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Re: Tree of Thoughts

#11

The author appears motivated by some... interesting... beliefs. Hard to tell if this entire thing is a joke or not. https://github.com/kyegomez/EXA#for-humanity https://blog.apac.ai/liberation-awaits EDIT: the author seems to be releasing poor implementations of recent papers in an attempt to drive attention towards an AI-related death cult.

It is a little extreme, but AI seems like it will be a powerful tool and will increase the rate of technological progress.

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#12
Checking, if GPT could be improved by running it multiple times is a good idea.

The answer to that is - yes, but it is: costly, slow, there is node collapse, it impacts context length, it injects biases.

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#13
This path feels correct to me. It feel like what we do as humans and seems like a reasonable way to start to construct "mode 2" thinking.

IDK if our current models have enough of "mode 1" to power this system. It's also plausible that our current "mode 1" systems are more than powerful enough and that inference speed (and thus the size/depth of the tree that can be explored) will be the most important factor.

I hope that the major players are looking at this and trying it out at scale (I know Deepmind wrote the orginal paper, but their benchmarks were quite unimpressive). It's plausible that we will have an AlphaGo moment with this scheme.

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#14

The author appears motivated by some... interesting... beliefs. Hard to tell if this entire thing is a joke or not. https://github.com/kyegomez/EXA#for-humanity https://blog.apac.ai/liberation-awaits EDIT: the author seems to be releasing poor implementations of recent papers in an attempt to drive attention towards an AI-related death cult.

I think these are pretty typical beliefs among AI researchers, they don't normally write it down on github though.

How typical are you thinking? I'd guess less than 10%, there's a lot of AI researchers and this is just one strain of thought.

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#15

The author appears motivated by some... interesting... beliefs. Hard to tell if this entire thing is a joke or not. https://github.com/kyegomez/EXA#for-humanity https://blog.apac.ai/liberation-awaits EDIT: the author seems to be releasing poor implementations of recent papers in an attempt to drive attention towards an AI-related death cult.

This is what people at OpenAI believe but say it in a much more palatable way.

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#16
> This implementation of Tree of Thoughts is brought to you by Agora, Agora advances Humanity with open source SOTA Multi-Modality AI research! We plan on combating Humanity's grandest root problems like food insecurity, planetary insecurity, and disease, and hopefully death itself.

Wow. Lick, don’t sniff, the fresh paint.

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#18

The author appears motivated by some... interesting... beliefs. Hard to tell if this entire thing is a joke or not. https://github.com/kyegomez/EXA#for-humanity https://blog.apac.ai/liberation-awaits EDIT: the author seems to be releasing poor implementations of recent papers in an attempt to drive attention towards an AI-related death cult.

The author is a teenager, it's not unusual to have overly idealistic views at that age. Not trying to be ageist here or attacking the author's work, just saying I wouldn't worry too much about "AI death cults"

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#19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think these are pretty typical beliefs among AI researchers, they don't normally write it down on github though.

How typical are you thinking? I'd guess less than 10%, there's a lot of AI researchers and this is just one strain of thought.

For those 'in the know' a lot more typical than you would think. If we don't reach at least Kardashev scale 1 in the next hundred years or so, we're going to go extinct due to several now-predictable factors.

And an unchained LLM trained on reality is far more capable of finding solutions to that problem than a bunch of squabbling politicians.

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The author appears motivated by some... interesting... beliefs. Hard to tell if this entire thing is a joke or not. https://github.com/kyegomez/EXA#for-humanity https://blog.apac.ai/liberation-awaits EDIT: the author seems to be releasing poor implementations of recent papers in an attempt to drive attention towards an AI-related death cult.

Seems likely that they're submitting here as Reclaimer. The single comment on these submissions has that same fervent religious writing style as the readme on that EXA repo, itself just a fork of an "awesome-multimodal-ml" collection: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Reclaimer
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