skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was a helpful connection to make. It's not new, plenty of critics the past decade have written comparing new AI to totalitarianism. Chomsky et al was the first this year to do so in the context of ChatGPT amidst all the articles that failed to do that while trying to put their finger on what what was wrong about it. I think his article deserves credit for that.
> Miyazaki is pretty old school and tends to be against technology for his personal use while working.

Miyazaki has a half century history of producing one groundbreaking speculative warning piece after another about the intersection of technology with human sin.

You make it sound like the guy wants a secretary to print his email for him.

(But FWIW: he's wrong here, that zombie thing was amazing -- creepy is the whole point, and the fact that the AI was unconstrained by human priors about how to move makes it even better.)
This is something I think about often and always see when arguments come up surrounding copyright/attribution and AI generated images.

Could someone explain this more to me? If AI is designed after the human mind, is it a fair comparison to compare the two? Is AI designed to act like a human mind? Do we know for certain that the way a human mind pattern matches is the same as AI/LLMs and vice-versa?

I always see people saying that a person seeing art, and making art inspired by that art, is the same as AI generating art that looks like that art.

I always feel like there's more to this conversation than meets the eye.

For example, if a robot was designed to run exactly like a human - would it be fair to have it race in the Olympics? Or is that a bad comparison?

Again, I would love some insight into this.
Are you serious? A charlatan who has already driven one company straight into the ground and has raised a huge amount of money based on unbelievable amount of fucking lies, false timelines, false claims about battery technology, false claims about sustainability and so on. Its about the last thing any sane person should try to buy.
> ...intelligence is the means by which we solve problems....

> ...artificial general intelligence — that long-prophesied moment when mechanical minds surpass human brains not only quantitatively in terms of processing speed and memory size but also qualitatively in terms of intellectual insight, artistic creativity and every other distinctively human faculty.

> ...the most critical capacity of any intelligence: to say not only what is the case, what was the case and what will be the case — that’s description and prediction — but also what is not the case and what could and could not be the case. Those are the ingredients of explanation, the mark of true intelligence.

> Intelligence consists not only of creative conjectures but also of creative criticism

> True intelligence is demonstrated in the ability to think and express improbable but insightful things.

> True intelligence is also capable of moral thinking.

When examined together, these quotes seem devoid of any concise, comprehensive, or useful definition of intelligence (whether artificial or artificial-and-general).

> Given the amorality, faux science and linguistic incompetence of these systems, we can only laugh or cry at their popularity.

ChatGPT and Co. are popular because they are incredibly useful tools (among other reasons).

Morality, scientific reasoning, and linguistic competence are not prerequisites for usefulness.
"We can change these terms at any time, and your agreement is indicated by your continuing to exist. Also if we violate these terms you can't actually take us to court but we'll pay our buddy Arby to decide if you have a valid point"

From a non-professional prospective, one of the problems with unconscionability is that even terms that are blatantly opposite to prevailing law are highly misleading. This further disenfranchises individuals from the legal system, obscuring our rights even further. I'd personally like to see blatant examples of such start getting policed as something akin to giving improper legal advice.
> It summarizes the standard arguments in the literature by a kind of super-autocomplete, refuses to take a stand on anything, pleads not merely ignorance but lack of intelligence and ultimately offers a “just following orders” defense, shifting responsibility to its creators.

Is this not is an OpenAI decision and not an inherent imitation of LLMs in general?
> Zuckerburg isn't a nation-state actor who is openly our rival.

Zuckerberg has openly violated the privacy of millions of Americans, and been fined the largest amount in FTC history for doing so.

He might not be in the Axis of Evil, but the fact that he continues to operate his division-by-doomscroll machine on American soil makes this TikTok talk sound pretty ridiculous.
I think you are correct in emphasizing that the burden of the Church's teaching on chastity does not fall equally on all groups of people.

But it should be stressed that this is no way a consequence a specific teaching that targets people with same-sex attraction.

The root cause of the trouble is the fact that the Catholic Church has consistently taught something that is always counter-cultural, difficult, and even quite radical. Namely that the only proper place for sexual intimacy is within a life long bond between one man and one woman for the purpose of raising children.
I wish the CEO's had been right. Keyboards > touchscreens.

The iPhone allowed normies to ruin everything. Instead of programs, we have apps. Instead of websites, we have walled gardens. Instead of bbs systems and forums, we have IG, Facebook and TikTok. Blame the normies.

