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10,040karma·2,605submissions·May 27, 2017
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Another thing Trek (and other SF) didn't predict was that AI would speak with Bay Area vocal fry. Someone should re-dub the Enterprise computer's lines with it.
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HN readers might be interested to know that the machine's codebase was recently ported to C++ 17 from Fortran. It was a nightmare to maintain!
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>higher less qualified candidates Ironique.
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I recommend this article on the kinds of things people actually say on their deathbeds: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/01/how-do-pe... It usually …
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Also: https://xkcd.com/1425/
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Is there any actual evidence that the reasoning tokens output by current models actually represent the computation happening in the hidden layers? In both cases, the model is doing a ton of processing…
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There are plenty of self-taught people in the open source space making highly reliable software.
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>This is a bitter lesson about the interplay between techlash activism and big tech power structures. Twenty years of privacy complaints have only made tech companies more powerful. So we should ha…
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Hey, I'm interested in the details of this. How many persons in the puzzle? Did it include nested statements, conditionals and such? If the puzzle generator is hosted anywhere, I'd love to h…
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Thanks for the amusing mental image.
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Move 37.
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Big Tech Podcast listener?
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You're gonna need to ground those labels in something physical at some point. No one's going to let an LLM near anything important until then.
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>this $300Bn company Watch this space.
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> quick, intuitive decisions, focuses on what's novel/unknown Wouldn't it be the exact opposite? That is, novel stimuli requires more extensive processing at higher levels of cogniti…
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But can o3 write a symphony? Seriously though, I'd like to hear suggestions on how to automatically evaluate an AI model's creativity, no humans in the loop.
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It's been found [0] that slightly varying Putnam problems causes a 30% drop in o1-Preview accuracy, but that hasn't put a dent in OAI's hype. There's absolutely no comeuppance for …
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>the public repeating the benchmarks themselves The public has no access to this benchmark. In fact, everyone thought it was all locked up in a vault at Epoch AI HQ, but looks like Sam Altman has a…
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>OpenAI has data access to much but not all of the dataset Their head mathematician says they have the full dataset, except a holdout set which they're currently developing (i.e. doesn't …
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Uropian Eunion
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All episodes of the 90s Tintin animated series are on DailyMotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x749uno …
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Recursive self-improvement?