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No, your constant output example isn’t what people are talking about with “hallucination.” It’s not about destroying information from the input, in the sense that it you asked me a…

Sure, but if we label the text as “factually accurate” or “logically sound” (or “unsound”) etc., then we can presumably greatly increase the probability of producing text with targ…

A pixel (in the context of an image) could be “wrong” in the sense that its assigned value could lead to an image that just looks like a bunch of noise. For instance, suppose we se…

My recollection of CLIP is that it’s more of a text-language co-embedding, where you have two transformers, one which encodes images into vectors and one which encodes captions int…

I would assume some of them can write Verilog code

You need to be very careful about making sweeping generalizations based on a single personal anecdote. The really large data sets typically have very high error rates and sample bi…

Data can be crowd sourced, too. Wikipedia demonstrated that crowdsourced data can be pretty competitive. More recently the open LAION data sets have become widely used by both tech…

If it faithfully memorized and reproduced a set of watermarks, it would be premature to conclude that it hadn’t memorized other (non-generic) graphical elements.

That statement was clearly false. With an amazing teacher, an extremely bright student, focus, patience, time, etc., sure we can have the next Galois… but in the vast majority of c…

Calculus is not easy to teach to children. We fail to teach it adequately to most college students in their first two years of study. Even a few historically noteworthy mathematici…

Calculus was quite difficult for human civilization to get a logically sound handle on; basically, it took the better part of two centuries from Newton’s original formulation of Ca…

Yes, the future is now. It’s still early, extracted model quality will undoubtedly improve dramatically over time. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/09/23/3d-generative-ai-re... h…

The first AI generated feature length film I’d want to see would be, “It’s a Wonderful Life, Calculus,” where we get to see what human history would’ve been like if we’d never stum…

I would actually start with a first pass at elementary linear algebra, before taking a serious crack at even single variable Calculus. Then let the key ideas marinate in your brain…

You have the first prerequisite, the desire to learn! Try to find resources which nurture your interest, until it grows into the will to learn. I find the history of mathematics an…

If you removed all of the noise in a corrupted image in one step, you would have a denoising autoencoder, which has been around since the mid-aughts or perhaps earlier. Denoising d…

No, NeRFs are more interpretable because they directly model field densities which absorb and emit light. In this respect they are something akin to a neural version of photogramme…

This approach is interesting in that it applies image-to-image diffusion modeling to autoregressively generate 3D consistent novel views, starting with even a single reference 2D i…

I’d imagine a cockroach is generally a bit harder to kill than a mosquito.

Giving no reason, absent a contractual or legal requirement to provide one, falls far short of offering up a blatantly illegal explanation. Even so, companies have clearly been fou…

The established remedy for abusive monopolies is enforcement of antitrust laws.

No, state and federal law explicitly create protected classes, and describe the scope of protections granted. A service provider would be opening itself up to huge liability if it …

Exactly so. Your decision not to host certain content you find odious is a valid exercise of your freedom of speech, as well as your freedom of association.

I am not suggesting that the right tools will allow absolutely anyone to be happy working in any given role in the domain of software development. Scoping is a big part of finding …