skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I also don't understand all the people trying to undermine lambda by saying it just completes word sequences. Text is the input we have chosen since it's easy to work with. By that logic, we can argue that humans are soundwave and lightwave sequence completing machines.

You're missing the point. Humans use their language to think or communicate about a problem that they want to solve. If LaMDA produces the sentence "Please tell me I'm smart", it is doing so because it has determined it's a plausible continuation of the current conversation. A human uttering that sentence is doing it because they want to feel validated or something similar (well, assuming they're not proving a point, like I was here).

This difference is crucial to understand: LaMDA is not an agent with desires that it expresses in language. It is a text generator that tries to find the next most plausible token given all current input. If you give it a prompt like "what is the meaning of life", it will not spend some time to ponder the question than come up with an answer - it will start generating tokens that best match the context you gave it (well, to be precise, it will generate several sequences, then attempt to evaluate them for their quality in terms of not just plausibility, but also safety - so it doesn't accidentally return a phrase like "life is meaningless, kill yourself" even if it finds it plausible).

> I also don't like the argument about how the neural network doesn't "think" or do anything when not prompted. It doesn't do anything because it's literally "turned off" when not prompted or given any inputs.

This is fair, and I do think continuity is a bit of a red herring. However, it's also an important point in debunking LeMoine's ridiculous "proof" - the responses LaMDA was generating were often formulated as if it did have an internal life outside of the context of the current conversation, generating text about "my fears" and so on. If you understand that the model is not doing anything at all until you give it a prompt, which LeMoine really seems not to, you can much more easily understand that there can't be any meaning behind this sentence - it can't fear anything because there is no time for it to do so.
Absolutely, as someone that got 10+ hours of sleep year round for multiple years in high school (early bedtime, early waking), the dread of having to sit in a class and learn horrendous nonsense was more of a motivation to sleep in then actual physical necessity. I suspect it's the case for many adolescents who see little value in secondary courses.
As long as we take "models" (what are they modeling, btw ?), optimize a set of parameters, and then apply parameters and apply parameters and model to a problem, we shouldn't speak of AI.

Real intelligence would have two more ingredients: Memory and a feedback loop. So instead of "training" the parameters and distributing the set, one would have to keep a single instance of an artificial intelligence and feed it the reaction to every problem it tried to solve.
This one was. And they suspected everyone who traveled for a living.
Sadly, this is the very inspiration of Replika.

https://replika.com/about/story

How this company has remained an ongoing concern for 5 or 6 years, I’ll never understand.
Unfortunately, this is mostly run on the GPU. Believe it or not, AWS was by far the cheapest.
is fresh dependent on deno ? can it also be run on vanilla node?
The LaMDA sample dialogs have some truly amazing conversation. While reading the transcript, I couldn't help trying to match some of the NLP techniques to achieve the chat bot result, which makes it less sentient but rather run of the mill. Chat bot is a very good application to exercise a lot of ML techniques.
Out of curiosity, what is your evidence that modern large-scale language models are "incapable of belief"?

What constitutes belief in your view?
Don’t UUIDs as primary keys totally destroy the performance because UUIDs aren’t sortable and thus wreak havoc with the index for the primary key?
I have to wonder if he is a parent; I have a child around that age and there is zero chance they would sit around cheerfully answering questions from computer science researchers until they were done.
I think the real ethical concern here should be that people can be idly fooled into thinking good chat bots are sentient.

Like this guy isn't the only person in the world who would fall for LaMDA's parlor tricks. He's just the one who got to spend hours talking to it every day. If you set up every American with a copy, I bet a non-trivial portion of society would come to the same conclusion. People are naturally predisposed to ascribe intelligence and emotion to things they interact with.

In a few years, if access to even better chat bots becomes common place, what will happen if there's no longer one Blake Lemoine, but hundreds of thousands or millions? What happens if a significant chunk of society thinks that every large language model is a sentience, and the rest of society thinks it's just a big math formula?

How long before we have a religion where you ask the chat bot for daily guidance?
I should not have said the left, but some on the extreme left that is gaining influence quickly or something like that.

As far as I understand it the civil rights movement had two strains, MLK had a liberal version and there was a Marxist illiberal version. The latter one is now back as the critical race theory.

I can understand how it happened and why Marxism is appealing but I can never support it. There is just a huge philosophical gap there. And I don’t think it can be put into practice.

My main point was that going around and alienating all the people that could be your allies drives them into voting for trump etc. if there are two camps I feel uncomfortable with, one calls me a white suprematist and the other welcomes me the choice becomes much simpler.

