djwide

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by djwide 2mo ago
I wrote a short essay arguing that the history of software development is fundamentally the history of moving up successive layers of abstraction. Machine code gave way to assembly. Assembly gave way to compiled languages. Then operating sy
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Wrangling with Explosive AI Growth – Combatting Catastrophism(studentreview.hks.harvard.edu)
2 points by djwide 2mo ago|0 comments
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by djwide 2mo ago
Large Language Model (LLM)-enhanced authorship is accelerating at an extraordinary pace. Within academia, the share of papers crediting an LLM tool or model has grown exponentially since 2023. In software development, over half of all new c
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by djwide 8mo ago
I'm saying there's something structurally different form autonomous systems generally and from an LLM corpus which has all of the information in one place and at least in theory extractable by one user.
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by djwide 8mo ago
I point that out a little bit when I refer to agencies being discouraged from sharing information. The CIA may be worried about losing HUMINT data to the NSA for example. You may be referring to them worrying about compartmentalizing the i
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by djwide 8mo ago
Can anyone tell me why the comment gets downvoted. The article is past character count - I have to link.
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by djwide 8mo ago
Thanks for the comment. Interesting to think about but I am also skeptical of who will be doing the "collecting" and "synthesizing". Both tasks are potentially loaded with political bias. Perhaps it's better than o
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by djwide 8mo ago
There's not a direct tie to what I'm trying to sell admittedly. I just thought it was a worthwhile topic of discussion - it doesn't need to be politically divisive and I might as well post it on my company site. I don't
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OracleGPT: Thought Experiment on an AI Powered Executive(senteguard.com)
60 points by djwide 8mo ago|51 comments
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by djwide 8mo ago
AlphaGo was trained on old games and then presented with a game it had never seen before. It came up with a move that a human would not have played.
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by djwide 8mo ago
Either way, not sure protectionism and siphoning money to frontier model owners will help us. But also by that argument they would have beaten us to frontier model tech as well. Their education system appeared better than ours 20 years ago.
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American Closed Source vs. Chinese Open Source: A False Dichotomy(senteguard.com)
14 points by djwide 8mo ago|4 comments
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by djwide 8mo ago
It’s a call to patriotism. China versus America. “Who will you back?” This has become a common plea from the Silicon Valley elite over the last six months. I heard the move up close at the Harvard Kennedy School, where a visiting Eric Schmi
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Nailing Jell-O to the Wall, Again. Why China Will Struggle to Contain LLMs(senteguard.com)
2 points by djwide 8mo ago|1 comments
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by djwide 8mo ago
In 2000, President Bill Clinton famously looked at Beijing’s early internet controls and quipped: “Good luck. That’s sort of like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.” So far he’s been proven wrong. The CCP didn’t just contain the internet; i
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by djwide 8mo ago
What do they (or you) have to say about the Lee Sedol AlphaGo move 78. It seems like that was "new knowledge." Are games just iterable and the real world idea space not? I am playing with these ideas a little.
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by djwide 8mo ago
With LLMs the synthesis cycles could happen at a much higher frequency. Decades condensed to weeks or days? I imagine possible buffers on that conjecture synthesis being epxerimentation and acceptance by the scientific community. AIs can
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Living with LLMs Everywhere – How Ambient LLMs Negate Security Policy
1 points by djwide 8mo ago|0 comments