lagrange77
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HackerCord or HackerBook maybe?
It's not about the tools.
I also regularly complain about AI generated content. I do that mostly, because it's often either
- extremely uninspired design and UX wise (e.g. the classical beige/serif AI slop website),
- full of obvious and stupid mistakes (e.g. those shitty infographics on social media),
- just mimics the real thing, but misses the actual purpose (e.g. again those shitty infographics on social media)
- or is ridiculously overloaded with features and documentation
That's repelling to me, because it screams that the human behind it is himself lazy and uninspired. It feels like a waste of time to even consume something, that the author or developer wasn't willing to put actual effort and thought into.
But that's an artefact of how the author is using the tool and presenting the results.
It's not an inherent property of AI use itself. HackerTimes for example doesn't feel uninspired or bland. And i like it.
> Also can't you just buy
Do you ask that question on every Open Source / Open Hardware project you encounter?
Touchscreens didn't make physical controls lose their value.
Their widespread use is just a result of a tradeoff for many product designers, where a satisfying experience just didn't outweigh the dominating factors.
Some car manufacturers are in fact reintroducing physical user control elements. After reevaluating the tradeoff decision so it seems.
It's really a fascinating book and topic. And i too enjoy appreciating it. I guess it's appreciating the beauty of nature and as you said, AI will not be able to threaten that.
> Mathematicians are uniquely placed to help avoid 1 because AI is based on math & algorithms.
It's based on centuries old applied math.
I would say what he means is the web. LLMs can be used as another interface to the internet. Additionally the web gets polluted by slop.
Oh wow thanks, you might have saved me a lot of time and anger.
> It moves, show "emotions", comments when someone enter the room, uses the camera to see who entered the room and comment on that, make comments when my 3D printer finishes, things like that.
So basically you're using it as an AI mother in law, nice.
What would be so bad about relying on ROS in any way?
Sounds interesting, could you elaborate on what you do with?
Very cool idea and my evolution to a scorpio was fun and educational.
I actively do it in a way, where i steer and understand the important bits. Because otherwise the cognitive and technical debt would annoy me to a point, where i would want to do software at all.
Took me a few minutes to realise it's not a domain name search engine.
> could be understood as slightly hyperbolic
Of course, you're right. I didn't intend to criticise him.
I just think that it's not a good idea to transfer this megatrend to healthcare.
Yes, those systems can be highly accurate, but as we all have experienced, this is not a stable or consistent property. A very good model can give you an ingenious answer one minute and an utterly dumb one the next. My guess is that it's simply a consequence of the extremely high complexity of the 'plant' (natural language, language interfacing with the real world), leading to some highly non linear behaviour.
So you want him to make a piece of software that models a probability distribution rock solid.
Yeah, interestingly it feels equally bland as the 90s pendants.
I thought exactly the same at first. But then i wondered if that still holds true with today's advanced thinking, RLHF involved, frontier models. I guess to a certain extend it did indeed behave better, as a reaction to his self description into account.
EDIT: I mean, those systems accumulated so much complexity around the attention based next token predictor.
So Opus introduced a container with overflow:scroll in the middle of the page, while Qwen didn't? That's interesting in terms of "smartness".
Could someone explain to me, why rare books are so precious for them?
Say i feed the largest LLM a book of an alien civilisation, that it definitely hasn't seen before. Then this tiny piece of text muds the vast ocean (latent space) of the model minimally. It will not be able to cite from that book reliably after that fine tuning. Especially for rare books, because them being rare implies, that there aren't 1000s of other books, that encode the same information.
It's general language modelling capabilities might get an iota better, of course. But for putting factual information into it, wouldn't RAG be a much more solid approach?
Watch Don't look up, if you haven't yet, it's brilliant.
Everybody knows that. You contact NASA. Then a black helicopter will pick you up, bring you to an airbase and fly you straight to the white house, where you will be introduced to the actual truth, while a team of very excited scientists with biohazard suits praise and examine the artefact. If you're still sceptical, they will take you to a large hidden hangar in the middle of the desert and show you around.
Should be sarcasm, sorry.
This is so true. It has so much potential to help with humanity's actual problems. But no, lets use it to manipulate people even more.
The video is also awesome!
I had to lol at the doom scene.
> investigating mathematics is fun whether it is new to the world or not.
Yes exactly. Enjoying the beauty of nature is (thankfully) completely decoupled from the job/money/society side of things.