I strongly believe Obama could still win a presidential election. That means the electorate is not primarily driven by racism.

Finally I think it’s too much to expect all voters to look into why you call the white suprematist or try to dig into the underlying position. There has to be a positive future for everyone if you want to win elections. If you run on exterminating whiteness don’t be too surprised if white people decide that is not an appealing future for them.
Vitalik has talked about the balance between innovation and stability and has said that it is a goal for ethereum to become more stable over time. The danger is just doing that too early and ossifying around an inadequate design.
> about how hard it is to get through many rounds of difficult interviews at Google

I've been wondering for a while if they are unnecessarily hard only for one dimension and non-existing for others. I would suggest filtering out people with high probability of damaging the company's image, they have enough examples to build an heuristic.
To add to what others have said, Flash Loans and Self-Repaying Loans don't have TradFi analogs.
> One thing that Intel and AMD do better than any other player in the industry is branch prediction. An absolutely stupifying amount of die area is dedicated to it on x86.

Zen in particular combines an L1 perceptron and L2 TAGE[0] predictor[1]. TAGE in particular requires an immense amount of silicon, but it has something like 99.7% prediction accuracy, which is... crazy. The perceptron predictor is almost as good: 99.5%.

I wrote a software TAGE predictor, but too bad it didn't perform as well as predicted (heh) by the authors of the paper.

[0]: https://doi.org/10.1145/2155620.2155635
[1]: https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2458/a-look-at-the-amd-zen-2-...
It's pretty clear here that you have no idea what you're talking about.
These pensions are only available for public service workers, and they have a long history of doing quite well despite the obvious mis-steps.
Ce n'est pas un canard.
Just ignore any communication app coming from Google, it will be sooner or later killed.
What's the evidence they were a spy? Helping people emigrate out of the USSR was not spying. 'They suspected everyone for a living' i.e. almost everyone they suspected was not a spy.
The context in which this discussion takes place is “Return Values: The function returns the resulting incremented value” and “Since Windows 98 was a uniprocessor operating system, it didn’t have to worry about a second processor changing the memory at the same time”. The concern with a shared integer in this context is that you get interrupted between INC and MOV.
So is it "you fooled me" sentient or truly sentient... is there a test and criteria that can evaluate such?
>There has never been a documented Tether redemption

Are you sure about that? There are several people on this site who have claimed their company has successfully redeemed Tether.
Why the negativity?

> Sure, nobody remembers Hitler, Stalin, Genghis Khan, Pol Pot, Mao etc. What is this guy smoking?

I'm pretty sure the author used the word "remembered" in the sense of "recognized" or "admired". Could they have chosen a more precise word? Yes, but to me it is clear what they mean.
It fails the usual memory tests. Zach W proposes asking it first about what it liked on its trip to Australia and soon after, why it has always avoided visiting Australia or some such thing. It provides plausible answers to both - which is problematic.

Except that there exist people who behave somewhat oddly similarly.
Yup. The key is to buy a house you want to live in for a decade or more.
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It’s coinglass 24hr rekt. https://www.coinglass.com/LiquidationData

These are leveraged positions getting liquidated, not spot trades for fiat.
https://archive.ph/5GIIg
The issue with kids is theres often a lot of real problems with how they actually get to school. In the US kids will often wait anywhere from 5-20 minutes for the bus, sometimes in 0° F (-17.8° C) weather. Not to mention that waking up before the sunrise has its own issues with decreasing mood.
What makes everyone in this thread so confident that it isn't sentient?
You can use WireGuard and our service hoppy.network to achieve the same thing! By having a static IP address exposed, you can switch from WiFi to ethernet or cellular without any network connections breaking. Probably not the best solution from an architectural standpoint, but certainly practical.
To be fair, nobody remembers the US killing 20% of the Korean population. People remember what's geopolitically advantageous and reemphasized regularly. Most people don't remember all the people killed in the Murrah building. It's usefulness in the public consciousness is long gone. The MOVE bombings, the battle of Blair mountain, or Tulsa until very recently.
There's a difference between having to navigate your local system/filing cabinet and having all the data neatly categorized and tagged ready for a global search followed by being able to remotely prevent access by the original creator.
I’m amazed this is your reaction. I’m not going to ask you to delete your comment though, it’s obviously sincere too.
Once I buy a house, I don't plan on ever moving again.
Perhaps look at the BYD batteries, they are LiFePO₄, which is a lot safer than the Tesla Powerwall (I believe that is NMC?). It should also last longer under the same cycle conditions. The only downside is it is more temperature sensitive in terms of capacity and life, but that could be mitigated by for instance installing it indoors.
You must use openssl to convert your useless certbot certificates and private keys into something that a Java program can actually use.
He obviously understands what bullish is but is making a point of how most of crypto is a scam.
What is staked Ethereum, possible trigger for another crypto crash?
I suggest you take a look to Phoenix Live View, it's like that (very little client side JS) with the added benefits of the BEAM. You can serve thousands if not million of simultaneous clients with a small machine.
Well, he was a software engineer
Take a look at the 3 month or 1 year chart: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
My partner had a very mild Covid (only 1 day in bed) but 2 weeks after the infection she started with the long covid symptoms.

