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Some quick impressions: The favicon and page title are the React defaults, which shows just how lazy of an implementation this is. When I asked "can you provide me an overview of the case", which is the first question they recomme
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by zoogeny 2y ago
It went straight to my local radio station and I listened for 2 minutes straight of ads! It was actually kind of weird to hear ads for local businesses, like the pub just down the road.
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by zoogeny 2y ago
If the available options are: 1. Purchase an out-of-print copy of a scholarly archival study on ebay for $100+ 2. Load the original raw contents into an LLM and perform the analysis myself I think the freedom to choose would be a massive be
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I suppose that is only if you assume I meant "only trained on ..." which is a limited reading of that idea. But even if you were to make that assumption, I feel pretty confident that an LLM trained on 5000 years of recorded langua
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Sounds a lot like Telos [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telos
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by zoogeny 2y ago
It strikes me reading this, that edited archives of author's works is an antiquated concept. I can understand that back in the 1800s (or even the 1930s) having a giant box of paper would have been daunting to sort out, prepare for publ
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by zoogeny 2y ago
This weekend I caught up with some old friends. One of them works as a Registered Nurse (RN) and the other has been working in marketing for a small local clothing company for over a decade. The RN was describing a new AI service that her p
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Interesting, both Karpathy and Sutskever are gone from OpenAI now. Looks like it is now the Sam Altman and Greg Brockman show. I have to admit, of the four, Karpathy and Sutskever were the two I was most impressed with. I hope he goes on to
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by zoogeny 2y ago
This needs to be a viral tiktok. Just take the scene from 2001 and replace HALs voice with a chipper OpenAI clone.
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by zoogeny 2y ago
> neither of these thinkers are radical any longer I believe the question was whether or not those thinkers were indicative of "anti-collective propaganda" or being "locked inside [...] conservative ideology". I have
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I've heard of "After Virtue" but I wasn't familiar with its argument. From a brief skim of the Wikipedia article, it appears aligned in the direction I've been meandering for the last couple of years (in subject and
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> you've been subject to too much anti-collective propaganda and are locked inside your conservative ideology I'm not so sure about that. In fact, most recently I've been consuming a lot of Walter Benjamín and Hannah Arend
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I want to disagree with him and I want to agree with him in almost equal measure, I think that is ambivalence. My cynicism says that people like him, people who create psychologically dense pieces for the BBC, are actually on the side of co
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by zoogeny 3y ago
There were copious reference links in the article but the one that stood out to me and that I spent some time reading was this GitHub issues discussion on license [1] (but really on the differing opinions of two of the larger forks communit
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I know what I said about lacking raw intellectual power probably feels like a personal attack rather than a description. However, that comment is in comparison to guys like Peter Norvig or Donald Knuth, not random Hacker News mid-wits like
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This matches my own take. I've tuned into a few of his streams and watched VODs on YouTube. I am consistently underwhelmed by his actual engineering abilities. He is that particular kind of engineer that constantly shits on other peopl
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This is mostly tangential to the article contents, but I've been watching interviews and talks by Benoit Mandelbrot [1] recently. I was a little surprised to find his work outside of fractals to be extremely interesting. He characteriz

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