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by nicklecompte 2y ago
"Despite the best efforts of his words, his actions continued their relentless smear campaign."
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
This is completely irrelevant. McDermot's point was that scientifically-plausible definitions of reasoning were not actually being used in practice by AI researchers when they made claims about their systems. That is just as true today
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
The fundamental argument of "Artificial Intelligence, Natural Stupidity" is that AI researchers constantly abuse terms like "reasoning," "deduction," "understanding," and so on, deluding others and th
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Racket might be the best bet, especially since it comes with a graphical IDE - Emacs is a big stumbling block for beginners. Racket also has lots of tools that make it fun and practical for learners (e.g. creating static websites, simple GU
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
A lot of people are worried about Llama screwing up, and that's a valid concern. But this is also an Electron app + a few nontrivial Python scripts for watching changes to a filesystem, yet there are zero actual tests. Just some high
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Okay we are speaking past each other, and you are still misunderstanding the subtlety of the comment: A dictionary or a reputable Wikipedia entry or whatever is ultimately full of human-edited text where, presuming good faith, the text is w
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
To be clear he is saying that the LLM is not capable of justified true belief, not commenting on people who believe LLM output. I don’t think your comment is relevant here.
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Got it - thought you were saying vendor lock-in meant the standards were de facto not open (which seemed unfair, the standards are transparent and not unusually difficult to implement).
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Google’s poor testing is hardly in doubt. But keep in mind that the whole problem is that LLMs don’t handle “unlikely” text nearly as well as “likely” text. So the near-infinite space of goofy things to search on Google is basically like pa
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
There has been a lot of excitement recently about how using lower precision floats only slightly degrades LLM performance. I am wondering if Google took those results at face value to offer a low-cost mass-use transformer LLM, but didn’t te
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I think he understands a lot about ML. But he doesn't give a shit about how actual brains work. For dumb reasons, ideological and personal, he has convinced himself that machine learning is a plausible model of intelligence. A common t
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Am I misunderstanding what "open standard" means? Why don't vCard and iCalendar count?
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Yes, specifically it seemed like OpenAI was actively encouraging people (men) to have fake personal relationships with a chatbot. I am wondering if Sam Altman gave up on the idea that transformers can ever be general-purpose problem solvers
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
It seems narrow, but there really is no safety-friendly explanation for Altman et al giving their robot a flirty lady voice and showing off how it can compliment a tech dude's physical appearance. That video was so revolting I had trou
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
“After six months of investigation and $15m in consulting fees, we have determined that our crossword designer can easily be replaced with advanced AI.” [two days later] “Okay, a songbird known for its imitation abilities, starts with ‘r’,
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I can't help but notice that the meme starts with white comedians noticing how often it occurs among their (presumably largely white) listeners, and KnowYourMeme is quite unconvinced that "the issue is so common with black America
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Arvind Narayanan had a more fun and illustrative example last year: Narayanan says he has succeeded in executing an indirect prompt injection with Microsoft Bing, which uses GPT-4, OpenAI’s newest language model. He added a message in w
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I would assume Google search is using a cheaper, flakier model. But it could also be that some contractor spent 30 minutes teaching Gemini that Kenya starts with a K. This specific example is a well-known LLM mistake and it seems plausible
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
From The Verge[1]: Google spokesperson Meghann Farnsworth said the mistakes came from “generally very uncommon queries, and aren’t representative of most people’s experiences.” The company has taken action against violations of its poli
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
My fundamental problem with these studies is that they don't separate out reckless drivers (speeding, drunk, etc). This is a problem because widespread (but not universal) adoption of driverless vehicles might not actually address th
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Instead of taking 15 years to drop the "don't be evil" act like Google, the new AI companies did it in two! e/acc, baby!
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
The fundamental result of Fourier analysis is that we are saying the same thing :) Though I should have clarified that the kinetic energy is zero at the "boundary" (ie bridge). IMO which answer you prefer depends on perspective: -
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
It's not just where you pluck the string: most electric guitars have a "neck" pickup and a "bridge" pickup (sometimes a third in the middle). The neck pickup is closer to the middle of the string, and the bridge pic
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I think most LLM codegen successes is due to their translation abilities, which is what transformers were designed to do in the first place. Software developers usually solve problems in human language (or maybe a sketch) with general “whit
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Incredibly depressing to read this comment when I have tested GPT-4 extensively on simple finite group theory, and it could not reliably distinguish associativity from commutativity, either in prose or in computations, even for very small g
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Picture this: you're a high school junior struggling to understand simple free-body diagrams. You ask the AI tutor for help and it gives you a pile of bullshit. Unfortunately the bullshit is written in the exact same authoritative tone
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I was thinking Animal House when I wrote it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oCpwd0ARx6Q&pp=ygUbYW5pbWFsIGhvd... "Flounder, you can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes. You fucked up! You trus
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
This is just completely disconnected from my original comment. What if someone reads "drink fruit juice to clear up kidney stones" from an AI and doesn't have a question about the answer because they don't fully unders
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Jesus, that kidney stones one is bad :( It's funny when the LLM totally checks out of reality, but not at all funny when the statement seems plausible to ignorant people. (A lot people seem to subscribe to an ideology of "dumb peo
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
No, I tested the paid GPT-4 last year on similar questions (animal cognition) and it was so bad I decided it was a waste of money. I actually don't care if it's maybe gotten better in the past year, and I'm certainly not spen

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