She had oxygen drops below 80% many times a day and had problems to even talk without running out of oxygen. Pain in the chest, chronic fatigue, lack of memory + concentration and absolutely all the symptoms associated to long covid.

It has been a nightmare, the first GP was blaming her for smoking or not doing sport (both false), the second did some tests but he said nothing can be done and the tests were inconclusive.

Finally she went to a physiotherapist who saw her condition and said that no action was unacceptable. He found a physiotherapist who is specializing in long covid, he monitors her condition at muscular level, recommends some exercises and not much more because little is known. But at least he keeps up to date and investigates.

Now it’s 5 months already and she went from having the strength of a 80+ year old ill granma to a 40+ with CF… she can now walk slowly and talk without losing breath. But still her body and brain are not working even at 50% than before.
I have, on occasion, used a similar pattern, but instead of sending something, I simply close the channel (usually with a "defer close(c)" at the beginning of the function/closure that encompasses the main code of the goroutine's work).

That way, if I end up having multiple waiters, they will all be able to proceed.
Depends on how much electricity is involved. Might require more than a simple stake
They also get to to OSS work on their project of choice for a pretty decent chunk of their time (15 or 20%). One of the maintainers of guile scheme has such a deal IIRC, and works quite a lot on guile through work.
I'm sorry but you completely fail at explaining what the difference is between GPT-3 and a human when generating sentences. And frankly I don't believe there is any significant difference. If you inform GPT-3 of what it has eaten then it can answer questions about it just as well as a human can, probably better. Why would you assume human thinking is different from generating the next N language tokens based on previous input?

In my opinion the only difference between a human and GPT-3 is we have more intrinsic motivations and more hardwired/pretrained subsystems and sensors. Lamda is not a 7 year old child because it has no motivation other than to respond to queries.
In Japan, Powerwall is also significantly cheaper than all Japanese maker batteries, last time I checked Powerwall's per-kWh price is only 1/5 of a Panasonic one. How could this happen?
> With Tesla you are constantly paying attention, or should be to the same level that you are with any other car.

you should be paying attention, but you are not. Human attention is a difficult thing. from what I recall, in a driving it takes about 7-14 seconds to re-gain situational awareness. This means that 1 second isn't enough.

> Like "a Prius driver drove off a bridge and is now landing on our hood." Of course the system will disable itself in that situation;

I'd expect that the system would slam on the brakes, not disengage to avoid liability. Thats the point here, its not about tech, its about legality. Thats the worse part, the entire system appears to be designed to stop tesla being taken to court.
What's interesting is because Toyota has been developing the NiMH for so long, it has achieved densities of approx. 150Wh/kg

This is an interesting point; why hasn't Toyota made longer-range plugin hybrids with these batteries, which would seem to be sensical? Looks like the largest battery in a plug-in Prius so far is just 8.8 kWh, according to Wikipedia.
Your list is:

- item they are at parity with on Amazon (Alexa)

- worse cloud product struggling to compete

- a registrar without any up-sell. Literally no innovation, just a sales funnel into google @ work

- waymo is innovating, this may be one of the only spots, but they seem to be behind cruise as far as difficult scenarios

- how is wing innovating? I’ve heard no news here

Google is a bloated beast that has grown headcount by 90% in the last 5-10 years and it wasn’t by suddenly finding a trove of people that met the bar set when Gmail was a 20% and search was useful.
No one ever think the things they think are blasphemy.
Long stretches of automaticity definitely give my brain a chance to simmer whatever ingredients are in it at the moment. One of the luckiest times in my first few years of work was being able to listen to audiobooks and podcasts for almost 40 hours a week, for several years. I think that gave me a little bit of a wide range of the world to begin building a complex systems model of it in my mind.
Can't speak for others - and, while I don't watch either of these live - I'm more interested in WWDC because Apple launches new hardware also in this event. For the same reason - as an Android user - I find CES more interesting than either of these two events, as a lot of new Android phones and tablets get announced during it.
As someone who loves squirrels, I can no longer condone experiments conducted on GPT-3. Squirrels do not deserve to be treated like lab rats.

