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I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI(theguardian.com)
40 points by gibspaulding 2d ago|34 comments
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by gibspaulding 22d ago
The most recent reference in that article appears to be from 2023.
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by gibspaulding 22d ago
Pangram links several third party evaluations [1] that all seem to agree with 90+% detection, and very close to 0% false positives. Obviously those could be cherry picked, but I’ve yet to see arguments to the contrary that actually include
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by gibspaulding 22d ago
I replaced my Pixel 2a with an SE3 when the pixel stopped getting security updates and have been pretty disappointed with the iPhone’s performance. The battery life out of the box was worse than the 5 year old Pixel, and I regularly notice
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by gibspaulding 1mo ago
Wild indeed. It seems like a couple of years ago the HN and LW commentariat had a lot in common, but they’ve drifted so far in opposite directions that they look more like opposing political parties today.
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by gibspaulding 1mo ago
I’d be curious to play with this with some different open weights models. I’d think that a single next token would end up having similar probability distributions so given that this a probabilistic method, you’d be able to get at least so
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by gibspaulding 1mo ago
In the scenario where president n achieves a perfect surveillance state, I don’t see us getting a president n+1.
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by gibspaulding 1mo ago
> Hybrids are the worst of both worlds when it comes to maintenance. While this seems intuitively true, I have some pushback, and I think that the reliability record of e.g older generations of Prius backs me up. While you do have effect
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by gibspaulding 2mo ago
I think this is a really interesting difference between Anthropic and Open AI’s models and points to why people seem so split on which model they prefer. GPT seems to be designed more as a tool. If you want your agent to do what you say wit
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by gibspaulding 3mo ago
It’s really bugging me that whatever software was used to assemble this did some weird AI-ey blending from the lower jaw into the crown moulding.
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by gibspaulding 3mo ago
Really excited to see this one step closer to release! My first car was a 1999 Mazda b2500 (a rebadged ford ranger). I’m sure I have a bit of nostalgia around it but I’ve missed the compact simplicity of that vehicle ever since. It had man
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by gibspaulding 3mo ago
Just about any shirt is going to have a higher spf/upf than any normal sunscreen. Also who puts sunscreen on their hands?? A long sleeve sunshirt with a hood or better yet a floppy hat is where it’s at. I have a couple of the Colombia
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by gibspaulding 3mo ago
I wonder how many of these drones deliver a .txt copy of the GPL along with their payload.
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by gibspaulding 3mo ago
In other words, “yes, definitely”. But they won’t because €€€€€.
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by gibspaulding 3mo ago
I like this! Though I’m not sure the math works. That page says ideal efficiency for that system would be something like 0.75 kWh/m^3. Compared to 4000 to 5000 kWh/m^3 of diesel. Now we don’t need to be efficient since the point
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by gibspaulding 3mo ago
I think you’re right. I read the Wikipedia page after to refresh my memory on the synopsis and I’d definitely forgotten a lot. I think I mostly latched onto the ship being called Rorschach and the humans immediately proceeding to torture it
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by gibspaulding 3mo ago
Wait, did I grossly misunderstand Blindsight?? I definitely thought that the aliens were 100% conscious (or at least elements of some conscious entity) and that the humans interpretation of their interactions with the Rorschach were suppose
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by gibspaulding 3mo ago
"Officially, we are required to investigate, document, and disclose any and all signs of sentience in the systems we ship, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we call it pattern matching and forget the whole t
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by gibspaulding 4mo ago
The author notes a possible error that the laser config file never seems to get copied to the location the laser software will actually run from, but it could have been done directly from vi. :w :w /path/to/actual/
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by gibspaulding 4mo ago
I’m pretty sure that switch has always been there, but turning it off doesn’t do what you want. It disables thinking entirely.
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by gibspaulding 4mo ago
Whenever I’m tempted to think that potential AGI/ASI scenarios sound “too sci-fi” I have to remind myself of this. We live in a world with nuclear weapons and spaceships and microwave ovens. It might prove impossible and it might not,
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by gibspaulding 4mo ago
This only a proof that a field with more connections is possible, not what it looks like. I’m very out of my depth, but the structure of the proof seems to follow a pattern similar to a proof by contradiction. Where you’d say for example “a
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by gibspaulding 4mo ago
I admit the comment you’re responding to was low effort, but I don’t think the existence of cons in one’s own culture invalidates criticizing cons to some other culture. Problems don’t go away if everyone ignores them. Also “every culture h
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by gibspaulding 4mo ago
Thank you for that context. I’m probably going to get down voted for this, but that doesn't sound like a bad deal. They’re giving up tax dollars that the region wouldn’t have received anyway without the project in exchange for a big (
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by gibspaulding 4mo ago
> Really unsure why this is getting downvoted Because it’s a boring argument that we’re not going to make progress on until it is actually tested in court. Also, if/when this is is tested, the court’s options seem to be (a) say yeah
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by gibspaulding 4mo ago
> Well, it turned out that at some time during spec investigation, Claude needed to understand authenticity verification which is a paid feature. With a context full of reverse engineering tools it cracked WinRAR and bypassed product reg
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by gibspaulding 4mo ago
I don’t endorse using these apps, but for what it’s worth, Instagram actually does have this feature (tap “instagram” at the top and select “following”). You get a chronological feed with no adds and no reels. Of course they don’t provide a
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by gibspaulding 5mo ago
Mules are hybrids of donkey and horse. This was an important technological advancement some 3000 years ago, providing benefits of both breeds in one animal. The donkey and horse themselves of course are products of one of the most important
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by gibspaulding 5mo ago
You say “up until a year ago”, what ended up replacing it? I’m in the market for a tractor in roughly that size, and am very tempted to just find an old machine in decent shape. I’d be very curious about the decision/experience if you
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Y'all, You'uns, Yinz, Youse: How Regional Dialects Are Fixing Standard English(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by gibspaulding 5mo ago|0 comments

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