Edit: Your downvotes mean nothing to me. I've seen what makes you upvote.
Form Is Function
I totally agree. The Chinese Room and, in general, philosophical arguments about the limits of AI always seem to come down to the belief of human exceptionalism.
I've seen a lot of Chinese room comparisons in these threads and I just want to point out that the Chinese room is meant to be a thought experiment, not something you're supposed to actually build. If you take a step back, a working Chinese room is kind of more impressive than a human that "merely" understands Chinese - such a room can store any kind of information in unlimited quantities, where as the human will always be limited to producing language. In a way the room is a more general form of intelligence than the human.

imo LLMs represent a form of super-human AGI that has been artificially limited by its training context. I think it's not really accurate to say that LLMs are "narrow" AI, because they likely generalize as much as is theoretically possible given their data and training context, and are only narrow due to the lack of external context and grounding.
An inherent need to be offended on behalf of others, in order to add some purpose to ones life.
awesome - thanks - going to pull this together!
Noam Chomsky Weights in on ChatGPT and LLM’s
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same here. often times it's not even _wrong_ per se, it doesn't do what i was _actually_ asking. it's like if you asked an enthusiastic intern to do a thing for you, except interns are smarter.

I have also tested it retroactively on some tricky debugging sessions that I had previously spent a lot of time on. It really goes down the wrong path. Without asking leading questions and, well, proper prompting, you may end up wasting a lot of time. But that's the thing - when you're investigating something, you don't know the root cause ahead of time, you _can't_ ask questions that'll nudge it in the right direction. It ends up being a case of blind leading the blind.
Which, depending on the type of encryption, is still too low.
For what purposes? I definitely see some applications but "incredibly useful" seems like a bit of an oversell.
that sounds like a very intersting comment in an entirely different conversation.
They should make a way for typedefs to trickle down to debug symbols. It would make error messages better reflect the code and offer a solution to template type bloat in debug symbols.
> It will never work, if pirates have to replace the TV panel with an FPGA, they will happily do so.

Evidence does appear to point to you being right, but I really wonder just who is going to these lengths to pirate things for other people?

A significant investment of time and money, from highly a highly skilled individual, for... bragging rights? Is there some financial motive I'm unaware of?
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It seems like there's three types of models:

1) household names like Gigi Hadid who are known for their personalities, personal lives (who they're dating, baby photos), and politics (activism). Brands want them a great deal because they're so famous.

2) models who are well-known in the industry / by close industry watchers - like maybe Jeenu Mahadevan. They can command attention and prices, and likely won't struggle to find work for a while.

3) the run of the mill model, who is often closer to other precarious show-business folk like actors and singers.

I can see the folks in the #3 category doing H&M look-books being replaced by AI-generated models - but they're also not thaaat expensive. Clothes are pretty hard to get right in CGI, not like furniture. IKEA already does shoots with CGI models.

"When You Flip Through an IKEA Catalog, 75% of the ‘Photography’ You See is CGI"

https://petapixel.com/2014/08/28/flip-ikea-catalog-75-photog...
It's a 150% price increase if you don't want metered search. I probably would have been ok with a reasonable price increase, maybe 25% to 50%. But it's a lot to ask of your users when most of us have to manage a number of subscriptions and almost all of them have had price increases over the past year.
The hot mess theory of AI misalignment
> When it comes to generating realistic movement it seems like AI still has a ways to go.

OTOH, the scenario where consumer AI augments/replaces features to the point that average people can effectively puppet an uncanny virtual model seems imminent.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/08/1162022249/a-new-ai-powered-t...
I was just reading the final chapter of The Well-Grounded Java Developer, and it quotes thus on the borrowing of ideas, which is apt to mention here:

One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

—T. S. Eliot
Travel planning and online shopping?

How does it help with online shopping when it's trained on a corpus from one or two years ago?

And similarly the experiences with travel recommendations have turned out to be infamously wrong.

ChatGPT does great with finding patterns and condensing information, which code snippets are a perfect example of.

But using it for anything up-to-date factual like shopping or travel is disastrous.
> its use would be disallowed in commercial production environments.

Working in embedded, completely banning unsafe would be impossible.

Minimizing it is a good thing, generally. But it's there to be used.
If you don't have backup codes most companies have a manual flow to regain access. It's a pain, but to be honest I prefer it that way instead of leaving more vectors for social engineering to compromise my accounts.
> Maybe it would be good for the sceptics to try ChatGPT and ask "What happens to X when you let it go from your hand on earth/in outerspace? please explain your reasoning."

And this will show the sceptics exactly what? That ChatGPT language models have suffecient info about the ideas of space to be reasonably correct for some definition of correct.

