larryfreeman

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Are Trump and DOGE running the fed govt like a private company?(cnn.com)
6 points by larryfreeman 2y ago|3 comments
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by larryfreeman 2y ago
My 3 favorite non-fiction books are: * Mindset by Carol S. Dweck * Innovating: A Doer's Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong by Luis Perez-Breva * Fall In Love wit
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Ask HN: Geoffrey Hinton and the Loch Ness Monster
1 points by larryfreeman 3y ago|0 comments
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
Each time I have been laid off, the opportunity afterwards has been significantly better. Perhaps, I have just been lucky. After my first lay off, I got a job at Sun Microsystems in 1999. I was able to buy a house. After my second lay off
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
I think that we need a better definition of creativity. I suspect that ChatGPT is merely derivative (like a person who reviews all the ideas out there and attempt to pick the best ones) as opposed to original (breaking the conventions typic
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Surprising Associative Learning from Jelly Fish(cnn.com)
1 points by larryfreeman 3y ago|0 comments
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
If you are asking me. Of course, I've spent many hours on it. I have not seen anything that I would consider original. I am very impressed by the quality of responses and how well context impacts the content. It's seems most
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Ask HN: Is it possible that ChatGPT is not creative at all
4 points by larryfreeman 3y ago|10 comments
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
Thanks! I appreciate the explanation. I think that you put your finger on the major assumption of the argument.
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
I'm not sure why you disagree with the Chinese Room argument. I would be interested. I agree that Searle was solely a philosopher who did not take an engineering viewpoint. Searle's main point is that if I have a book that tells
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
I agree. The model is where the intelligence is which is the compressed intelligence latent in the training data. I am arguing similar to John Searle that the processing is not intelligent. The model is a Searlean rulebook. https:/&#
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
Agreed. LLMs process information on their own. I thought you were saying it was "obvious" that the processing demonstrated intelligence. My point was the level of intelligence shown is relative the quality and quantity of the dat
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
Let us disagree on what is "obvious". Given an input and an output, you believe that the complexity of the output proves that intelligence takes place. I agree that ChatGPT is more than a proxy. Unlike Clever Hans, it is process
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
I suspect that there is something else going on than intelligence which will become obvious over the next few years. There was a horse, "Clever Hans" who appeared to have the ability to answer surprisingly complicated mathematical
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
The best summer intern that I ever hired did not have any programming experience. He was a Berkeley student who had recently decided to change his major but hadn't started taking any programming classes. When we interviewed him, it wa
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Ask HN: Generative AI and “fuzzy programming”
2 points by larryfreeman 3y ago|0 comments
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
If anyone is interested, I posted details on my approach here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5455261.0
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
Thanks for the tip. Bitcoin Talk looks very interesting. I'll take a look at the different boards!
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Ask HN: Best way to get started on a technical paper for a naive idea
3 points by larryfreeman 3y ago|3 comments
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
To be clear, I was refering to this statement: > What I am trying to say is, it doesn't matter if the subject is actually conscious. All that matter is we (I), feel/think that it is conscious, or deserving of care and respect.
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
Not really clear what you are unclear about. My main point is that human beings have sentience and can reason about cobtext in terms of how an action affects others. Computers are following a statistical algorithm without any sentience or
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
I apologize for not being more clear. I find it very challenging to distinguish between details about LLP and "consciousness". My key point is that "human consciousness" is very different than ChatGPT. ChatGPT is stati
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
Sentience and knowledge is what I am talking about. Free will is what you do with that knowledge.
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
I am baffled when smart people say something like this. Without consciousness, without a stake in the game, the behavior is pure statistics. Statistics is limited by probabilities and logical gates. Nothing else. Consciousness is about
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
I am not saying that the left does not get outraged. I am saying that the mainstream media has not been able to capitalize on that rage for profit. That seems to me to be more the issue than an over-saturation of the liberal perspective o
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by larryfreeman 3y ago
I see the problem a different way. Murdoch was successful in many markets before starting Fox in the US. His formula was to go after the tabloid market with higher quality content (plenty of stories on scandals and beautiful/famous pe
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by larryfreeman 4y ago
I keep hearing this about abstract mathematics "never" having an impact because it is too abstract and relates to pure mathematics. It's not true. Mathematics is a formal system that provides insights on surprising patterns.
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by larryfreeman 4y ago
I believe that it is straight forward to show how Searle's Chinese Room argument can be applied to ChatGPT. The idea is not the "process" for building the rules but the "process" where the rules are applied. True s
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Fox News interviews ChatGPT about the dangers of AI(foxnews.com)
3 points by larryfreeman 4y ago|0 comments
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by larryfreeman 4y ago
We use Teams, Slack, and Zoom on Mac. Zoom is much easier to use than Teams for conference calls. When I use Teams for conference calls, I find the default never works for establishing a connection (I have found that connecting through the

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