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"Despite the best efforts of his words, his actions continued their relentless smear campaign."

This is completely irrelevant. McDermot's point was that scientifically-plausible definitions of reasoning were not actually being used in practice by AI researchers when they made…

The fundamental argument of "Artificial Intelligence, Natural Stupidity" is that AI researchers constantly abuse terms like "reasoning," "deduction," "understanding," and so on, de…

Racket might be the best bet, especially since it comes with a graphical IDE - Emacs is a big stumbling block for beginners. Racket also has lots of tools that make it fun and prac…

A lot of people are worried about Llama screwing up, and that's a valid concern. But this is also an Electron app + a few nontrivial Python scripts for watching changes to a filesy…

Okay we are speaking past each other, and you are still misunderstanding the subtlety of the comment: A dictionary or a reputable Wikipedia entry or whatever is ultimately full of …

To be clear he is saying that the LLM is not capable of justified true belief, not commenting on people who believe LLM output. I don’t think your comment is relevant here.

Got it - thought you were saying vendor lock-in meant the standards were de facto not open (which seemed unfair, the standards are transparent and not unusually difficult to implem…

Google’s poor testing is hardly in doubt. But keep in mind that the whole problem is that LLMs don’t handle “unlikely” text nearly as well as “likely” text. So the near-infinite sp…

There has been a lot of excitement recently about how using lower precision floats only slightly degrades LLM performance. I am wondering if Google took those results at face value…

I think he understands a lot about ML. But he doesn't give a shit about how actual brains work. For dumb reasons, ideological and personal, he has convinced himself that machine le…

Am I misunderstanding what "open standard" means? Why don't vCard and iCalendar count?

Yes, specifically it seemed like OpenAI was actively encouraging people (men) to have fake personal relationships with a chatbot. I am wondering if Sam Altman gave up on the idea t…

It seems narrow, but there really is no safety-friendly explanation for Altman et al giving their robot a flirty lady voice and showing off how it can compliment a tech dude's phys…

“After six months of investigation and $15m in consulting fees, we have determined that our crossword designer can easily be replaced with advanced AI.” [two days later] “Okay, a s…

I can't help but notice that the meme starts with white comedians noticing how often it occurs among their (presumably largely white) listeners, and KnowYourMeme is quite unconvinc…

Arvind Narayanan had a more fun and illustrative example last year: Narayanan says he has succeeded in executing an indirect prompt injection with Microsoft Bing, which uses GPT-4,…

I would assume Google search is using a cheaper, flakier model. But it could also be that some contractor spent 30 minutes teaching Gemini that Kenya starts with a K. This specific…

From The Verge[1]: Google spokesperson Meghann Farnsworth said the mistakes came from “generally very uncommon queries, and aren’t representative of most people’s experiences.” The…