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GPT4 is multimodal in the sense that it can take images as input. The person is using a speech to text system such as OpenAIs Whisper and serving screenshots and voice transcripts …

I don’t know how one would settle the question but I’d venture to say that Theravada is not less close to the Western impression of Buddhism than other parts of Buddhism. Additiona…

Effective altruists are most commonly donating to specific relatively high-evidence causes in low-income countries or much more speculative existential risk causes. Donations such …

It uses LoRA which is much smaller than full model

Depends on what you mean by works out. They are planning on doing huge training runs the coming years so they sure can make use of compute from both Google Cloud and AWS

How is this related to the topic?

https://chat.openai.com/share/d9d64cf5-3ad5-4491-97a1-43fa01...

He’s explicitly saying that it is not embarrassing in this sense and that it is rather that the discrepancy is ‘awkward’

Seems cool! I know basic Spanish from Duolingo but not enough to understand what it says to after a few rounds so my suggestion is that there is a side-by-side translated version o…

I assume he means that models will be fine-tuned (or otherwise steered) by developers to have submissive behavior.

Sounds like that to me too.

Yes, see also the transformers library containing many transformer models in pytorch

This is intended to be a way to fairly distribute UBI, so a fee alone does not work in that case.

Your first sentence is interesting, why do you think that?

While I agree it is worth noting that this was already tested in some kind of sandbox environment that only ‘simulated’ replication.

What are some things you have met where it seemed outright evil? (I don’t have any work experience yet)

I would like a source for the first claim. When I read the preprint for this paper half a year ago it was actually one of their claims that to the best of their knowledge their Pon…

Measuring performance in rounds of successful Chinese whisper (irony)

Surely this cannot be an argument for whether something is a legitimate field. Surely there are some scientists somewhere studying the risks of a very risky viruses. At least prima…

I think I heard of people with brain damage who does not keep an internal state, they feel like they continuously wake up and only remember memories from before the brain damage. T…

Interesting perspective, where did you read about this?

I heard from a chemistry researcher that it is also common in that field to give vague descriptions of synthesis procedures in order to allow authors to churn out more papers.

This is a valid problem and my impression is that researchers are aware of this problem but are just working with what they have got. https://twitter.com/RCarhartHarris/status/1513…