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by xg15 3d ago
Which is what "the end is near" type of persons have always argued...
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by xg15 3d ago
But if humans are catgirls, are they really humans anymore? Think about it...
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by xg15 3d ago
Yeah, fully agreed here. Most automation (such as riding a lawnmower and not putting a brick on the gas) is deterministic, in the sense that you can reasonably understand what exactly the machine will do when you run it. But some automati
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by xg15 3d ago
I love how we all just collectively decided that LLM decisionmaking cannot possibly be like human decisionmaking - because if it were, the consequences would be just too awkward. All that while still not knowing how either kind actually wor
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by xg15 4d ago
I think this is a new pattern (which I have also seen in some other submissions), maybe a sort of "extended Chesterton's Fence", where a person dutifully maintains a fence without ever asking why it's there, then at some
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by xg15 4d ago
There even was a HN thread about this anecdote. I remember though that someone there made the counter argument that, yes, the toaster will be fine, but the dishwasher will be full of icky chemicals that you don't want to have on your
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by xg15 4d ago
It definitely provokes some thinking of what we even mean with "edible". The author seems to use "you can eat it and it won't kill you or make you sick" as the definition. That's alright, but then grass and peb
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by xg15 4d ago
Ah, that makes sense. Rust noob here, so I wasn't aware traits can act on types directly without any instance of the type. Thanks for the info!
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by xg15 4d ago
> After this change (and on the 2024 edition), the compiler assumes that T should be !, which doesn't implement Default, and therefore causes a compilation error. If ! can coerce to every type, why not treat it as if it implemente
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by xg15 4d ago
> The hardware is only going to get cheaper. Is that so? Last time I checked, RAM was getting a lot more expensive...
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by xg15 4d ago
Even more opaque than the models already are? I take that risk. I also love how the labs are apparently screaming "Stop us! Please stop us!!!" at the top of their lungs while completely unable to escape their own incentive structu
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by xg15 4d ago
Work like writing blogs and drawing pictures?
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by xg15 4d ago
Yes, but that employee might use that increased productivity to do the stuff that's always advertised as the benefits of automation: Allocate more time to tasks that usually don't get it - or: go home earlier and spend more time w
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by xg15 4d ago
I'd like to have some info what those independent evaluators are supposed to do exactly - or which risks Dario specifically sees as being "unaligned". Evidently, with "pacing" he doesn't mean stopping the produ
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by xg15 4d ago
I don't see how the dual goals of "we have to make an agreement with China for mutual slowdown" but also "we have to ensure we will always stay ahead of China" would work. I imagine the first thing the chinese gover
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by xg15 4d ago
> The fact either badly aligned or with no system prompt limiting their action agents are run in their tens of thousands on non air gapped systems tells me this is purposeful intent for them to cause harm. To generate the "oooo loo
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by xg15 4d ago
Software can absolutely act goal-driven without having consciousness etc - every pathfinding or navigation system or chess engine does this. Lots of "old-school AI" algorithms have explicit modeling of goal or target states. (In f
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by xg15 4d ago
They are token prediction engines. They're also very very complicated token prediction engines that pull in an enormous lot of additional information and relatively nebulous internal concepts to calculate that next token. That make
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by xg15 4d ago
One "AI-ism" I noticed is that LLMs often just put sentences behind one another without using any connecting adverbs - and just leave it to the reader's imagination how the sentences are related to each other. E.g. in the rea
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by xg15 5d ago
Three of them were - I don't think the others did.
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by xg15 5d ago
I love how people are pleading to take the AI takeover seriously, but at the same time training models for exactly those properties that such a takeover would need: Extremely long-running sessions, "perseverance" i.e. the tendency
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by xg15 5d ago
> a model is gigabytes Maybe in the future, but right now, in my understanding, we have two things: - frontier models, which might be smart enough to self-replicate, but are also far larger than a few GB and need enormous amounts of VR
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by xg15 5d ago
Exactly. But even if the model got access to its own weights, it would need to find a machine with a sufficiently capable GPU, transfer the weights and install itself there. Basically, the only machines powerful enough that AIs could se
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by xg15 5d ago
Life... finds a way.
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by xg15 6d ago
In the method proposed in the paper, the signature is stored in the pixels and ostensibly even survives some compression. So if you made a screenshot of a signed image, the image would still have its signature inside the screenshot, but the
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by xg15 6d ago
I'm pretty sure if signing images becomes the norm, because cameras will do it automatically then social media sites etc will start to care - or at least be thankful for the additional metadata.
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by xg15 6d ago
I think what got me worried is the GPs take that "I expect in the near future all digital cameras to digitally sign the images they take". Sure, if you have your special, verification-enhanced camera, go for it. But if this goes l
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by xg15 6d ago
I understood the GP so that only some unique ID or hash of the original image would be included, not the image itself. Basically like the commit chain of Git but without the actual content blobs. You could use this data to prove that image
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by xg15 6d ago
EXIF data is stripped for a good reason - because it can be a privacy hazard. Suddenly this plays no role anymore?
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by xg15 6d ago
> For example, a screen attack still works: photograph a screen displaying an AI image and you get a signed photo of a fake. But it's always nice seeing big actors interested in addressing this problem. Yeah, very nice. So this wh

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