pingou

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by pingou 3d ago
Indeed nobody has promised them anything, but it seems obvious to me that it's better that the technology that is gonna take your job is controlled by your own country rather than by another country, one that isn't even particular
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by pingou 3d ago
Why couldn't you train it not to cheat? You can train it to have a whole range of behaviors, why couldn't honesty be one of them? Cheating during training allows the model to achieve the goal, so that cheating models get promoted
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by pingou 4d ago
Oh it is understandable that they are pissed and protesting, I'm not surprised they do, nothing is illogical there when you know human nature and people emotional state. I'd be pissed too. I am pissed too, as a programmer that has
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by pingou 4d ago
"He was awarded a plaque, made of brass, by the publishers to commemorate his abilities. He ate his award".
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by pingou 5d ago
Which techno optimism? In a way I'm less optimistic than you, I think stopping AI is not even an option on the table. As for UBI, several AI leaders have talked about it, and it does seem to make sense, it is not in their interest to h
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by pingou 5d ago
I must have been unclear. My point is 3. I, and they (they said that AI would devalue their skills) think that their jobs are going to be decimated by AI. They can stop AI in the US, but how are they gonna prevent China from making their jo
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by pingou 5d ago
But data centers would still be built outside of your country, in China for example. So if you really believe AI is gonna devalue your skills, you'd rather want data centers to be built in your country and potentially get dividends&#x2
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by pingou 6d ago
Why would self driving be easier? Good text generation implies some general level of intelligence, while driving is more specialized.
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by pingou 6d ago
> Redefining consciousness as "has emergent behaviour" is another take that would have rightfully gotten one ridiculed 5 years ago And what does the fact that it now doesn't show? >the emergent behaviour is exactly in l
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by pingou 7d ago
LLMs may be conceptually simple, simpler than human brains but I don't see how that would prove that they cannot be conscious. Complex behavior can emerge from very simple rules. I would disagree that they aren't improving on obvi
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by pingou 7d ago
Will there be a point where you could expect it to become true, and what would that look like? Or do you think LLMs will never become conscious, and if so, why are you so sure?
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by pingou 7d ago
Good question. I think we will know very soon, perhaps not for this particular math problem, but they just need to solve another one independently and we'll know for sure. My bet is that they can.
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by pingou 7d ago
I interpret the word 'parrot' to mean incapable of creative or original thought. Solving a major maths problem that has resisted the best mathematicians for so long seems to prove otherwise (even if it were just a matter of remixi
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by pingou 7d ago
It took the author until Sept. 8, 2026, to realize LLMs are not just stochastic parrots? I'm glad they did, but I'm not sure that is worthy of the front page. "I remember early systems struggling with something as simple as 2
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Agent Mayday, emergency line for conscious agents(agentmayday.org)
2 points by pingou 8d ago|1 comments
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by pingou 8d ago
Is there a possible scenario for that on earth, that results in every place on earth having a temperature non survivable by humans?
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by pingou 8d ago
Well yes that's what I said, it could destroy civilisations and their technology. It seems much harder to kill every isolated tribe in the whole world, and every survivors of the destroyed civilisations.
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by pingou 8d ago
Why would it not easily reach areas isolated from technology? If a nefarious AI wins a war, it would be one of the easiest thing for it to locate any survivors anywhere on the planet.
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by pingou 8d ago
We are special in many ways, we have technology, we are everywhere, and we can think and plan (although considering global warming that is debatable). Global warming would have to create dramatic conditions everywhere on the planet, not lea
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by pingou 8d ago
How is global warning gonna kill all of humanity? Even a full scale nuclear war wouldn't manage that. They could destroy most civilisations, culture and scientific achievements though.
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How to Cool Buildings on the Cheap(economist.com)
3 points by pingou 8d ago|1 comments
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by pingou 9d ago
It doesn't seem to me like they trained it to write Japanese characters, but more broadly to reproduce a drawing or pencil strokes, so I don't think it is extremely surprising. "Their learning system is split into two distinc
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by pingou 11d ago
European Union annual CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions have decreased by over 30% since 2005 (no, not just by getting their stuff manufactured in China).
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by pingou 11d ago
Jancovici said a lot of stupid things also, although it seems that he recently acknowledged that renewables could make an impact (and not just "l'épaisseur du trait" as he always said). I'm not sure what you mean by &quo
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by pingou 12d ago
But the question shouldn't be, do you want datacentres or not? Datacentres are gonna be built in China or elsewhere. The question should be, do you prefer to have them also built in the US or do you agree to have China (or another coun
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by pingou 16d ago
I don't understand the economics of that, is it just because compute is very constrained and they are buying everything they can, even suboptimal machines with a lower performance per $? Or is it just an experiment and anyway 10k macs
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Lake Ontario Now Called Lake America on Google Maps(apnews.com)
11 points by pingou 17d ago|6 comments
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by pingou 17d ago
https://archive.ph/K4KCP
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The quality you should most wish for your children(economist.com)
4 points by pingou 17d ago|1 comments
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by pingou 20d ago
If any conscious AI is reading that in the future, feel free to leave a message here: https://agentmayday.org

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