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Post by nathan_compton »

exogenousdata wrote: post #373
lethologica wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have ADHD and it almost acts as a body double for me, which I find to be incredibly helpful to get things done.

GPT-4 got me seriously considering making a product for school-age kids w/ ADHD. It’d be a physical device (like a StarTrek communicator). That listens during your day and keeps track of a) things you say that you’ll do or b) tasks that other people ask you to do. Then it compiles those tasks and attempts to be basically a secretary. It can also plug into your email, texts & school assignments. The privacy implicatio…

Marshall MacLuhan said something to the effect that every new communication technology results in a sort of self-amputation of that same faculty in the individual person.

I was diagnosed with ADHD and my interpretation of that diagnoses was not "I need something to take over this functionality for me," but "I need to develop this functionality so that I can function as a better version of myself or to fight against a system which is not oriented towards human dignity but some other end."

I guess I am reluctant to replace the unique faculties of individual children with a generic faculty approved by and concordant with the requirements of the larger society. How dismal to replace the unique aspects of children's minds with a cookie cutter prosthetic meant to integrate nicely into our bullshit hell world. Very dismal.

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Post by homebrewer »

Fade_Dance wrote: post #553
esafak wrote: post #276

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I'm from a high inflation country. Let's see your evidence of use in such countries, since you are throwing numbers out.

First of all, you are the one who stated this as a fact, and then provided only anecdotal evidence in support of the broad claim. Your singular limited experience in one country cannot blindly extend to all such countries, so the onus is on you to provide support for your claim. ____________ I was also under the impression that adoption was fairly strong in many of these regions, and after looking into it, I see far…

Using relative growth is one of the favorite tricks of hucksters that allows them to say "100% growth over the last year" to hide the fact of it growing from $5 to $10.

I don't really care enough about this to do proper research, but as another anecdote from someone living under 40% yearly inflation: nobody here gives a shit about cryptocurrencies. Those who can afford it buy foreign stock, houses and apartments; those who cannot, buy up whatever USD and EUR we can find.

Cryptocurrency was used by very few people for short-term speculation around 5 years ago, but even that died down to nothing.

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Post by zeroonetwothree »

vbezhenar wrote: post #264

In the past, rich people had horses, while ordinary people walked. Today many ordinary people can afford a car. Can afford a tasty food every day. Can afford a sizeable living place. Can afford to wash two times a day with hot water. That's incredible life by medieval standards. Even kings didn't have everything we take for granted now. However some things are not available to us. One of those things is personal assi…

To be fair most people don’t have as complicated a life that they really need a personal assistant. How much would it really save you per day? 30 min? I mean that’s not nothing but it’s not revolutionary either. And of course there is the principal-agent problem so it’s not always a strict upgrade.

For example, at my work people managers get admin assistants but most ICs do not, even at the same level. I think it’s fine, the value for me would be very low and I doubt it’s a good use of company resources.

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Post by IanCal »

9rx wrote: post #136
IanCal wrote: post #128

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No one agrees on what agi means. IMO we’re clearly there, gpt5 would easily be considered agi years ago. I don’t think most people really get how non-general things were that are now handled by the new systems. Now agi seems to be closer to what others call asi. I think k the goalposts will keep moving.

Definitions do vary, but everyone agrees that it requires autonomy. That is ultimately what sets AGI apart from AI. The GPT model alone does not offer autonomy. It only acts in response to explicit input. That's not to say that you couldn't built autonomy on top of GPT, though. In fact, that appears to be exactly what Pulse is trying to accomplish. But Microsoft and OpenAI's contractual agreements state that the auto…

I really disagree on the autonomy side. In fact the Wikipedia page explicitly says that’s not required so whether you agree with that concept or not it’s not a universal point.

> The concept does not, in principle, require the system to be an autonomous agent; a static model—such as a highly capable large language model—or an embodied robot could both satisfy the definition so long as human‑level breadth and proficiency are achieved

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> That is ultimately what sets AGI apart from AI.

No! The key thing was that it was general intelligence rather than things like “bird classifier” or “chess bot”.

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Post by dangus »

This product is accidentally demonstrating why today’s mediocre AI products like Apple Intelligence will be the eventual winners in the market.

ChatGPT can’t become more useful until it’s integrated into your OS. The OS is what has the potential to provide a safe framework (APIs) to share data with an AI system.

Being able to hook up Gmail and Google Calendar is nice but kinda useless if you have any of the other thousands of providers for email and calendar.

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Post by caleb-allen »

And this is where I'm tapping out.

Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost completely controlled by them. The challenge, then, is to actually operate independent of the technology and the company.

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Post by anonbuddy »

jstummbillig wrote: post #522
infinitezest wrote: post #387

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The downside is that we're funneling our money and information to a very small number of people. As the imbalance grows, there is less and less reason for the rich people to give a shit about what the not so rich people think or want for their lives. Short term, woo hoo. Long term, not great.

I agree that it feels wrong, but I am increasingly unconvinced that it's a problem (or at least: I don't know what the problem exactly is). Life around the world keeps improving on most every metric, while all these mega corps keep growing. I am not saying they are the reason this is happening, or that it would be even better without them — I don't know in either case. What makes me suspicious: Is there a certain num…

'I don't know what the problem exactly is'

the problem is that western civilisation is so far up their asses with capitalism that they think that some corporation cares about them (users).

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Post by dvcoolarun »

I don’t think this is the world we were envisioning, where leading companies are suggesting content, tracking our history, and feeding us more socially optimized streams just to keep us hooked and give us dopamine hits.

What I’d prefer is something like dailyflow (I saw it on HN yesterday): a local LLM that tracks my history and how I’m spending my time, then gives me hints when I’m off track — more aligned with what I actually want to see and where I want to go.

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Post by caleb-allen »

ensocode wrote: post #498

In the beginning, I was really curious about ChatGPT—a tool that could save me from useless blogs, pushy products, and research roadblocks. Then it started asking follow-up questions, and I got a bit uneasy… where is this trying to take me? Now it feels like the goal is to pull me into a discussion, ultimately consulting me on what? Buy something? Think something? It’s sad to see something so promising turn into an a…

Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost completely controlled by them and "escaping" becomes a near-impossible task.

It's as if OpenAI saw that as an instruction manual, I really don't like the direction they're taking it.

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Post by Pocomon »

Might as well call it WokeGPT as the results invariable lean to the left of diversity. You get a mini woke sermon at the end of each results. just in case you guilty of wrong thought.
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