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slidehero
13d ago
this is so false that Dunning and Kruger invented a name for it
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13d ago
> isn't related to usefulness or economic value which gets us closer to philosophical questions which I'm personally not that interested in. >In the same way airplanes fail the 'bird replacement' requirement, AIs c
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13d ago
>If there's big limitations on the overlap forever, then there will never be AGI. maybe. we'll see.
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13d ago
>I'm confused, is your argument something like "It's too easy so AGI doesn't need to be able to do it"? Do you possess magnetoreception? a stupid pigeon can "see" the earth's magentic field. why ar
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13d ago
appreciate your response, but it's still birds vs planes. AI does not need to feel emotions or have a heartbeat to be useful. It only needs to perform a task correctly à la Chinese room. >therefore cannot fully replicate human-like
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13d ago
which just brings us back to the whole birds vs planes thing. turns out that flapping wings is not the right way to unlock human flight. computers could count the Rs in strawberry since vacuum tubes. that measure is irrelevant.
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13d ago
> gaslight about answers to questions like "how many r's in strawberry" or "s's in espresso". this has been debunked too many times to bother rebutting. they struggle with those things because of the way the
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23d ago
>why not the planet? greed
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2mo ago
>I'm sure people thought calculators and, indeed, computers themselves were very Harry Potter nobody thought that
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2mo ago
> In this case, it's just a book that fools us into believing it can think and reason like we do that's some Harry Potter kind of "writes itself" book. at this point, for me, any comment about LLMs that begins with &q
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4mo ago
presumably most people running these bots are doing it for some financial gain. as long gain > cost the issue won't go away. It'll stop the ones doing it for the lols, but I imagine they're a minority anyway.
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5mo ago
similar story with the appendix. Initially considered a useless vestige, now thought to be involved with maintaining gut bacteria.
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5mo ago
>I simply see no benefit of a copy of very Windows-y app. That's cool, sounds like it's not for you then. There are plenty of people who would appreciate it though. I've been using N++ for a long time. I have tried just ab
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6mo ago
had the same thought. I've been a gamer for just about 40 years. Gaming is my "thing" I found the challenges fun, but easy. Coming back and reading comments from people struggling with the games, my first thought was - yup de
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7mo ago
Asimov comes across as jealous of Orwell's unmatched contribution to not only literature but also culture. Asimov never came close to having the same impact, maybe that irked him.
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1y ago
>Do you believe the results would have been the same under a Stalin instead of a Gorbachev? A little different if you're talking foreign invasion obviously. In Poland's case it was Poles vs Poles and regardless of the level of
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1y ago
>If they had a means to defend themselves, maybe there could have been less lives lost. dude c'mon, be serious. the response to "my house is on fire" is not "gee I wonder what would happen if I added more fuel..."
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1y ago
>but having known refugees from a tyrannical government my family escaped Poland as political refugees before the end of communism. Poland famously had bloodless revolution in 1989 exactly this way. Down tools. stop work and the economy
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1y ago
> It's _derivative_ work. fwiw, I mostly agree with you (ai training stinks of some kind of infringement), but legal precedent is not favouring copyright holders at least for now. In Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta "
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1y ago
>There's no reason why training on a billion images is any different You gloss over this as if it's a given. I don't agree. I think you're doing a different thing when you're sampling billions of things equallly.
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1y ago
all good :) I appreciate the discussion.
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1y ago
Fair points and I appreciate the heads up. I'll add those things asap. >If you're inviting teachers to add information about their districts and their students, you MUST take your security, your supply chain, and your disclosur
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1y ago
>I feel there's some valid criticism in here that is unfortunately presented in maybe a little too aggressive a tone. It's all good, I'm a school teacher so I have a thick skin :) >OP, I think this is terrific work; Tha
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1y ago
>This is a great idea. Thank you. >I've worked as a teacher and I think people severely underestimate the amount of time teachers have to prepare lessons. Yes absolutely. I was spending a lot of time in ChatGPT for brainstorming
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1y ago
>Perhaps if all the prompts were translated to a language of choice Yes you're probably right. >But maybe you never even considered making a multi-lingual tool I think there is a way to produce output that is in the desired langu
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1y ago
>but already on first glance there was a wrong image Yeah the images are going to be mostly match, but there is a "swap" button to choose more suitable images where the ai has picked poorly. >and some pretty ugly use of lang
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1y ago
>I've shared this with friends that are teaching, and they're definitely going to try it. That is so awesome and I'm really happy to hear it - thank you! >as we know the last 10% is 90% of the work yes, so true :)
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1y ago
Please rememeber that a slideshow is just one tiny piece of the teaching puzzle and SlideHero is not trying to be everything for everyone. All those things you mention are good, and necessary (adjusted for audience age of course) and a good
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1y ago
>I'm surprised you're allowed to do that in the first place. Not just allowed, but expected. >I didn't have a curriculum I was mandated to follow. Curriculum documents are not as detailed and prescriptive as you imagine
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1y ago
Thank you! I really hope so. I've found it super valuable in my own classes and so far the response from other teachers has been very positive :)
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