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mrtranscendence

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    Comment #48230401

    That doesn't work for library projects, though.

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    Comment #44985194

    > Your local plumber is going to want a funny action movie trailer slash plumbing advertisement to advertise their services. They wouldn't have even been in the market before. And …

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    Comment #44985049

    > "We're profitable on inference. If we didn't pay for training, we'd be a very profitable company." That's OpenAI (though I'd be curious if that statement holds for subscriptions …

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    Comment #44984644

    Microsoft claims that they have an AI setup that outperforms human doctors on diagnosis tasks: https://microsoft.ai/new/the-path-to-medical-superintelligen... "MAI-DxO boosted the …

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    Comment #44984504

    Waar heb je het over? "Welgelegen Buitenrust Nooitgedacht Rustenburg" is volkomen cromulent Engels. For what it's worth, I do use AI for language learning, though I'm not sure it's…

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    Comment #42729026

    > the iPhone was only "in charge" for a brief year or two, and then Android ate its lunch in terms of marketshare. This is true worldwide, but there are significant regions where i…

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    Comment #42715996

    Oh man, I played the shit out of the Lone Wolf books when I was a kid in the eighties and nineties. My brother had the first couple of them, and I still have his old books somewher…

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    Comment #42715947

    > Character stats, names, details about players - those are inputs, and structured ones at that. Some details about players are structured and can be easily stored and referenced. …

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    Comment #42434982

    You sound like a fun guy.

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    Comment #42434646

    You seem to readily agree that my use case is inappropriate for LLMs, but not ToucanLoucan?

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    Comment #42432597

    We're not allowed to record meetings at work, with some exceptions such as trainings. I'm not at all sure why, but I believe it has to do with merger plans. We're not working on an…

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    Comment #42432546

    I suspect you're overstating the degree to which an LLM might be unsuitable for some types of work. For example, I'm a data scientist who works primarily in the field of sales fore…

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    Comment #42312055

    If I'm not conscious, it's rather difficult to explain what I'm experiencing right now.

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    Comment #41883051

    Prove what point? There have clearly been crooked or underhanded companies that achieved success. Microsoft in its early heyday, for example. The fact that they paid a price for it…

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    Comment #41651208

    Act as high and mighty as you please, I won't mind. But bear in mind that: * most people will find it surprising that showing a photo from the internet to ChatGPT is as unsafe as o…

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    Comment #41651103

    Wait, how does rewriting a prompt until it gives you the output you expect help the LLM learn? Are you suggesting better prompting gets fed back into the training process in some h…

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    Comment #41651006

    People aren't infallible, but in my experience they're much less likely to give me incorrect factual information than LLMs. Sometimes lawyers are wrong, of course, but they are wro…

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    Comment #41141878

    X says "I would like RCTs on this subject", and you reply that most RCTs are worthless. Great, what do you want, a cookie? Presumably they want good RCTs, not low-quality ones.

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    Comment #41110401

    True, you might Xerox copies but you wouldn't Kleenex your stuffy nose (though I've heard of someone bandaiding a cut before). Like Kleenex I actually think AI is slightly too awkw…

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    Comment #41036055

    I did something similar to this using RAG except for Vampire rather than D&D. It wasn't overwhelmingly difficult, but I found that the system was quite sensitive to how I chunked u…

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    Comment #40909077

    Navigation between cells with j/k doesn't seem to work, unfortunately. I'm used to not having to move my hands to use the mouse when editing a Jupyter notebook.

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    Comment #40908941

    I generally tend to think that complaints about dependency management in Python are way overblown -- it's usually not a problem for me. But lately I've been trying out some off-PyP…

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    Comment #40867122

    You're missing the point. What's not realistic is to tell everyone that they should abstain from any type of entertainment that requires power (TV shows, movies, video games, etc) …

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    Comment #40866773

    > If advertisements were opt-in, I expect a single digit percentage of people would ever elect to see them. I mean, you'd see the same thing if paying for your groceries were opt-i…