chriskanan

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by chriskanan 12d ago
You are conflating multiple things. 1) First, you are talking about positive forward transfer in continual learning. I've been giving talks for the past 6-7 years about how that community (I was one of the founders) went astray and was
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by chriskanan 13d ago
I'm an AI professor, and the same thing happened to me. I had written out contracts and specs for some novel algorithms to compare. And instead it created a new sandboxed environment with 20k lines of code to ensure we do gold standard
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by chriskanan 29d ago
Same thing happened with eggs in the USA with bird flu used as an excuse.
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by chriskanan 3mo ago
And all those reports of Claude when asked without a system prompt what its name was in Chinese it often would say Qwen or Deepseek, etc. I'd love Anthropic to say they aren't distilling and taking from every model out there, beca
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by chriskanan 3mo ago
They are doing ta tremendous amount of novel research where American AI companies have "war rooms" to study their papers and models and American labs publish next to nothing. They have to often do more with less. As an AI research
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by chriskanan 4mo ago
Did you ever watch Star Trek: The Next Generation? The current trajectory is like the Ship's Computer. It know everything humanity has learned and can do a lot. But it can't explore and lacks desires and agency. That's why th
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by chriskanan 4mo ago
Jobs are an invention of humanity. About 50% of people dislike their job. People spend much of their lives working. Poverty and inequality are a choice made by society if society chooses poorly.
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by chriskanan 6mo ago
Slightly more nuanced in that the reciprocal reviewer may have been essentially forced to sign despite having other commitments or may not have even been the lead contributor. Nowadays if a student submits a side project to a top-tier confe
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by chriskanan 6mo ago
I had lunch with Yann last August, about a week after Alex Wang became his "boss." I asked him how he felt about that, and at the time he told me he would give it a month or two and see how it goes, and then figure out if he shoul
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by chriskanan 7mo ago
I can see some promise with diffusion LLMs, but getting them comparable to the frontier is going to require a ton of work and these closed source solutions probably won't really invigorate the field to find breakthroughs. It is too bad
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AI Doubling Time Horizon v1.1(metr.org)
1 points by chriskanan 8mo ago|0 comments
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by chriskanan 8mo ago
This has been a major problem in hospitals where there are many false alarms and often concurrent alarms for hospital beds: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3928208/
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AI Is Not Just a Writing Tool, but Your University's AI Plan Is Probably a PDF(syntheticminds.substack.com)
1 points by chriskanan 8mo ago|0 comments
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by chriskanan 8mo ago
Same here. I’m an AI professor, but every time I wanted to try out an idea in my very limited time, I’d spend it all setting things up rather than focusing on the research. It has enabled me to do my own research again rather than relying s
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by chriskanan 11mo ago
I think we need to distinguish among kinds of AGI, as the term has become overloaded and redefined over time. I'd argue we need to retire the term and use more appropriate terminology to distinguish between economic automation and huma
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by chriskanan 1y ago
See this study, which is consistent with your thesis: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/814485 Essentially, it claims that modern humans and our ancestors starting with Homo habilis were primarily carnivores for
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Retiring "AGI": Two Paths for Intelligence(syntheticminds.substack.com)
2 points by chriskanan 1y ago|0 comments
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by chriskanan 1y ago
That's the practical reason for why one might care. Keep in mind that the solar system is rotating around the galaxy, so over time different stars become closer or farther away. As the Kurzesagt video points out, a supernova within 100
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by chriskanan 1y ago
A Type II supernova within 26 light-years of Earth is estimated to destroy more than half of the Earth's ozone layer. Some have argued that supernovas within 250-100 light-years can have a significant impact on Earth's environment
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by chriskanan 1y ago
Read the paper. The media is not providing a lot of missing context. The paper points out problems like leadership failures for those efforts, lack of employee buy-in (potentially because they use their personal LLM), etc. A huge fraction o
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by chriskanan 1y ago
This is so shortsighted. The US needs a huge increase in its electricity generation capabilities, and nowadays, rewnewables, especially solar, are the cheapest option. This video from a few days ago analyzes the issue: https://ww
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by chriskanan 1y ago
That's my assessment of the report as well.... really, some news truly is "fake" where they are pushing a narrative that they think will drive clicks and eyeballs, and the media is severely misrepresenting what is in this rep
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by chriskanan 1y ago
Where is the actual paper that makes these claims? I'm seeing this story repeated all over today, but the link doesn't actually seem to go to the study. I am not going to trust it without actually going over the paper. Even then,
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by chriskanan 1y ago
Sam Altman way oversold GPT-5's capabilities, in that it doesn't feel like a big leap in capability from a user's perspective; however, the a idea of a trainable dynamic router enabling them to run inference using a lot less
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The reasons Americans aren't having babies, according to data(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by chriskanan 1y ago|1 comments
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by chriskanan 1y ago
If they are going to do this, they really ought to corroborate the face recognition with fingerprints. Many people have unrelated doppelgangers, even if an AI algorithm was near perfect: https://twinstrangers.net/
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by chriskanan 1y ago
Is there a list of the papers that were flagged as doing this? A lot of people are reviewing with LLMs, despite it being banned. I don't entirely blame people nowadays... the person inclined to review using LLMs without double checking
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by chriskanan 1y ago
This will be huge in the next decade and powered by AI. There are so many competitors, currently, that it is hard to know who the winners will be. Nvidia is already angling for humanoid robotics with its investments.
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by chriskanan 1y ago
The game is only about 30 hours and has no micro transactions. It is addictive until you beat it. Easily game of the year.
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by chriskanan 1y ago
Different gyms have very different cultures. Try going to different ones to see if there is one you like. For example, Gold's Gym has a lot of bodybuilders whereas I've found the YMCA is mostly older folks trying to stay active.

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