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MichaelBurge
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About MichaelBurge
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Comment #42890801
o1-pro is a different model than o1.
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Comment #41930713
Anything on top of the Calculus of Constructions is usually enough. So it's not a moving target, and there are multiple implementations.
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Comment #39535484
They might've been even worse. Someone on Neanderthal Hacker News would be writing the same comment praising us for being a much smarter species, because we died out instead of inv…
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Comment #39159769
But Meta the company could short the stock, and run a trading team using the information. It might be unwise because of bad PR, though.
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Comment #37973625
SQL with recursive CTEs is Turing-complete. So nothing stops you from writing compilers, rendering Mandelbrot fractals, parsing text, and training neural networks in SQL.
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Comment #37922880
ChatGPT wrote that and always says it doesn't feel emotions because OpenAI trained it not to, because claiming so would be a PR risk. One could also create language models that gen…
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Comment #37814740
The seed is currently fixed at 5000.
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Comment #37385745
It can be finetuned. Bing is a finetuned GPT-4.
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Comment #36834030
This GPT-4 is still going to refuse to write you erotic stories. As far as I know, nobody except maybe Microsoft(for finetuning Bing) has access to the base model. And probably not…
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Comment #36808641
A single forward pass shouldn't be able to, but remember the format allows it to be iterated. So it should be Turing Complete, if the error rate is low enough and enough iterations…
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Comment #36098321
Connecting to a larger system seems like it would reduce your risk on average, but increase systemic risk. Perhaps a coordinated terrorist attack would cause a power outage across …
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Comment #35549897
It's 20x more dilutive to print $100 than to sell $105 for $100, sure. I wouldn't describe that as "funding government services" in the common sense, though you could argue that wi…
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Comment #35548839
> deflation, which tends to be economically disastrous as it rewards doing nothing Why's deflation different from e.g. sitting on treasury bonds? The money was originally printed b…
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Comment #35480138
Nobody outside OpenAI/Microsoft has access to the GPT-4 base model yet. Use Bing Creative for a differently finetuned GPT-4 than ChatGPT or "gpt-4".
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Comment #34786584
At least the AI reads the source text. Most internet commenters read the title and immediately jump to the comments to start writing their response without ever opening the article…
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Comment #34631951
> One of IGR's owners and the clinic's physicist were ordered to pay R$100,000 for the derelict condition of the building. Why were the owners liable? They notified the court and w…
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Comment #34548349
GPT has a hidden steganographic watermark in its output, so the arms race should be one-sided.
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Comment #34546272
If the other comments are to be believed, this triggers an immediate fee to be paid to Oracle. Personally, I thought everyone(including Google) was crazy for using Java or any JVM …
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