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P(correct) doesn't go down with token count if you have self-correction. It can actually go up with token count.

It's quite fitting that the topic of this thread is self-correction. Self-correction is a trivial existence proof that refutes what LeCun is saying, because all the LLM has to say …

Mostly terrorists are dead and this killed far less civilians than the alternative ways of waging war (ground invasion or bombing campaign). This is the level of surgical operation…

You should start by outlining the definition of terrorism, but by that point it would be obvious it isn't terrorism and such a post would have been unnecessary.

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It's good we have different states/schools trying different things, all within the realm of sensible ideas. This creates natural experiments which will be studied in detail, and wh…

They should be allowed to have the same access to and benefit of AI as any regular American business or individual. That is, access through an API. It's the secret sauce that I bel…

They relied on the taxpayer to fund their de facto customer service. It's like aged care homes overusing a public ambulance service instead of hiring an on-call doctor or nurse. Or…

chat.lmsys.org --> "Leaderboard" tab --> "Coding" drop-down selection Or the scale.ai private benchmarks

Open sourcing benefits everyone equally. Given that the US is currently ahead, it's helping China to make gains relative to the US that would have been very difficult otherwise. It…

If it was liberal minded people like Deng as leader of China and Gorbachev as leader of Russia I would care a lot less and may even be in favor of open source despite their autocra…

US has to win the race because while it's true that it's no angel, it isn't an authoritarian dictatorship and there isn't an equivalence in how bad the world will end up for you an…

Well, Ilya doesn't think that. He's firmly in the Hinton camp, not the Lecun camp.

China can not win this race and I hate that this comment is going to be controversial among the circle of people that need to understand this the most. It is damn frightening that …

This is not a trivial point. Selective pressures will push AI towards unsafe directions due to arms race dynamics between companies and between nations. The only way, other than gl…

"French electricity prices turned negative as a drop in demand and surging renewables output prompted some nuclear reactors to power down." This is an issue with nuclear in a net z…

Which saves on labor and land use costs, which is why it's a big deal.

Similar. Retail panels can go as low as $0.2/W for the end consumer, so assume that manufacturing costs are $0.1-0.16/W for standard solar panels. But these are translucent. They'l…

Skeptical about (c), source please. She did say they don't have anything much better than GPT-4o currently, but GPT-5 likely only started training recently.

Reminds me of the AlphaCode approach. Why do you say it's sampling programs from "training data"? With that choice of words, you're rhetorically assuming the conclusion. If he only…

Winter being a problem really depends on location. Seasonal variability is much lower near the equator. Also batteries are becoming a solved tech. Also wind is anti correlated with…

This got innocent people killed. In a just world, those responsible would be in prison, but instead they just got another $0.5bn contract.

It's cost prohibitive, a small hybrid system costs $4000usd which exceeds the average annual income of many equatorial countries. But you are right that if somehow everyone could i…