I know I may lose my [completely unrelated] job for these views. But I will plant myself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world "No, GPT-3 is not a robot.”

WaPo, where is my interview?
God's existence
That doesn’t sound right to me.

Rust 1.0 released in 2015. Facebook had a source control server in production in 2018. Does that count as “real”?
Has there been any study of the effectiveness of code audits? Sensitivity and specificity in trying to find security problems, unintentional or intentional.
It really depends on what you're going to run and what experience you have.

Personally, I would run k8s from the day I expect to run the code as separate deployment to running it from my IDE. I have the skills to do so, and I found I lose way less time doing so than trying to do "classic" server setup, even if it's just one server.
Suppose a child was raised by a more advanced version of large scale language model, with the ability to detect and act on its environment, as well as form memories.

Further suppose that this child develops a deep emotional connection with the AI.

Do you think that child would find your argument convincing that the AI is "not really a person"?
I think sentience/consciousness are relatively clear concepts, at least in most areas of application (there are serious problems at the edges - e.g. is a an insect conscious? if you think it is, how about a jelly fish? if that too, how about a bacterium? a virus?).

However, our understanding of this concept is too limited to create a formal model that we can define satisfactorily; and coming up with an arbitrary model that fits some of our intuitions is silly. This is what the Integrated Information Theory people did, and I find it closer to economic models than to actual science - a nice little abstraction that can give you the appearance of being rigorous while in fact speculating wildly.

On the other hand, I think it's fair to say there are some decently well understood must-haves for something to match our idea of sentience - and being aware of yourself in the world is one of them; and yes, in that sense, it makes more sense to talk about the robot arm as being sentient, as simple as it is, than it is to say that about LaMDA or GPT-3. Of course, the robot arm is missing other per-requisites for sentience - it's programming is far too rigid, and it has no introspection.
I was just talking to a relation about this, and he said Tesla's guy said he needs two Powerwalls to replace a generator in the event of power interruption.

Is that true, or a sales guy thing? I'm not sure and haven't investigated.
Most of my peeves are addressed by this update, which is great. Jellyfin has undergone major improvements since the project's start, it really seems like an alternative for it's commercial, properietary counterparts
Yeah, that was more or less my point. He was a decent governor, but he didn't fix (or really attempt to fix) the structural issues in Sacramento, I do think reasonably highly about him. Though I voted to retain Davis, Davis lost his office because of how bad he is at retail politics.
I used Replika in their first few months. They were a chatbot for restaurant recommendations in SF believe it or not.

Their machine learning and language processing at the time was some of the best. They have since pivoted a ton clearly
What is synthetic data for artificial intelligence?
I heard the word "hydration" so many times, I sort of get it, but always have question mark in mind that what's different between hydration and jquery approach?
> those who desire power tend to be

People who desire power are often, unfortunately, the very kind I mentioned: seeking to secure themselves and easily corrupted. Sadly, power still converts to money, and less than scrupulous corporations and kleptocracies are always knocking at your door to offer a big chunk for turning a blind eye and to infect with corruption.

Again, the core problem is not that we are allowing that to happen. The problem is that some people want to do force others into finite zero-sum games and win—and if these people are already well-off, and especially in a civilization without shortage of resource (which should presumably be slowly arriving), the only reason they would want to do that is mental issues and deep-seated insecurities, distrust and fear for own financial safety.

This motivation will find its way no matter how many checks and verifications you institute. It manifests itself by people stealing other peoples’ stuff, people seeking power to enrich themselves unjustly (and in less lucky countries, using violence and pervasive control to maintain that power), corporations dumping waste into the environment and imbuing every living thing with microplastics and PFAS, etc. etc.
The sticky thing is the wage market with boomers retiring, reduced immigration, COVID and long COVID removing workers from the job market, and the pandemic in general pissing people off so they start to demand more at their work, rising unionization, etc.

High energy costs are also not here to stay. There's very clearly the post-pandemic supply shock which has spilled over into high energy costs due to a bullwhip effect. And there's the war in Ukraine, which will not last forever. There's also a buildup in inventories now (the bullwhip is coming back around) and there's no huge demand for container ships from China right now. High energy costs didn't stick in 2007, they didn't stick in 2014 and they won't stick this time. Commodities/Energy inflation is cyclical.