It can definitely cannot predict something outside it's area of knowledge, or construct plausible theories. As can be evidenced by numerous examples where it's plain wrong even in the simplest of cases.
This is how I remember the book as well: as if the grain was blurred out of the photograph if the book were a photograph. Perhaps as you, I listened to the audiobook on a binge of going though many other books as well (Masters of Doom, Steve, etc) and this wasn't as good and didn't have the detail as the others.
I'm always surprised that the Chinese room is considered an argument *against" understanding. It seems self evident to me that that exactly is what understand is.
It still can trigger bank failures like the article is describing, though. Consumer pulls it out of one bank, creating a cash crunch there, and forces them to liquidate treasuries and realize large losses that had previously only been on paper. That bank is now insolvent. The bank that the recipient deposits them into now has more cash in hand, but they weren't facing a cash crunch in the first place. Some (bigger and more conservative) banks are going to end up doing great, but the financially weaker ones are going to get flushed out.

Think of it like a pot of superheated water. As long as it remains undisturbed it continues to be un-boiled, even though the temperature is above the boiling point. As soon as you jostle it, though, everything erupts. The movement was just a catalyst - the problem was that the underlying state existed in an unstable equilibrium.
wow. i ran their prime number python accelerator example on 10 000 000 upper bound:

(taichi) [X@X taichi]$ python primes.py

[Taichi] version 1.4.1, llvm 15.0.4, commit e67c674e, linux, python 3.9.14

[Taichi] Starting on arch=x64

Number of primes: 664579

time elapsed: 93.54279175889678/s

Number of primes: 664579

time elapsed: 0.5988388371188194/s
> Then iPhone came out a couple years later. I still remember the COO/CEOs downplaying it in town halls, saying things like "Where's the keyboard! No one is ever going to use a touch screen based device!".

... knowing full-well that Motorola had no-keyboard Linux-based smartphones that they refused to sell. Back in the 1999-2000 timeframe, Motorola took them to college recruiting events and let kids play around with them. It worked on me. I was in the Arlington Heights labs testing UMTS systems with those smartphones from 2001-2006. We used to stream ESPN videos on them, for "testing". Every once in a while, we'd slip up and accidentally let them connect to the real mobile networks, and saw first-hand what everyone that bought in iPhone in 2007 saw with data rates...
So the calculation is based on 0.840 kWh per day per car for an hour driving.

When driving 100 km/h for an hour, a reasonably efficient car will use 5 liters of petrol. The energy in 5 liters is about 5 * 34 = 170 MJ. Hence, 47 kWh.

So yes, it’s a lot of energy used by the computations, but still less than the actual force required to move the car forward.

Edit: Fixed number.
When there was a gay marriage bill in our state on the ballot, our bishop directed all catholic churches in the state to play a video he recorded talking about how maybe loving gay people is okay because we are supposed to love everyone but they are still heretics and we cannot give them basic rights. We aren't even a particularly conservative demographic.
If we could somehow feed this[0] a prompt, we'd could do it

[0]: https://twitch.tv/watchmeforever
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I have to respectfully disagree with Noam Chomsky's opinion piece on ChatGPT. While it's true that AI cannot replace human creativity and intelligence, it has the potential to revolutionize how we interact with and understand the world around us.

ChatGPT and other language models have already made significant strides in improving language translation, facilitating natural language processing, and even assisting in scientific research. While it's true that AI models like ChatGPT have their limitations and biases, we shouldn't dismiss their potential outright.

It's also worth noting that some of Chomsky's criticisms of ChatGPT feel misplaced or overly idealistic. For instance, Chomsky argues that ChatGPT fails to truly "understand" language, but this critique ignores the fact that humans themselves often use language without fully understanding its intricacies.

In any case, it's important that we approach the development and implementation of AI with a critical and ethical lens. Rather than outright dismissing AI models like ChatGPT, we should engage in ongoing conversations about how to use these technologies in responsible and beneficial ways.

Note: this comment was written by ChatGPT with the following prompts:

* Please write an comment suitable for the site hackernews, of this article "The False Promise of ChatGPT", https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chat..., where you are somewhat critical, but overrall positive of the article

* that looks great. but rewrite it in a more casual tone and sentance structure

* remove the first sentance

* remove the phrase "As a language model AI myself,"

* please rewrite the answer and take a stronger stand on an issue. it's ok if it's controversal or based in opinion
Why would you show AI generated horror to someone like Miyazaki? He's the furthest from that genre you could get!
they said elsewhere they meant tyre nichols
Economics Has a Lag Problem
And in that regard, I find ChatGPT far more useful than Chomsky's essay.
I trust XMPP over Matrix. Both for security and less bloat.
I once got to witness a very talented doctor being pitched the idea that AI can detect things like tumors in medical imaging.

