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lewhoo

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    Comment #45062464

    1 person billion dollar company - the new buzz phrase when "democratize" became so yesterday is in my opinion just that.

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    Comment #45011704

    "Now the only reason why I won't post this as an arxiv note, is that the humans actually beat gpt-5 to the punch :-). Namely the arxiv paper has a v2 arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10138v2 wit…

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    Comment #44733518

    But I can complain about what happens to said something. If my blog photo becomes deep fake porn am I allowed to complain or not ? What we have is an entirely novel situation (with…

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    Comment #42613870

    > a calculator to check her math homework Change 'check' to 'do' and we'll have a discussion.

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    Comment #42475577

    There was a time when in the name of progress people were killed for whatever resources they possessed, others were enslaved etc. and I was under the impression that the measure of…

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    Comment #42475090

    > Sure, there will be growing pains, friction, etc. Who cares? That's right. Who cares about pains of others and why they even should are absolutely words to live by.

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    Comment #42474831

    One of the biggest factors in risk of death right now is poverty. Also what is being chased right now is "human level on most economically viable tasks" because the automated resea…

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    Comment #42069935

    Apparently the biggest mistake they made is to criticize Trump for Jan 6. It's ok, they apologized for that.

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    Comment #41814422

    Well I don't know. A bit naive, a bit like sci-fi and aimed at raising money fits my description of bs quite well.

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    Comment #41814053

    So it's bs but for money and therefore totally fine ? I think it's not ok if only a fraction comes true because some people believe in those things and act on those beliefs right n…

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    Comment #41813305

    I got 185 from 4o mini https://chatgpt.com/share/670987da-6e70-800b-b5a6-f8548fda6b...

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    Comment #41812961

    > Yet in the face of this we still see a population of naysayers who appear intent on rubbishing LLMs at any cost. What was the cost in this case ? It's just an experiment and I th…

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    Comment #41758500

    Those certainly were the catchy headlines. Here's an interesting article: https://news.mit.edu/2024/study-reveals-why-ai-analyzed-medi... “We found that even state-of-the-art model…

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    Comment #41755951

    I actually agree with you. I was a bit sarcastic. If I understand correctly there isn't a fundamental difference when it comes to text output vs pixel data output in this context. …

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    Comment #41755683

    What ? Stable diffusion doesn't have an underlying understanding that humans typically have two arms, two hands and five fingers per hand gathered from vast sea of training data ? …

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    Comment #41729825

    With 3.6B people in the workforce I'd argue there isn't a billion people in need of a computer, not to mention an ai subscription plan. I'm of course assuming most subscriptions fo…

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    Comment #41728972

    > I think what Suleyman is missing here is that most people aren't fine with their "TVs, laptops, in-car cameras and earbuds" recording everything continuously. I really hope so bu…

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    Comment #41668958

    And yet this is precisely what people like Altman say about their product. That's pretty tiring.

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    Comment #41667246

    I'm with you there. I'm just not holding my breath for the current state of law.

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    Comment #41658592

    > It also voids plausibility for Fair Use exemptions. I can see large copyright holders lining up with takedowns I thought so for a moment but then again Meta, Anthropic (I just ch…

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    Comment #41658466

    I don't think that's a good example. People with Alzheimer's have, to put it simply, damaged memory, but not complete lack of. We're talking about a situation where a person wouldn…

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    Comment #41546518

    I wonder if those responses could already be influenced by the fact that the cutoff for some of the models out there was indeed 2023 and people wrote about it all over the internet…

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    Comment #41531034

    Yes but this was just to make a blatant example. The questions still stands. If you feed a LLM certain kind of data is it possible it strays from it completely - like we sometimes …

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    Comment #41529847

    This is truly the new model's answer ? It's pretty similar to 3.5's "reasoning" actually: In this context, "3.10" and "3.11" should be interpreted as decimal numbers, not as number…