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Latvian is a language, that's spoken by less than 2 million people. It's irrelevant outside of Latvia. All of our government funded researchers who worked on natural language processing can now throw their work in the trash and resign. ChatGPT is leagues better than anything that they've done. And OpenAI weren't even trying. Windows wasn't even localised in Latvian properly until very recently. Google translate still…
Quality machine translation for less common languages would be a service worth paying for. Any links to examples and evaluation of ChatGPT capabilities?
What it feels like to work in AI right now
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Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
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I mean Google revolutionized search. Apple revolutionized personal computing. OpenAI revolutionized… rewriting things with slightly different wording? I’ve seen so many breathless people posting “this would have taken me so long to search” and then I type 3 keywords from their massive prompt they crafted and find it instantly on Google. We’re talking 1000x or more faster. I feel like the same is happening in your com…
It’s a hype bubble for hundreds of years and saying that doesn’t make chatgpt worth any less. I have definitely been surprised by this and gotta say I’m expecting AGI a lot faster now. Even if literally all it did was predict what the average internet user would write in a certain context, that’s huge, cuz when you integrate all the little advantages of all the weird things one person knows another doesn’t, the colle…
> Who’s gonna trust a human doctor to diagnose their stuff if the human brain holds 9 things and the AI holds thousands?
I will. As another commenter says, the brain isn't limited to 9 things at all. There's no way that I'll trust the diagnosis of a machine that won't understand me.
If a doctor uses AI to help with research, that would be OK. Just so long as the doctor is actually the one doing the diagnosis and prescribing the treatment.
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"Who’s gonna trust a human doctor to diagnose their stuff if the human brain holds 9 things and the AI holds thousands?" The human brain can hold much more than 9 things and even though AI will be used in medicine broadly very soon, I really want the final diagnosis done by a human. Once true AGI arrieves, I might change my opinion, but that might take a while.
9 things is considered a standard for working memory (kind of like processor registers), for people with ADHD it's even less - 3-5. Try writing a number from one piece of paper to another. If it's more than 7-9 numbers, you won't do it in one shot, unless you spend extra time memorizing it.
That can be increased quite a bit with practice. But it's also not important. It's just the cache memory -- it isn't the limit of what can be learned and recalled.
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That's very cool, and right now it's a good idea, but I strongly suspect GPT only looks clever and does a good job in isolation . If everyone starts using it product announcements will start looking very similar, and they'll lose a lot of their impact. This is definitely the case with cover letters for jib applications. The ones written by GPT appear to be pretty obvious - my guesses could be wrong, but after seeing…
Question for you-given two identical candidates: One who does not submit a cover letter and one who submits a cover letter that was clearly written by chatgpt—which candidate would you rather interview? On one hand the duplicities involved with writing a chatgpt cover letter seem to be concerning in a new hire. On the other hand, it shows resourcefulness and going above the line. I’m tempted to say I’d prefer the gpt…
I'd probably roundfile the chatGPT one. A cover letter needs to be a personal communication from the candidate, not something machine-generated. The writing style is an important signal.
However, I would have zero issue if they used chatgpt to help compose their CV.
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Thanks for your comment, I think this is actually very helpful framing! It at least gives me something more tangible to think about—“micro tasks”.
I, too, have been experimenting a bit to see if/how an LLM might help me. This microtask framing jives with my experience. One of the best examples so far for me (and it's truly micro) was at grocery store. Friend trying to figure out how big of a rice bag to get and avoid not finishing it before a long trip coming up. She knew she ate a couple of cups dry a week. "I eat 2 cups dry rice per week. Can I finish a 25lb…
Really? You're using ChatGPT to do basic math you could easily do in your head?
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
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> it's really hard to see how this can lead to anywhere that isn't much worse for most people. It's very easy to see that, actually. Consider the problem statement again: economy is becoming more productive overall because we now have robots that can do some things that previously required people. This means that we can generate more total wealth for the same effort as before. That this translates to people being wor…
> That this translates to people being worse off, somehow, is a problem with the distribution of that generated wealth, not the ability to produce it. Exactly so. > Even a sensible implementation of UBI could fix the most immediate problem Which is simply not in the cards. The people who have the wealth are absolutely not going to give it away, because wealth equals power and they want power. So what is more likely t…
Many of the people who do have the wealth have been talking about UBI. Not out of the kindness of their heart, but because they understand that a world in which billions of people suddenly become "economically redundant" is also the world in which their mansions will burn, some quite possibly with their owners inside. Now, these guys mostly propose the "bare minimum" kind - effectively, just enough to prevent this scenario. But they can't argue for it without legitimizing the concept in general.
