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My read: Isaac Su seems to be irritated and mildly triggered that people don't think or act like LLMs aren't just dumb, mute, simple tools. Instead of talking about THAT, he is doi…

I can live with well-composed articles that have a huge chunk of AI in their generation. Stuff interesting enough to get upvoted (i.e. not slop), but I'm so irritated and triggered…

I could skim the article. Wasn't too distracted or annoyed by the obvious AI voice. Learned a bit about ice cream and American (Western?) enshitification at work... ...but these en…

I find this: > but to say you’ve singularly thought through every problem in an armchair, in comparison with the distributed minds of the rest of us, is pretty arrogant. Somehow in…

Fine tuning a model isn't that hard and the tradeoff he described is real. I was on the fine tuning team of a multi-team hackathon to make a specialized chatbot once a few years ag…

Why? Technical curiosity? I ask because this does not seem to be something to want to have.

I don't get it... These humanoid robots are expensive. Unskilled labour, housework seems to be the lowest ROI for them. Factory work, dangerous tasks or skilled tasks I can underst…

An invented syllabary for English: https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/engul.htm

> It also created a 10-page epic rhyming poem about a haircut where every word starts with the letter s Wow

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Not super clear from the site itself, but this LLM is running on specialized silicon implementing just it. So has super low energy use and blazing speed. See https://taalas.com/pro…

He's describing a 4 step process: 1) >I simply run it through an LLM, 2) >paste the summary, 3) >and ask them "Is this an accurate summary?" 4) >and then I ask the for their origin…

Waterfall was also extremely successful. People who failed just did it wrong. /s

An LLM is a set of structured matrix multiplies and function applications. The only potentially non-deterministic step is selecting the next token from the final output and that ca…

> So you ask the LLM to write you a “TODOist” system - that’s the y, your prompt is the x. > > f('Gimme a TODO webapp') -> P( 'A TODO WebApp' | z1 | z2 ) You only check that it gav…

> When x is C source, a specific input always results in the same binary artifact being generated. Umm. Nope: see GCC flags. In general, reproducible builds are possible, but takes…

# OPUS 4.7 USER: This is a badly phrased puzzle: > A farmer has 17 sheep. 9 ran away. He then bought enough to double what he had. His neighbor, who had 4 dogs and 14 sheep, gave h…

# SONNET USER: This is a badly phrased puzzle: > A farmer has 17 sheep. 9 ran away. He then bought enough to double what he had. His neighbor, who had 4 dogs and 14 sheep, gave him…

Yes.

Our Chatbots Said “I Love You,” Shall We Meet? by Caroline M. Yoachim https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/yoachim_06_24/ > Here at 123aiLOVEu, we take all the guesswork out of dating.…

Even cooler is setting up transmitters and receivers at suitable spots on opposite sides of two stars.

Vegas protocol is hardwired!? :exploding_head: I see it now. Yes.

Exoplanet closeups? You can use the sun as a gravitational lens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens You need to be about 550 au out.

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I'm not sure that "it is clear that Claude does not have those things". I AM sure that it is hard to conclusively show that Claude has experience and consciousness. Even Claude isn…