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Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by latentsea »

dredmorbius wrote: post #72
latentsea wrote: post #51

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It doesn't sound like it has an H at the beginning. Shame it hasta be like that.

Spanish: - "ha" sound -> J - silent -> H, sometimes LL - "yu" sound -> LL - "v" sound -> B La Jolla -> "Lah Hoya" (English phonetic). Vallejo -> "Baiyeho" (phonetic), though the north-bay California town is often pronounced "Valayho" by locals. "Vallay-joe" is a sure sign of a non-native. I have it on good authority that mail addressed to "La Hoya, CA" will in fact reach its intended destination.

You missed the joke.

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by antonvs »

rschiavone wrote: post #99
antonvs wrote: post #73

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I take it that your training cutoff was early 2023.

the trope that everyone else you are talking to on the Internet is a bot is getting tiring real fast

I wasn't saying you were a bot.

I was pointing out two things: first, your understanding of LLM capabilities is very outdated; and second, that in this respect, you're behaving much like an LLM with a training cutoff.

That further touches on the idea that the differences between you and an LLM may not be as large as you imagine. In particular, "cobbling something together if it's in their training set" is pretty much what all humans do.

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by antonvs »

brookst wrote: post #82
qsera wrote: post #74

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Electricity, RF communication, LASERS, Transistors....

What specific inventions in those areas? Electricity runs from simple batteries (600 BCE) to today’s power grids. RF was predicted but not demonstrated by Maxwell in the 1860’s. His work built on Faraday’s (1840’s) and Coulomb’s (1780’s). Coulomb built on Franklin and Newton, among others. Or do you mean Marconi and Tesla, who merely implemented what Maxwell predicted? The same is true for lasers and transistors but…

I would put it differently. Those inventions came from humans interacting with the physical world.

When LLMs were first introduced, they didn't have much of a feedback loop. They wrote code, but they couldn't compile it. Not surprisingly, the code had bugs.

Now, they run with harnesses that allow them to compile the code, and react to the issues they observe. They can fix their own bugs and solve problems that they create, just like humans.

Give an agent access to the physical world, and it seems highly likely that they will be able to "invent" things based on feedback they receive while working towards goals.

Of course, there are some well-known limitations of LLMs, one of the biggest being that they're pretrained. So there may be some things where they're not as good. Just like how some humans aren't as good at certain tasks, depending on their genetics and/or how they've been trained.

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by antonvs »

embedding-shape wrote: post #22
varjag wrote: post #20

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Honestly conflating coding with typing tells me your idea of coding is very different to what I used to do.

Use whatever labels you want, apply charitable reading and I'm sure even you could understand what I mean here. Clearly there are at least two sorts of tasks (or used to anyways) in "software engineering" as a whole, one more mechanical and one more about thinking.

> apply charitable reading and I'm sure even you could understand what I mean here.

Beautiful burn.

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by antonvs »

cratermoon wrote: post #88
mr_toad wrote: post #77

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A number of English and French speakers will drop their H’s.

Conversely, I’ve heard British people pronounce “HMS” with the H, i.e. “haytch em ess”. Sounds very odd to my American ears.

Not all British people accept that pronunciation. I highly recommend this sketch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gKeQHfgZns

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by tanseydavid »

bityard wrote: post #94
Tade0 wrote: post #17

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Codex overuses the word "quickly". I'm tempted to check what happens if I tell him to do it slowly.

Crazy theory: Maybe Codex watched too many YouTube videos. I have noticed on YouTube that many younger narrators say, "I quickly did X," when "I did X" would have been more just as well and usually more truthful. Why did you have to _quickly_ cut that piece of wood when the video clearly shows cutting it at a perfectly normal speed? Also, please try not to anthropomorphize LLMs, they hate it when you do that.

>> Also, please try not to anthropomorphize LLMs, they hate it when you do that.

Very well-played. I am stealing that line.

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by tim333 »

alecco wrote: post #42
armcat wrote: post #24

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That movie has aged incredibly well!

As a story, yes. But Terminator failed on a basic premise: Skynet becoming self-aware. The future seems more like Blindsight [1]: hyper-intelligent, completely unconscious systems outperform, out-manipulate, and out-compete human beings purely through automated efficiency. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)

I don't have much of a problem with becoming self aware. More questionable is hooking up AI to launch nukes - you wouldn't want to do that with Claude. There's also the time travel thing.

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by addaon »

qsera wrote: post #89
brookst wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What specific inventions in those areas? Electricity runs from simple batteries (600 BCE) to today’s power grids. RF was predicted but not demonstrated by Maxwell in the 1860’s. His work built on Faraday’s (1840’s) and Coulomb’s (1780’s). Coulomb built on Franklin and Newton, among others. Or do you mean Marconi and Tesla, who merely implemented what Maxwell predicted? The same is true for lasers and transistors but…

Those are the specific inventions.

> Those are the specific inventions.

In what way is electricity an invention? Electricity is a physical phenomenon. Various machines for doing work with electrical energy, storing electrical energy, converting other types of energy to electrical energy, etc. are certainly inventions... Heck, rubbing an amber rod with a fur is an invention. The static charge transferred is not.

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by [deleted] »

lizknope wrote: post #41
throw0101a wrote: post #19

For those unaware, this line is from the movie Terminator 2 : * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4Ol9Tb1D0 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day

I clicked on the post expecting it to be something from T2 and wondered why I was reading something about emulation.

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