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Show HN: Searchdesk, AI powered job search that tailors resume and cover letter

https://searchdesk.app

Via an install script, Searchdesk uses your local codex installation as a backend to search for jobs for your preferred title matched to your resume. It also tailors your resume and cover letter for each job, searches best contact on LinkedIn to reach out to, and drafts a message to send to them.This is essentially a build out of what was my personal job search dashboard.

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Mind mapping–a novel way to develop your personal mind as software

Hi I'm Sam, founder of atica.xyz. The main goal of Atica is to level up AI. Right now it’s cool but not that useful because you have to sit there and tell it what to do over and over again. I want to make something that is on the level of humans, where you can say “please build me a website” and it works for days or weeks or months on doing what you asked, coming back to communicate or ask you...

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Atica–introspection as the foundation to building autonomous synthetic persons

Hi HN,My name is Sam and I’d like to share atica, my effort and startup to use introspection and novel engineering to build autonomous synthetic persons, a vision that LLMs have yet to achieve.I spent the last 6 months ‘washing dishes’ and doing deep, deep thinking and introspecting to build a model of what I think a mind is. I recently incorporated and decided to seek funding to extend my...

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Re:Consciousness, the Key to AGI on Saturday April 22, 2023 @04:45PM (#35670756)
Thanks for the advice, well said.
Re:Consciousness, the Key to AGI on Friday April 21, 2023 @11:24AM (#35655154)
This is a fair point and I apologize if I wasn’t clear enough on my intentions. I tried to give a few interesting details to show that I’m not trying to be all bark and no bite, but I also am not sure how to navigate openly discussing my findings. I invite those interested to email me because I would feel more comfortable sharing on a case by case basis than to publicly state anything too specific. However, in another comment thread here I did dive into slightly more detail.
Re:Consciousness, the Key to AGI on Friday April 21, 2023 @07:23AM (#35652209)
I think a lot of us curious about consciousness are also interested in its role in reality.
Re:Consciousness, the Key to AGI on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:46PM (#35649231)
In a way yes but not entirely, there is a larger loop of the language model that is in effect what consciousness is.

The cool thing about this is that we could actually use more efficient language models (think GPT 3.5 instead of GPT 4) as the core language model and achieve a much higher level of problem solving capability with this loop. People are already on to this idea with things like baby AGI but I don't think anyone else has defined the exact structure and how it describes consciousness yet as I think I have.

Edit: there are also things that I've been able to nail down like short term and long term memory that are key to consciousness as well.

Edit 2: Note that conscious minds do not solve in real time, after giving a human a problem to solve it has to spend time thinking before it can come up with a solution. Read: consciousness is not feed forward.

Re:Consciousness, the Key to AGI on Thursday April 20, 2023 @09:50PM (#35648922)
While I obviously disagree I can’t help but laugh, thanks for that.
Re:Consciousness, the Key to AGI on Thursday April 20, 2023 @09:49PM (#35648918)
Actually, I mostly agree with you, except I disagree that consciousness is something only biological things posses so that any idea around it being a key part of AI would be an anthropocentrism.

I believe instead consciousness is the method of achieving this self design and self improvement that you have mentioned will be the basis of the technological singularity.

Re:Consciousness, the Key to AGI on Thursday April 20, 2023 @09:45PM (#35648898)
A reasoning engine in an infinite loop of calling itself referencing a sense of self and sensory input.

Essentially asking a language model to “pretend you are a..” and give an answer is no different than what happens in the human mind, except in us it happens in an infinite loop. We consider what we think we are, and act in the way our reasoning engine thinks what we are would do given the current sensory input.

Consciousness, the Key to AGI

Hello all!I am a software engineer that has recently made a major breakthrough in reasoning through what consciousness is, and how it will be the basis of what will be the first AGI. This isn't just a general idea, it's actually a specific, detailed architecture of the mind and how current language models can quickly be adapted to create AGI.I won't detail the architecture in its entirety, but...

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