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vakkermans
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Comment #44139719
…Who is a pedant.
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Comment #43544539
I appreciate the attempt at making sense of conversational interfaces, but I don't think natural language as a "data transfer mechanism" is a productive way of doing it. Natural la…
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I quoted the bit I wanted to react to, namely the idea that businesses have to give customers what they want. I read that as strongly influenced by an economically driven - rather …
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Comment #41953024
> Newspapers are a business and have to give their customers what they want. I really want to challenge this idea. Businesses can have missions quite distinct from what the majorit…
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Comment #38623204
Well put! Donald Schön’s work on this topic is really enlightening. It’s not just that there’s knowledge in the heads of people that can’t be linguistically expressed well, but als…
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Comment #38573691
Finding a proof is a search in a large space, akin to searching from abstractions to concretions. LLMs don’t do anything like this, and so you’re looking at the planning problem ag…
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Comment #38515980
I remain sceptical about any form of combination of reinforcement learning and LLMs. Acting successfully in the world when faced with complex issues requires learning useful ad-hoc…
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Comment #32661073
Yes!
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MXX Music | Software developer (C++/Qt/QML) | London, full-time | https://www.mxxmusic.com MXX Music develops AI music editing technology. We are currently developing our Audition …