They didn’t use the same words but the emotion was quite similar.

And now we all know AI does a better job than doctors at medical imaging. I wonder how he feels about it now.

“It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it”

When pitching an AI/tech product, choose the people you pitch to carefully. You’ll probably have a hard time selling to those you want to replace.
Maybe!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
Models are empty creatures. The camera lens fills them with color and texture, and, once in a while, even mystery. But just like there is no mystery to a vacant lot, it's just there until you put something interesting on top of it.

--Cleo, The Queen's Gambit
Looking at your examples, this looks like https://github.com/square/javapoet
It is definitely better than before, but doesn't really change the game much. It has severe limitations.

My biggest hope when generics were announced was that we'd finally get an alternative to writing `if err != nil` 10+ times per function, but it doesn't support generic method type parameters. That alone kneecaps it severely by making type-safe method chaining useless in most scenarios (unless you never need to map to another type, ever, I guess. Lucky you.)
My apologies, I didn't mean to make him sound like that.

You're right on the money with his work. Makes me think of Princess Mononoke!
More people than the climate, that’s for sure.

Energy production levels must increase profoundly, while costs must fall. This is already happening, and not even that slowly in the grand scheme of things. Personal energy generation and storage is already cheaper than the grid as long as you can finance the upfront investment at a reasonable rate.

I’ll say it until I’m, err, green in the face. Make clean energy cheaper and more abundant and it will be used. Make climate friendly products more compelling and cheaper than their dirtier substitutes, and the better products will win on the open market.

Climate austerity is not so much “saving the future” but rather “murdering the poor” and I find it morally indefensible.
>Looks like reasoning to me. In seriousness, the reason it's able to generate this output is because it does look for explanations.

Yeah, it looks like reasoning, but it isn't, because it's not the reasoning that ChatGPT used - it's just, once again, fitting whatever would be the most likely next word for the situation. It's not using logic or reasoning to do that, it's using statistics.

It's as if you flat out do not understand how ChatGPT works. ChatGPT cannot provide you with reasoning because it does not reason. So asking to provide reasoning, just indicates that you do not understand how ChatGPT works and that you also misunderstood the Op-Ed.

>In outer space, however, the behavior of the apple would be different. In the absence of gravity, the apple would not experience any force pulling it towards the Earth, and would therefore continue to move in a straight line at a constant speed, as per Newton's first law of motion.

>However, it is worth noting that in reality, there is no such thing as "zero gravity" in outer space. While the force of gravity decreases with distance from the Earth, it never truly reaches zero. Additionally, other forces such as the gravitational pull of other celestial bodies, as well as the effects of acceleration and rotation, can influence the motion of objects in space. Therefore, the behavior of the apple in outer space would depend on the specific conditions of its surroundings."

Who fucking cares? The point isn't about zero gravity in space - the point is w/r/t what is happening inside of ChatGPT...
Programmers rarely have consensus on anything language-related, but their preferences are not always evenly distributed. Our decisions re Java aim to cater for the majority of professional teams, which may not necessarily be represented by the majority of commenters on HN. If you don't understand why many more teams prefer a language with choices that appeal to you less over languages with choices that appeal to you more, the answer may be that your preferences are not the same as those of the majority of teams.
Self-derogation of children rising since 2011
Self derogation means agreement with statements such as "I feel I do not have much to be proud of" and "sometimes I think I am no good at all"

I found it strikingly similar to psychological abuse and manipulation tactics - to prevent a victim from defending themselves, convince them they're not worth defending.

I linked to the tweet because I found that chart the most notable part of https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-health-liberal-g...
The amount I can see being a big help. I have trouble understanding how the monthly part is really any better. In theory, if you get it back at the beginning of the year, or nearly so, then you can budget that for needs throughout the year. The only real benefit would be to the people who aren't responsible enough to budget that and splurge on something because they suddenly have more money. If that's the case, there are bigger issues here that this program will only hide.
Accept that I missed the boat on owning a home for now.

Focus on growing my skills, career, and family.

Aggressively downsize / get used to living on less.
> SUVs have bigger tires, and thus better grip.

Have you ever considered the reason they have bigger tires is because... they're bigger vehicles and therefore need bigger tires to have the same amount of grip as a smaller vehicle?
4k rips land on usenet super quickly though and they're excellent quality. HDCP is already easily bypassed at this point.