The bigger political problem in US specifically is just how hostile the public opinion is to anything that "stinks" of socialism. There's also the perception that AI is automating away "useless" white collar jobs, and not "real man's work". The right-wing intelligentsia who tries to sell UBI to their electorate is having a hard time getting past that, but I don't think it's insurmountable with the right approach, and it's also much less of an issue in most other countries. In any case, I think attitudes will change very quickly once more people outside of tech and art get first-hands experience with job loss, if not for themselves than for someone they know.
The harm between now and then is serious and real, yes. I just don't see any feasible way to prevent it through regulation, not to mention that it would face just as many political hurdles. We have already jumped; let's not waste time trying to flap our arms to see if that works, and try to arrange for a safe landing instead.
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
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ChatGPT is cool and novel, but FAANG's requirements for ML/AI go far beyond what ChatGPT provides as a product. ChatGPT is good at answering questions based on an older data set. FAANG typically requires up to date real time inference for huge rapidly changing data sets. Working on the practical side of ML/AI at FAANG, you will probably be working with some combination of feature stores, training platforms, inference…
Agreed. For my job maintaining real-time models with high business value to be disrupted by a chatbot, an LLM would have to be able to plug into our entire data ecosystem and yield insights in realtime. The backend engineering work required to facilitate this will be immense, and if the answer to that is "an LLM will create a new backend data architecture required to support the front-end prompt systems", then... wel…
Isn't this as straightforward as semantic search over an embedded corpus ? Unless i'm missing something, i don't think the backend engineering would take much
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
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> The advantage of using English (natural language that is), the humans around you tend to speak it. This is true, but of limited utility. English is so bad at this sort of thing that even native-speaking humans are constantly misunderstanding each other. Especially when it comes to describing things and giving instructions. That's why we have more formal languages (even ignoring programming languages) for when we ne…
That's the other nice thing about ChatGPT - if you say it something and it misunderstands, you can correct it by saying, "no, actually, what I meant is ...". Which, again, is how people generally do that kind of thing outside of programming. The advantage is that you're still remaining on a much higher level of abstraction. As far as formal languages... GPT doesn't know Lojban well, presumably because of its very sma…
> Which, again, is how people generally do that kind of thing outside of programming.
Yes, and with people, that's insufficient if you really need confidence of understanding.
There's a reason that lawyers speak legalese, doctors speak medicalese, etc. These are highly structured languages to minimize confusion.
Even in less technical interactions, when you need to be sure that you understand what someone else is saying, you are taught to rephrase what they said and tell it back to them for confirmation. And there's still a large margin of error even then.
This is why, whenever I have an important conversation at work, I always send an email to the person telling them what I understood from our exchange. In part to check if I understood correctly, but also so that I have a record of the exchange to cover my ass if things go sideways because we didn't understand each other, but thought we did.
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
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> That this translates to people being worse off, somehow, is a problem with the distribution of that generated wealth, not the ability to produce it. Exactly so. > Even a sensible implementation of UBI could fix the most immediate problem Which is simply not in the cards. The people who have the wealth are absolutely not going to give it away, because wealth equals power and they want power. So what is more likely t…
Many of the people who do have the wealth have been talking about UBI. Not out of the kindness of their heart, but because they understand that a world in which billions of people suddenly become "economically redundant" is also the world in which their mansions will burn, some quite possibly with their owners inside. Now, these guys mostly propose the "bare minimum" kind - effectively, just enough to prevent this sc…
> try to arrange for a safe landing instead.
That would be nice. I sincerely hope that we can swing that. I just don't see a realistic path for it. And almost everything that I've been hearing the enthusiasts say just makes everything seem more hopeless.
But I'm very much hoping that I'm wrong. At this point, hoping is the only thing I have the power to do.