Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

541–550 of 666 posts

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

#541

Post by ur-whale »

zackmorris wrote: post #413
alexb_ wrote: post #13

I have to wonder if 10 years down the line, everyone will be able to run models like this on their own computers. Have to wonder what the knock-on effects of that will be, especially if the models improve drastically. With so much of our social lives being moved online, if we have the easy ability to create fake lives of fake people one has to wonder what's real and what isn't. Maybe the dead internet theory will rea…

Unpopular opinion: something will stop egalitarian power for the masses. I had high hopes for multicore computing in the late 90s and early 2000s but it got blocked every step of the way by everyone doubling down on DSP (glorified vertex buffer) approaches on video cards, leaving us with the contrived dichotomy we see today between CPU and GPU. Whatever we think will happen will not happen. A less-inspired known-good…

You're an optimist.

Before any of the things you describe happen, most states will mandate the equivalent of a carry permit to be able to freely use compute for undeclared and/or unapproved purposes.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

#542

Post by [deleted] »

lostmsu wrote: post #475
dang wrote: post #431

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is either astounding ignorance or blatant gaslighting. Can you please edit name-calling / swipes like that out of your HN comments? It breaks the site guidelines and weakens your point. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Considering the importance of the topic, and provided the linked articles actually contained examples of Google censoring anti-war propaganda, I believe the swipe would have been fully justified. Highly emotional tone changes how the data affects the reader. If he is right, I would surely better remember next time that Google is in the same ballpark due to the insult hitting hard. If he is wrong, I will know better t…

[deleted]

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

#543

Post by dang »

lukestateson wrote: post #525

[flagged]

You've posted 7 highly repetitive comments taking this thread straight into flamewar hell. That's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it.

Hijacking top comments when flamebait hasn't succeeded in setting an entire thread on fire yet is particularly abusive.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31853016.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

#545

Post by xpl »

The_Colonel wrote: post #539
xpl wrote: post #532

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Yandex Search engine hides the pictures of Bucha and Irpin massacre as well as Kharkiv and Mariupol destruction That's just not true, try it yourself. It just does not display the latest images by default (though it's easily turned on in the filter settings), and that's why on the very day the news appeared on the Internet, people went crazy about that Yandex somehow "hides the truth"... > Yandex News service ignor…

> I suppose they can't just shut it down because the government threatens to nationalize Yandex in response They can destroy equipment, safely delete all the code repositories etc. beforehand, thus rendering the company useless before the nationalization. But $$$ is more important. > Can you please show any public statement from Yandex from which one could derive that? Yandex pays tens/hundreds of millions in taxes a…

> Yandex pays tens/hundreds of millions in taxes and thus finances the war.

So what? You shut down the business with 20k employees, on the grounds that you do not agree with local regulations or because the government did bad? That is as far from reality as it gets.

> But $$$ is more important

Yeah, I think preserving the company is more important than that proposed suicide move (that wouldn't have worked anyway because the company is just too huge).

It's not just money, it's people, it's culture, it's all the great projects the company does.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

#546

Post by dang »

bpodgursky wrote: post #415
ginjas wrote: post #409

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I reject the false equivalence of the DHS and FSB. Not gonna both-sides this, sorry. lmao mkay. Not identical, but very similar. It's not even 'Alex Jones'-tier to say this. I think you forget you are if you are under US or (even NATO). YOU WILL hear propaganda from your side, as the Russians do. It's NORMAL. We live under control of a hegemon with self-interests. May I have to remind you of these? And tell me the d…

Yeah, you could go on, but you get paid per post, not per word.

You broke the site guidelines badly here. The rules apply regardless of how wrong another comment is or you feel it is. We've had to warn you about this kind of thing a lot. If you keep doing it, we're going to end up having to ban you, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

#547

Post by dang »

ginjas wrote: post #409
bpodgursky wrote: post #400

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quoted post unavailable.

>I reject the false equivalence of the DHS and FSB. Not gonna both-sides this, sorry. lmao mkay. Not identical, but very similar. It's not even 'Alex Jones'-tier to say this. I think you forget you are if you are under US or (even NATO). YOU WILL hear propaganda from your side, as the Russians do. It's NORMAL. We live under control of a hegemon with self-interests. May I have to remind you of these? And tell me the d…

Would you please stop posting flamewar comments and using HN for ideological battle? We ban accounts that do those things, and you've already been doing it repeatedly.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

#548

Post by [deleted] »

rllearneratwork wrote: post #449
whimsicalism wrote: post #448

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Should we assume language models released by Twitter have injected content praising Hunter Biden?

No. read my message again. As I said, we should assume good intention first until proven otherwise. But we should have better tools to test for biases/toxicity. Perspective API is great tool for toxicity detection. But I'm not aware of any "propoganda" detection tool.

[deleted]

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

#549

Post by mrguyorama »

dTal wrote: post #186
rasz wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You really dont want to live in Mindwarp (1992 Bruce Campbell movie) or in this !114! year old short story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

The Machine Stops is eerily prescient - or perhaps just keenly observant of trends visible even at the time - but in fairness the humans in it are not socially isolated, as such; they do not converse with bots, but rather with each other. The primary social activity in the The Machine Stops is the Zoom meeting. I do not look forward to the day when that story becomes an optimistic view of the future.

That story is already an optimistic view compared to our own: They have no ads

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

#550

Post by abra0 »

narrator wrote: post #508

I love Yandex. They are the best search engine by far for politically controversial topics. They also release a language model to benefit everyone even if it says politically incorrect stuff. They also name their projects "cocaine" probably to perhaps to prevent western competitors from using them. You look at OpenAI and how they don't release their models mainly because they fear "bad people" will use them for "bad…

>They are the best search engine by far for politically controversial topics.

This is an interesting take given the political censorship in Russia (for some ineffable reason much harsher now than it used to be 4 months ago) and cases like https://twitter.com/kevinrothrock/status/1510944781492531208.

Post reply on HN