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Re:Safe Superintelligence Inc. on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @05:29PM (#40732581)
How can they speak of Safety when they are based partly in a colonialist settler entity that is committing a genocide and wanting to exterminate the indigenous population to make room for the Greater Zionist State.

I don't do business with Israeli companies while Israel is engaged in mass Extermination of a human population they treat as dogs.

Re:LoRA from Scratch implementation for LLM finetuning on Monday January 22, 2024 @03:22PM (#39094883)
What's the performance penalty of LoRA?
It is legal. Fair use. People have been doing it for ages. Almost every article you've ever read has some fair use of another article, book or news item, etc.
Re:What We Need Instead of "Web Components" on Friday December 22, 2023 @02:16AM (#38731766)
Browser vendors are (or should be) managing the abstractions for their own needs, with developer needs expected to be met by framework/library developers.

Who says web components are meant for use directly by the developer? Maybe they're primarily meant for the browser developers (those who build browser features), not for use directly by web app developers.

Re:Building AI without a neural network on Monday December 04, 2023 @10:49AM (#38518705)
Well, if it's so useless why is it on the HN front page? Are there "PR" companies behind promoting items to the HN front page? I'm sure there are because sometimes an article like this comes up at #3 and everyone says it's got no substance, clickbait, etc
"Four years ago, Altman’s mentor, Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, flew from the United Kingdom to San Francisco to give his protégé the boot, according to three people familiar with the incident, which has not been previously reported."

I guess he had a change of heart about Sam because ... ?

Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft on Monday November 20, 2023 @04:31AM (#38345398)
Sam didn't create the breakthroughs behind the current GPT.

He did not create the breakthroughs behind the next GPT.

None of the people that may follow have the same handle on the tech as Ilya. I mean they built up Ilya's image in our mind so much, that he's one of a kind genius (or maybe Musk did that) and now we are to believe that his genius doesn't matter and that Microsoft already knows how to create AGI and that OpenAI is no longer relevant?

Or did I get it wrong?

You are assuming he wouldn't steal t from OpenAI. He could have a low level employee steal it, and manage to keep it a secret until AGI is born then he takes over the world.
Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition on Friday November 17, 2023 @05:57PM (#38311800)
What did Sam Altman hide from his board that caused his firing as CEO of OpenAI?

1) That LLMs cannot generalize outside of _patterns_ they pick up during training? (as shown by a recent paper from Google, and as many of us know from our work testing LLMs and working around their short comings)

2) That every time you train a new model, with potentially very high expense, you have no idea what you're going to get. Generally better but also potentially bigger reliability challenges. LLMs are fundamentally unreliable and not stable in any kind of use case besides chat apps, especially when they keep tweaking and updating the model and deprecating old ones. No one can build on shifting sands.

3) The GPT4-Turbo regressed on code generation performance and the 128K window is only usable up to 16K (but for me in use cases more compicated than Q&A over docs, I found that 1.2K is max usable window. That's 100X than he advertised.

4) That he priced GPT4-V at a massive loss to crush the competition

5) That he rushed the GPT Builder product, causing massive drain on resources dedicated to existing customers, and having to halt sign ups, even with a $29B investment riding on the grwoth of the user base. Any one of the above or none of the above.

No one knows... but the board.. .and Microsoft who has 49% control of the board.

Repo has been deleted? I get a 404. I did see it earlier on.

I fed the equation image (screenshot at the right frame from their gif then cropped) into ChatGPT (GPT4-V) and it correctly deciphered the equation and gave the correct LaText code.

Why was the repo removed?

"Despite the increasing complexity and capabilities of machine learning models, they still lack what is commonly understood as "agency." They don't have desires, intentions, or the ability to form goals. They operate under a fixed set of rules or algorithms and don't "want" anything.

Even in feedback loop systems where a model might "learn" from the outcomes of its actions, this learning is typically constrained by the objectives set by human operators. The model itself doesn't have the ability to decide what it wants to learn or how it wants to act; it's merely optimizing for a function that was determined by its creators.

Furthermore, any tendency to "meander and drift outside the scope of their original objective" would generally be considered a bug rather than a feature indicative of agency. Such behavior usually implies that the system is not performing as intended and needs to be corrected or constrained.

