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> But there have been entire books written about the fact that right now we have the technology to drastically curtail climate change and yet they're under utilized because of a co…

The experience of vastness is mostly due to (high-res) stereoscopic vision. When you experience 6DOF VR in a fairly high-res world it definitely comes much, much closer to the awe …

> LLMs lack qualia, among other things. You don't know and can't know that. You cannot know that of any other being than yourself. If you understood what qualia are, you would know…

True, but that is clearly not where the biggest potential gains lie. The number of different topologies we've tried for ANNs is miniscule compared to the number of biological neura…

> AI is already improving itself. Most / all of the coding harnesses are AI-written. AI has not improved the network topology much yet. The next (and possibly 'last') big thing is …

Exactly: The best way to deal with this for humans is to use procedural scripts for different tasks, referring to the relevant bits of the (declarative) documentation. I would imag…

My favorite in this regard is this story: https://x.com/tiangolo/status/1281946592459853830?lang=en Sebastián Ramírez seeing a job requiring 4 years of experience with FastAPI, the…

> You can be highly productive and yet produce nothing of value. I'm sorry, but this is nonsense. Yes, you can produce nothing of 'traditional' value whilst still being productive …

You are indeed out of the loop. Google did something arguably more impressive more than a year ago, with a VLA based bot replacing a tensioned timing belt: https://www.youtube.com/…

Excuses don't matter if the score due to not following instructions ends up being zero. If there is no expected reward it doesn't make sense for the agent to try to hack its way to…

Except they did comply for all the cases where they were fined. They're not fined for one-off behaviors, but for how their services are structured. That's GPs point.

> The fact that it happened again seems to show their lack of ability to derive useful oversight measures. I think OpenAI likes the attention and did not try particularly hard to c…

> that depends on what the prompt was, maybe they worded it very vaguely and wrote things like "do whatever it takes, find an exploit however you can" because it's in a sandbox so …

1. They explicitly disabled the "don't be evil" protections: "We estimate maximal cyber capabilities by running this evaluation without production classifiers used to prevent model…

They never show the fully packaged version of the tent, though. It looks like even in their non-rigid state they're too rigid to be folded up easily and carelessly into a compact s…

Lost me at the last paragraph. Comparing billion dollar companies to small businesses does not make sense. The real reason for Electron apps being a thing is that there is very lit…

Yes, if they are made with new technology and the quality is good enough they certainly are. AI generated video memes were NOT a thing a year ago. Yes, the AI video generation in i…

12 months ago "way too many stupid errors" was constant news. Today, you rarely hear about those anymore. Sure, the novelty of the errors has worn off a bit and thus the reporting.…

> The problem (right now) is that Open Weight models depend right now on huge companies to spend billion of dollars to train and develop them, all backed up by their incentives and…

Opinionated system prompts forcing this are awful. It's similar to putting "ALWAYS INDENT WITH TABS" in the system prompt, but worse, because "self-documenting code" is a convenien…

Yet. If the exponential improvement had already started, the singularity would already have happened or happen very, very soon. The logic has always been that the AI would have to …

> It hasn't worked out like that It seems quite premature to say that. We're 3 to 4 years into the LLM revolution and the rate of progress is still impressive. The recursive self-i…

Is it? What is the proof for that? I think we've seen time and time again that self-regulation of the industry doesn't work and that businesses will gladly fuck over society if the…

A strange thing to comment on an article specifically about a toolkit produced by Apple to improve gaming on Macs. Needlessly dismissive of a large swath of people too.

I am not ignoring anything, I'm looking at the broader picture, which includes non-biological evolution. Simple rebuttal to your specific point: The population of self-improving AI…