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> AI lacks insight and lack of insight is what can turn a succulent feast of a life into biweekly deliveries of Soylent. Does a picture of a humming bird lack insight? Does collage…

No. His critique is one of process, not of output quality. He is asserting the existence of an "unconscious human spirit", asserting that ChatGPT "is fast-tracking the commodificat…

> A question is, is it possible to advance technology to fulfill the green revolution without changing the value of human creativity due to the creation/advancement of genAI? I hav…

> This technology is a collage tool, and it's great, but it doesn't make anyone a creator. If you believe it does, you're in for a rough awakening. Hannah Höch would like a word.

> we had a much better connection with what it meant to be human when we were tilling dirt and making clay pots and weaving cloth for each other Actually, I agree. I think Nick Cav…

Nick Cave is expressing a personal loss, and I believe that he truly feels that loss. But to me, this letter reads roughly like: "if I were the server or the bouncer instead of the…

I agree on both points. Was just engaging with the legal aspect because that's what this thread was about. But now we've converged to the actual reason the author should probably c…

...I think you missed the point. OAI/MS can sue the author or at least cut off API access. If that happens, the fact that OAI is under fire from NYT doesn't somehow obviate the aut…

Yes, but opposite conclusion. If I were the author I'd never do this because I would want an exit and this strategy + twitter thread wildly complicates any potential exit. Even tho…

And NYT is suing OAI/MS. Two wrongs don't make a right... or maybe they do, but that doesn't immunize you from legal fees or a botched exit :)

Or just... write 100 good prompt-repsonse pairs yourself. 2024 will be the year of synthetic data. 2025 will be the year of "you know you can use your own brain and type out 100 da…

The academic work is pretty safe as long as it isn't productized. The open models have a prime facie case to stand on. Using output is okay if you aren't directly competing with op…

This is a flagrantly blatant violation of OpenAI's terms of use for businesses [1]. I have two issues with those terms: 1. I think that eventually US courts will determine one of t…

I read this in 2013 and remember enjoying the back-and-forth. Some reflections, a decade of life experience and a tech cycle later: 1. I'm with McKenzie on the coworkers aspect of …

Only a relatively tiny sliver of PhDs doing top-tier ML research are in groups that care about publishing at corps the care about publishing in academic conferences.

> Honestly, is there a big difference anymore? Only a very small subset of industry cares about academic publishing, and even within that subset it's only a fraction of groups at a…

Hence "lower bound".

Or just leave academia. In the US at least, the job is like 80% government contracting and 20% teaching. Teaching is great, so there's that. But literally every company will let yo…

The open secret is that top-quartile R1 CS faculty positions aren't coveted anymore and don't attract the best like they used to. The choice is now between increasingly tenuous/mea…

the obvious: the manager is being sloppy. Whether they are correct or not is irrelevant; thinking and writing clearly about these issues is literally this person's entire day job. …

>> Programming requires a lot more formal rigor than mathematical proof writing. > This is is just wrong? Syntax rigour has almost nothing to do with correctness. 1. It's all fine …

I think you entirely missed the point. GP put it well: >> They are conceptually/abstractly rigorous, but in "implementation" are incredibly sloppy. Maturity in concept-space and th…

My driving commute is 20 minutes. My cycling commute is 35 minutes (with significant effort). The average drive-tru time at Starbucks is 5 minutes. Add in a 5 minute detour off the…

Universities do not have a monopoly on education or on learning. You can go teach someone today, no questions asked. You can even charge them for the favor, if you want. Universiti…

> overpriced would be if it costs $8k but is sold at $12k. Instead the pricing is crippling, and instead of 8k it's 48k The average college tuition and fees at four-year schools in…