In summary, while machine learning models are becoming increasingly sophisticated and capable, they do not possess agency in the way living organisms do. Their actions are a result of algorithms and programming, not independent thought or desire. As a result, questions about their "autonomy" are often less about the models themselves developing agency and more about the ethical and practical implications of the tasks we delegate to them."

The above is from the horse's mouth (ChatGPT4)

I meant that saying "something is inconsistent sometimes" is weird because inconsistency implies "sometimes"
"We do have issues with consistency sometimes" That's a strange statement. Having issues with consistency means that sometimes the output is wrong. What does it mean to have issues with consistency sometimes ? You're either consistent or you're not.
Re:Progress on No-GIL CPython on Saturday October 21, 2023 @11:54PM (#37972692)
Mojo was mature enough for a person I know in the community who ported their Python port of llama2 to it. Also, others pointed out other languages they would rather use.

The rationalization in your response obfuscate the real reason you were triggered to down vote, which is that you are too emotionally vested in Python and afraid to try a better alternative.

Re:Progress on No-GIL CPython on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:39PM (#37969896)
This downvoting to -3 is illustrative of how HN down votes are about territorial warfare, ego, etc. Has nothing to do with logic. You don't like to port your python code to nogil python? I'm gonna downvote you. WTF is wrong with you people.
Re:Progress on No-GIL CPython on Friday October 20, 2023 @06:26PM (#37962187)
I'd rather port my Python code to Mojo and get, multi-threading, SIMD and other speedups
Re:Pali-3 Vision Language Models: Smaller, Faster, Stronger on Monday October 16, 2023 @03:10AM (#37896657)
no github?
Down-voted because...?
What does that say about OpenAI losing money on ChatGPT Plus esp now with multi-modal which I can only assume is very expensive.
Re:MIT 6.5940: TinyML and Efficient Deep Learning Computing on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:05AM (#37621482)
seems that the course doesn't include Google's highly efficiemt "step by step distillation" method, which was discussed on HN yesterday
Re:“perpetual motion” device is clever [video] on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:57PM (#37514024)
I had the Arabic translated edition of that book! same fond memories!
Re:Show HN: Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4 on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:53PM (#37489045)
"to replace GPT-3.5/4"

Very inflated statement when it comes to GPT4 since it is a MoE model with 8 separate models each an expert in one area, and you can't replace all 8 models with one model trained for $19.

I call BS on this claim. Maybe it matches GPT4 in the narrow domain you fine-tune it for, and if that can be done for $19 then for $19*8 you can take OpenAI out of business. That doesn't add up.

Re:Comparing 60 LLMs with a set of 20 prompts on Saturday September 09, 2023 @12:00PM (#37446860)
Every now and then GPT4 outputs a wrong answer. It's impossible to build a reliable product on top of GPT4 that is not a simple chat bot.
Re:Comparing 60 LLMs with a set of 20 prompts on Saturday September 09, 2023 @11:51AM (#37446757)
It might be trained on this question or a variant of it.
Except Signal's founder probably has/had a connection with the NSA. All security is for making it hard for the common attacker, and hostile countries. The NSA, most likely, has social engineered its way into every stack and every important org.
Re:Moving AI governance forward – openai.com on Friday July 21, 2023 @01:06PM (#36816461)
you're tiresome and banal
Re:FedNow Is Live on Friday July 21, 2023 @01:14AM (#36810233)
I think FedNow can serve as the inter-bank settlement rails for CBDC, or the wholesale side of CBDC
Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:48PM (#36779548)
If we have the budget for pre-training an LLM the architecture itself is a commodity, so what does llama2 add here?

It's all the pre-training that we look to bigCo to do which can cost millions of dollars for the biggest models.

Llama2 has too small of a window for this long of a wait, which suggests that http://Meta.AI team doesn't really have much of a budget as a larger context would be much more costly.

The whole point of a base LLM is the money spent pre-training it.

But it performs badly out of the gate on coding, which is what I'm hearing, then maybe fine-tuning with process/curriculum supervision would help, but that's about it. .

Better? yes. Revolutionary? Nope.

Re:Experiencing Decreased Performance with ChatGPT-4 on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:52PM (#36634585)
the base model may have been but not necessarily the RLHF fine-tuned layers they might have added or the shortcut they're taking during inference due to such fine tuning (or for perf optimization unrelated to fine tuning.)
if you have to resort to archaic writing to prove a point about the latest and most advanced piece of technology, ... you're practicing religion, not science.

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