slaterbug

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by slaterbug 10mo ago
For the uninformed, what large negative impact has Robinhood had on society?
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by slaterbug 10mo ago
“…the only workable future to me seems like forcing agents/robots to be tied to humans.” This is what I’ve been thinking lately as well. Couple that with legal responsibility for any repercussions, and you might have a way society can
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by slaterbug 10mo ago
Excuse my ignorance, how do these companies evaluate their models against the evaluation set without access to it?
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by slaterbug 11mo ago
Do you happen to have a copy of that article? I’d love to read it.
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by slaterbug 1y ago
> Meanwhile, we have LLMs accepting bullshit tasks and completing them. Would you mind elaborating on that? I’m not quite sure what you mean.
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by slaterbug 1y ago
Like a supercharged version of rubber duck debugging.
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by slaterbug 1y ago
I don't have much to add myself, but there was a bit of discussion around this back in August that you might be interested in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831811
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by slaterbug 1y ago
There's a number of "robotics and embodied AI" ETFs out there that should show up with a quick search. I don't have an opinion as to their quality so you'd have to do your own research.
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by slaterbug 1y ago
I feel called out :)
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by slaterbug 1y ago
I’ve been daydreaming lately about what the fundamental limits of “intelligence” could be, something like the concept of computability but for AI, or even biological brains. Though I will say, surely the existence of the human brain (which
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by slaterbug 1y ago
What evidence is there that AGI will come “soon”?
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by slaterbug 1y ago
That’s a nice prospect. What worries me is the point at which I’m no longer a required part of the problem solving process.
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by slaterbug 1y ago
Scary.
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by slaterbug 1y ago
You don't program at all now? It's all generated? I only ask because I find myself on the tools most of the time still. The difference in how different people experience this tech is astounding sometimes.
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by slaterbug 1y ago
A great idea if you're looking to intentionally sabotage AI.
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by slaterbug 1y ago
Yeah, they filmed it on Ganymede instead.
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by slaterbug 1y ago
Of course not, I just think the idea of little humanoid robots being controlled remotely, running around doing deliveries and such would be amusing. The potential applications of this tech in war is concerning of course, but we don't h
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by slaterbug 1y ago
Or they’ll claim it’s no different from a person looking at something and learning from it, implying that a multi-billion dollar company collating and labelling petabytes of data without permission to be used as the raw material to create t
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by slaterbug 1y ago
I bought a new pair of glasses online on Saturday evening as I couldn't be bothered going to a store to try them on. The website had a "virtual try on" feature that would overlay the glasses on your face, and even though the
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by slaterbug 1y ago
Honestly, it sounds like it would be really funny to me.
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by slaterbug 1y ago
Whether or not it is AGI, it seems very reductive to classify something like Claude Code as "just a better search engine".
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by slaterbug 1y ago
Enjoy the calm before the storm, while it lasts. I’ve also been focusing on squirreling away as much cash as possible before I’m eventually laid off.
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by slaterbug 1y ago
My partner and I have basically decided not to have children at this point for the exact reason you stated. The rate of change at the moment is dizzying and I’m not sure that the future we’re heading toward is one that I’d want my kids to b
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by slaterbug 1y ago
Context matters a lot here - it may fail on this problem within a particular context (what the original commenter was working on), but then be able to solve it when presented with the question in isolation. The way your phrase the question
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by slaterbug 1y ago
Genuine question, are these companies just including those "obscure" problems in their training data, and overfitting to do well at answering them to pump up their benchmark scores?
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by slaterbug 1y ago
> Whenever we have had a paradigm shift in our ability to process information, we have grappled with it by shifting to higher-level tasks. People say this all the time, but I think it's a very short-sighted view. It really begs the
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by slaterbug 1y ago
> I feel like a lot of AI angst comes from people who place their self-worth and value on external validation. There is value in simply existing and doing what you want to do even if nobody else wants it. I agree on this point, and have
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by slaterbug 1y ago
This is digressing a bit, but I don't buy that space exploration will be more interesting than anything you can see on Earth. Aren't other planets / moons etc. basically just barren deserts of rock and dust? Once you get over
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by slaterbug 1y ago
You’ve intentionally hamstrung your test by choosing an inferior model though.
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by slaterbug 2y ago
Maybe it makes sense for you, however from their perspective, it's not an "irrelevant" part of the selection process, but the most important part.

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