gabbagool

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by gabbagool 1mo ago
Well, I've never been to the Grand Canyon myself, but what you said perfectly aligns with my intuition. Also, you touched on how even modern tech still falls short of the true experience. Just look at the history of motion picture sinc
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by gabbagool 1mo ago
Or, ask yourself the following question: If you read every single book there is about The Grand Canyon, and watched every single video and/or documentary about The Grand Canyon, do you believe that you have fully experienced The Grand
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by gabbagool 1mo ago
Probably too late for this, but I have argued before that language is a fundamentally lossy encoding of the human experience. We do our best to describe what we're seeing and experiencing using language, which is fantastically expressi
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by gabbagool 4mo ago
I agree with this whole heartedly. What's the point of even having copyright law at this point? What's even crazier to think about is that to use the latest versions of these models for which you supplied training data, you have t
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by gabbagool 4mo ago
My thought on this is that LLMs should be allowed to touch high stakes projects, but they shouldn't be left completely unsupervised. Here me out. Would you let AI manage your investments/retirement savings/etc. completely aut
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by gabbagool 5mo ago
I'm genuinely curious why you think Apple software is terrible?
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by gabbagool 5mo ago
The first thing I thought when I read the abstract of the underlying paper was that this sounds like "model collapse" at the society level. I don't feel super confident that we'll "soon" find ourselves in a wor
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by gabbagool 6mo ago
Just because someone lets the electrician (LinkedIn) into their home (browser) doesn't mean they can do whatever the hell they want that isn't expressly prohibited. If the electrician wants to rifle through my desk drawers, they s
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by gabbagool 1y ago
To this day, I wonder if Google knew that they couldn't be the ones to unleash AI unto the world. They clearly had the wherewithal and expertise to do it (Vaswani et al, 2017), but were under so much antitrust pressure at the time that