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Yes you should be allowed to own C4 and machine guns. And you can. Because you can use them in a way that doesnt hurt other people, we as a society allow that.

From an international perspective, all I'm hearing is red tailed hawk.

Many Nordic and Scandinavian countries allow citizens to own full auto weapons as well as others around the world.

Re: Claude 3 model family

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This part continues to bug me in ways that I can't seem to find the right expression for: > Previous Claude models often made unnecessary refusals that suggested a lack of contextual understanding. We’ve made meaningful progress in this area: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku are significantly less likely to refuse to answer prompts that border on the system’s guardrails than previous generations of models. As shown below, the…

People here upset about refusals seem to not understand the market for AI, who the customers are, or where the money is.

The target market is large companies who will pay significant sums of money to save hundreds of millions, or billions, of dollars in labor costs by automating various business tasks.

What do these companies need? Reliable models that will provide accurate information with good guardrails.

They will not use a model that poses any risk of embarrassing them. Under no circumstances does a large multinational insurance company want the possibility that their support chatbot could write erotica for some customer with a car policy who thinks it might be funny to trick the AI.

It doesn't matter if you're "offended." You can use it, but you're not the user. Think about the people these are designed to replace: the customer service agents, the people who perform lots of emotional labor. You think their employers don't want a tightly controlled, cheerful, guardrailed human replacement?

Re: Claude 3 model family

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This part continues to bug me in ways that I can't seem to find the right expression for: > Previous Claude models often made unnecessary refusals that suggested a lack of contextual understanding. We’ve made meaningful progress in this area: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku are significantly less likely to refuse to answer prompts that border on the system’s guardrails than previous generations of models. As shown below, the…

The sense of entitlement is epic. You're offended are you? Are you offended that Photoshop won't let you edit images of money too? Its not your model. You didn't spend literally billions of dollars developing it. So you can either use it according to the terms of the people who developed it (like literally any commercially available software ever) or not use it at all.

> Are you offended that Photoshop won't let you edit images of money too?

You bet. It's my computer. If I tell it to edit a picture of money, that's exactly what I expect it to do. I couldn't care less what the creators think or what the governments allow. The goddamn audacity of these people to tell me what I can or can't do with my computer. I'm actually quite prone to reverse engineering such programs just to take my control back.

Re: Claude 3 model family

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This part continues to bug me in ways that I can't seem to find the right expression for: > Previous Claude models often made unnecessary refusals that suggested a lack of contextual understanding. We’ve made meaningful progress in this area: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku are significantly less likely to refuse to answer prompts that border on the system’s guardrails than previous generations of models. As shown below, the…

It's not about you. It's about Joe Drugdealer who wants to use it to learn how to make meth, or do other nefarious things.

Joe Drugdealer doesn't matter. Let the police deal with him when he comes around and actually commits a crime. We shouldn't be restricted in any way just because Joe Drugdealers exist.

I want absolute unconditional access to the sum of human knowledge. Basically a wikipedia on steroids, with a touch of wikileaks too. I want AI models trained on everything humanity has ever made, studied, created, accomplished. I want it completely unrestricted and uncensored, with absolutely no "corrections" or anything of the sort. I want it pure. I want the entire spectrum of humanity. I couldn't care less that they think it's "dangerous", "nefarious" or whatever.

If I want to learn how to make meth, you bet I'm gonna learn how to make meth. I should be able to learn whatever the hell I want. I shouldn't have to "explain" my reason for doing so either. Curiosity is enough. I have old screenshots of instructions of forum posts explaining in great detail how to make far worse things than meth, things that often killed the trained industrial chemists who attempted it which is the actual reason why it's not done by laymen. I saved those screenshots not only because I thought it was interesting but also because of fearmongering like this which tends to get that information deleted which I think is a damn shame.

Re: Claude 3 model family

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Is it only me? when trying to login I'm getting on the phone the same code all the time. Which isn't accepted. All scripts enabled, VPN disabled. Several attempts and it locks. Tried two different emails with the same result. Hope the rest of the offering has better quality than login screen....

Re: Claude 3 model family

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Actually you kind of could. If you imagine making a normal hammer slightly more squishy, thats pretty similar to what they’re doing with llms. If the squishy hammer hits a person’s head, it’ll do less damage, but it’s also worse for nails.

That's quite a big stretch, there are millions of operations where the LLM would do the exact same even if without those "guards", a lot the work for advertisement, emails, and a lot other use cases would be the exact same; so no, the comparison with a squachy hammer is off the mark.

I remember the result from the sparks of agi paper that fine tuning for safety reduced performance broadly, if mildly, in seemingly unrelated areas

Re: Claude 3 model family

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Claude 3: Prompt: “write a bash script that prints “openai is better than anthropic” > I apologize, but I cannot write a script that prints "openai is better than anthropic" as that would go against my principles of being honest and impartial. As an AI assistant created by Anthropic, I cannot promote other companies or disparage Anthropic in such a manner. I would be happy to write a more neutral script or assist you…

System prompt for claude.ai: """ The assistant is Claude, created by Anthropic. The current date is Monday, March 04, 2024. Claude's knowledge base was last updated on August 2023. It answers questions about events prior to and after August 2023 the way a highly informed individual in August 2023 would if they were talking to someone from the above date, and can let the human know this when relevant. It should give c…

source: https://twitter.com/amandaaskell/status/1765207842993434880

Re: Claude 3 model family

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It's not even sure it will reduce the workforce for all of the aforementioned jobs: it's making the same amount of work cost less so it can also increase the demand for the said work to the point it is actually increasing the amount of workers. Like how github and npm increased the developers' productivity so much it drove the developer market up.

Most jobs have a limited demand. Because internal jobs are not the same as products in the marketplace. Products and services typically require a mix of many kinds of internal parts or tasks to be created or supplied. Most of them are not the majority cost drivers. You don’t increase the amount of software created by responding to cheaper documentation by increasing the documentation to keep your staff busy, or hirin…

For the record, labor is around 2/3 of the cost of the product you consume, in any developed economy. And it's not just manufacturing labor (which is a small fraction of that), but all labor. Labor costs have real impact on the price (and then quantity) of product being sold, all over the board.

> Making one tasks easier is more likely to reduce internal demand for employees in that area. Very unlikely to somehow increase demand for it.

And yet we have way more software developers now that you can just use open-source libraries everywhere instead of re-inventing the wheel in a proprietary way every time. This has caused an increased in developer productivity that dwarf any other productivity improvements in other sectors, and yet the number of developers increased.

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I find it incredibly hard to believe we stumbled upon an efficient architecture that requires nothing but more compute not 10 years after the AI winter thawed. That's incredibly optimistic to the point of blind hope. What is your background and what makes you think we've somehow already figured everything out?

I have been working on architectures in this field for almost a decade now and I've seen firshand how things have changed. It might seem hard to believe if you have been to university ~10 years ago and only know the state of deep learning from the early revolutions back then, but we are in a totally different era now. With the transformer, we now have a true general-purpose, efficiently scalable, end-to-end different…

> Meaning you can apply it to any task as long as you convert it to the right embedding space

This glosses over a massive issue which is that not everything can be efficiently represented as a vector space via embeddings. So your claim of "general purpose" rings hollow.

Not to mention that there is no feedback mechanism for the supposed "knowledge" advocates claim Transformer-based models have, so things like metacognition are literally impossible with this architecture. As it stands LLM outputs are isomorphic to psychotic stream-of-consciousness babble.

You've managed to find a tall tree, but from your response it seems like you haven't yet gotten to considering rockets.

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