MichaelDickens
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It's not that it's more impressive than solving Millenium Prize problems. It's that if a model can edit its own weights, then it can self-improve without having to undergo training, which means it can self-improve extraordinarily faster.
This is very dangerous because it allows AI capabilities to grow at a much faster rate than humans are able to keep up with.
There are realistic situations where galactic O(n) sorting algorithms exist, right? 32-bit integers can be sorted in O(n) using 2^32 words of memory, using bucket sort[1].
If objects have a maximum size of 4 GB (= 2^35 bits), then arbitrary objects can be sorted in O(n) using 2^2^35 bits of memory.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_sort
OBS is such a staple among streamers, for a long time I thought "OBS" was the generic term for video screen sharing software. Only recently learned that it's a specific software, and it's free and open source!
> Increasing interest rates is new information which surprised everybody
The people I know who pay attention to AI and finance, including both bulls and bears, near-unanimously agreed that AI would cause interest rates to go up.
Example: "AGI and the EMH: markets are not expecting aligned or unaligned AI in the next 30 years" [1] – their argument (written in 2023) is that if the market expects AGI soon, then interest rates should be high.
[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ngpC5PFAgxHJMhicM/agi-and-th...
For a while I was under the impression that all the reviews in The A.V. Club were satirical, and I could never figure out what the joke was supposed to be.
It blows my mind that LLMs are solving Millennium Prize problems and people are still trying to argue that they can't do original thinking.
> "This 100% deadly airborne superbacterium is inspired by natural bacteria, it's not truly original thinking," I say, as the superintelligent AI kills me and everyone else in the world
The credit card fee is the only thing that changes based on the payment method. The fuel cost, employee cost, etc. is the same for the same product, but if you pay with a credit card, it costs the seller more money.
It's common for the price you pay to change when the method of purchase changes. For example, having a product delivered costs the seller more than if you picked it up from the store, so you have to pay a delivery fee.
It's very common for civil liberties to be tested on cases where the person is actually guilty.
That's why it's important that the trolley company was established as a non-profit. And if it does take funding, investors' returns will be capped at 100x.
(...wait)
Does it matter whether the data was poorly secured? LLMs should not be hacking into government medical websites, and if they do, the companies responsible should disclose the incidents as soon as possible.
I would take "Our town has the castle" to imply that there's a group of towns that collectively only have one castle, and your town is the one that has it.
Compare: "Sacramento is the capital." You could say Sacramento is a capital if the reference group includes Albany, Austin, Tallahassee, etc. Or you could say Sacramento is the capital if the reference group includes Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, etc.
> AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations.
I'm glad to hear Suleyman has solved the hard problem of consciousness! I sure hope he shares his solution with the rest of us.
I feel like we need some version of "increase the temperature" that works at a macro scale instead of on individual tokens.
It has access to its own instructions, right? Otherwise how would the instructions work?
> But there is one huge question: did Tristan opt out of model training for his ChatGPT and Codex sessions? If the answer is no, then this seems fair game.
Just because something is legal and permitted by terms of service doesn't mean it's morally right.
I don't work on open source but it could be:
- Good design requires user interviews, which are less common in open source
- The sorts of people who are most attracted to open source work are programmers, not designers
- Open source software can get popular even with bad design; closed source software with bad design fails and shuts down
What's wrong with Fandom?
Well, I'm an American, but US media is disproportionately set in Los Angeles or NYC, and I haven't been to either of those places.
I was watching Monk recently, and it feels kinda neat seeing a show shot in San Francisco because I used to live there. I wouldn't say it feels "cheap" though.
> Or they won't go to the trouble of using any browser that isn't the one provided by default by the OS?
Chrome isn't the default on Windows or Mac, but it's far more popular than Edge or Safari.
Pangram says "100% AI-generated". I trust Pangram more than I trust this author's word.
Three years ago, people were saying "LLMs just generate plausible-sounding text, they don't understand the notion of truth so they can't do verifiable work like math proofs."
> I don’t know that the lack of information should lead you to assume that the Mexico lawsuits are justified.
Gricean implicature.[1] The article wants to make the food companies look like the bad guys. If the lawsuits were clearly unjustified, the article could've made the food companies look worse by explaining the details. Since it didn't explain them, that means the lawsuits were probably justified.
[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/implicature/
Following rz2k's suggestion, you could have a building employee operate the elevator during busy times.
Yes, this is an argument that exists. But it's not supported by evidence. It's the same as the old "video game violence should be outlawed because it might cause real violence", which is just as unsubstantiated.
YC founders aren't the ones taking risks. The risk comes from pouring your life savings into a company and not getting into any incubators and never getting any VC funding and then having no savings and nothing to show for it.
I would rather see you engage with the substance of the article rather than skipping right to insulting the authors. I don't think this sort of comment is up to the standard I have come to expect from HN.
> OpenAI apparently used confidential Apple hardware information when approaching Apple suppliers, and tricked one company into using a "specific trade secret metal-finishing technique" for an OpenAI device by claiming it had Apple's permission to do so.
Reminds me of how Sam Altman told the board that a safety reviewer had approved one of their AI models when the reviewer had done no such things.
I read the main section of the lit review linked by OP, and it didn't seem to come to any real conclusions.
> The results of this review have to be interpreted with caution because the number of studies in each category of cough preparations was small. [...] There is no good evidence for or against the effectiveness of OTC medicines in acute cough.
> It's not even available behind the counter anymore, presumably because they can make more money from morons buying the placebos.
What do you mean "morons"? Say I'm a normal person who doesn't habitually read magazine articles about drug effectiveness. How am I supposed to know that phenylephrine doesn't work? It's in the drug store and they're selling it as a decongestant; I have good reason to believe it will decongest my nose.