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Ok, only in iShares Exponential Technologies ETF as the 3rd entry. There has been press hype linking Palantir with AI however: FT: AI has given Palantir its mystique back The Regis…

Another AI article on the front page since an hour previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36271120

Friendly FYI that Palantir is considered an AI stock, because unfortunately BBC and newsnotfound felt no need to mention it.

“Then, automatically file a patent for it”

Thank you for the article. During lockdown I made a search engine that you might like to try: https://highbrow.se/ No special algorithms and just the plain slightly spammy but ende…

They use a lot of machine learning for ads and YouTube recommendations - the TPU makes sense there and if anything shows how hard they try to keep costs down. It’s a no-brainer for…

Google went slow not due to ethics but because running neural inference is a lot more expensive than serving SERP data from cache.

Normal people are not rational agents.

Lots of people prefer comfort above and beyond the necessity: private cars instead of bus, takeaway instead of home cooked meals, country homes instead of small city apartments.

I agree it’s worth looking at the history, and to not repeat its mistakes, though at the same time this is a new situation, and it will continue to be new into the future, so stick…

The ambiguity of “advanced socialism” is problematic for any meaningful debate, so I apologise for that. I was meaning something closer to “we have the resources and technology (in…

I agree, listening to the podcast I think the answer is that “yes” that is it: faith in technological progress is the axiom and the conclusion. Joined by other key concepts like co…

They’re dystopian fictions, ie. examples of what not to do. But experience has shown that the real-world often recreates dystopian visions by example. So trying to be the first to …

> The goal, the company said, was to avoid a race toward building dangerous AI systems fueled by competition and instead prioritize the safety of humanity. > “You want to be there …

Good idea. A couple more non-AI engines: https://search.marginalia.nu/ and my own https://highbrow.se/

Or they are maladapting to pain that they’ve experienced, or just behaving out of pure ignorance.

It’s way past religion and it’s more like am explosion of science. GPT3.5-turbo has an IQ.. What will GPT 4’s IQ be? Even so, it’s escaped the lab already. Which model will make th…

When performing calibrations I typically found my (accurate) blood finger prick monitor to be 1 mmol/L lower. It’s not enough of a difference to be deadly, as the sibling comment s…

Type 1 diabetic here, they’re not close to as invasive as insulin pumps and a lot of people use those. Honestly the real problem with CGMs is they aren’t accurate enough, and they …

That’s a very engaging explanation. I’d recommend Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as a similarly engaging way to introduce life and death early on. Perhaps a couple more analogies w…

https://www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/comments/zn0zsw/fuck_thi...

Hi HN, I’m pleased to release my “surf engine” to the public for you to try. This is might be for you if you’ve grown frustrated with commercialised SERPs, and want to find the oth…

Thanks for this great reply. Ironic thing though - that 10% most severe poverty mostly lies on the African continent, exactly the place which could stand to benefit the most from C…

I agree that things should be considered ultimately as political (even judicial if needed). But it’s not a given - Black Mirror describes worlds in which that reality does not win …

Does LaMDA have sentient-nature?