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They very often have been in the past. Why do you think this time is different?

So, does that mean they're selling tokens at cost ? Or that they realized they were doing 180% more work than necessary and they're passing the savings on because "your margin is m…

My favorite analogy for LLMs is "an intellectual chain saw". It does one thing, well, but that isn't "cut wood". It's "cut". What it cuts will happily include limbs.

So your point is "Get the hell out of LLMs" then? As found in https://sgnt.ai/p/hell-out-of-llms/ ? Or am I still missing something about the subtleties here?

> if a human operator starts dropping tables or messing up numbers in a report, just because that string was in the text it read I would look at if the reaction was reasonable, and…

> java.lang.String and other types don't extend JsonValue And that ladies and gentlemen is what Java's re-doing of TypeClasses (called "witness" in the experiments they're doing no…

Or the boolean `true`, or the empty string `""`, or `null`. JSON allows bare "value"s as the root element. https://www.json.org/json-en.html

Precisely - except you can get it to do the same thing about the flat earth or faked moon landings or the unity of all being as will or just about anything else.

> I do think a Reddit with identity would be a much less toxic place. Do you remember the days of "Real name" requirements on YouTube and "Google+"? The experiment was tried, it di…

Ah contraire, mon ami , I am currently in the process of doing just that in many places in my current codebase.

"The affliction" in his case is skin overgrowth, in the other its the dysphoria, right? But which is the moral way to cure either?

> If ones appearance contradicts ones inner sense of personhood, how can that person ever truly connect with other people? https://woforgmedia.wordonfire.org/wp-content/uploads/202…

> reliably catches >99% of bugs In what scope?

Humans are not "reduced" to biology. Their biology is presumed to "reveal" something about their personhood. And no matter how they feel about their hair, their hips, their eyes, e…

Well, he was an honored guest of the Pope for a while. Then he made fun of his host in a published book while claiming that he had a proof when he just had a theory and was told to…

> Certainly, the decisive turning points in world history are substantially co-determined by souls whom no history book ever mentions. And we will only find out about those souls t…

> Until it gets a software update, that is. The road performance of an average car AI only ever goes up. Aren't there stories about certain car companies where their self-driving-a…

The particularly worrying thing here is that they're now going to be gathering training data for a conversational model on _how to influence people effectively even when they alrea…

The wild thing is how much faster it is to load. I'd almost forgotten how fast Google's default search used to be. Thank you!

> The measure of our success is whether what we do enables people to understand and think more clearly and effectively about mathematics. I just wanted to highlight this very corre…

> you're just a next action generator controlled by trillions of cells and subconscious dna-based behavior. With moral agency and the ability to learn (even if we presume you are c…

And the fact that a transformer model can't distinguish between the two in the context of the sentence given is a point against the general nature of the intelligence.

Now that they've broken the ability to trust video, they're looking to build it back, as long as you're allowed to use the tools: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/ide…

Anthropic was talking about this as a "oh nifty, look at this" back in 2024: https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude The fact that steering one of these things is trivial…

The problem is that it amazingly easy to bias the weights and the actual size of the bias is tiny . So maintaining a per-user ad biased profile is cheap and profitable. I doubt tha…