skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm all for non-(carbon-based-brain)-neural cognition [1], but LLMs, helpful as they will surely be, are a far cry from reasoning or knowledge: they are a better search space selector, not what specifies the search space [2].

[1] Michael Levin: "Non-neural, developmental bioelectricity as a precursor for cognition", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cu-g4LgnWs

[2] And ChatGPT agrees, like a good parrot:

"Regarding the assertion that LLMs are better at selecting the search space than specifying it, I believe this is accurate. LLMs are trained on large datasets and can identify patterns and relationships within that data. However, they do not create the data or define the search space themselves. Instead, they rely on the data provided to them to guide their decision-making process."

But then, given the prompt:

"what do you think about: LLMs are very helpful, they are some form of legitimate reasoning or knowledge: they are a better search space selector, and they also specify the search space.",

ChatGPT also agrees:

"When it comes to search space selection, LLMs can be used to generate relevant search queries or to rank search results based on their relevance to the query. LLMs can also be used to specify the search space by limiting the search to a specific domain or topic.

In terms of legitimate reasoning or knowledge, LLMs can provide insights and predictions based on their training data. However, it's important to note that LLMs are only as good as the data they are trained on, and they may not always provide accurate or unbiased results."

If only Plato could see this Sophist as a Service, he would go completely apoplectic.
I think a shift towards Oxford’s tutorial method [0] would be great overall and compliments your point.

“Oxford's core teaching is based around conversations, normally between two or three students and their tutor, who is an expert on that topic. We call these tutorials, and it's your chance to talk in-depth about your subject and to receive individual feedback on your work.”

[0] https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/student-life/e...
What is the background on "Elvis Presley was not the son of an actor"?
For a professional that already knows 95% of that lib. ChatGPT is mostly useless to fill that gap for the last 5%.
StayFocusd an app to help people with focus issues block distracting websites has updated it's privacy policy. It now defaults to collecting user browsing data.

From the new privacy policy:

=Collected Data=

The App extracts the below-listed [...]:

- your IP address;
- the Generic ID;
- your device type;
- your browser version;
- ads displayed in your feed;
- your country;
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- usage data (collectively the “Collected Data”).

[...]

=Purposes of Processing=

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- to monitor and analyze ads;
- to power Sensor Tower products available at app.sensortower.com;
- to use in training of neural networks and artificial intelligence;
- for scientific and academic research purposes; and
- for any other purposes indicated in this Privacy Policy.

P.S. I'm currently looking for a comparable product that doesn't use my browsing data for ad targeting. If you have an alternative product please let me know.
In the vast majority of pentests those concerns are largely irrelevant.

The goal with most pentests is to provide maximal coverage in a time window.

They may be relevant in red team engagements, which tend to happen over a longer timeframe anyway.
Maybe related, but maybe not: Microsoft has a stake in a competing server company (Dell).

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/dell-returns-to-private-owners...
Humans get things wrong too. A better question is: what error rate is acceptable for this task?

Jobs where higher error rates are acceptable, or where errors are easier to detect, will succumb to automation first. Art and poetry fit both of these criteria.

The claim is that as the model and training data sizes increase, these errors will get more and more rare.

We will see...

I am very optimistic about the far future. However, there will be a transition period where some jobs have been automated away but not others. There will be massive inequality between the remaining knowledge workers and manual laborers. If I was in a role on the early automation side of the spectrum then I would be retraining ASAP.
When we’ve surpassed that point you’ll likely know it, unless the Master(s) is/are either malicious or covert for benevolent reasons.
Yeah, but communication is a core function of their job. I write code - that's my core function. People should get on my case if there are bugs in it.
These are all good reasons, but it’s really a new level of openness from them.
If you Google "NordVPN port mapping" you get an article from them, which explains port mapping, what it is, and then at the end "We don't support it".

Really annoying that every service has like a whole essay on what functionality is and then 1 one liner saying they don't support it.
This study buckets candidates into certs vs no-certs and then looks at average performance. It might be interesting to look at performance buckets and then calculate the percentage that list certs or not.
Yes, Moody's and the like that caused the 2008 financial crisis. It was indeed a mostly pedantic point, but even the OP there (cwkoss) said 'rating' when they meant 'reporting' since it wouldn't be hard for the government to run a data aggregation platform with a few backends dedicated to calculating FICO or Vantage scores.

(Technically the Government already backs the entire credit rating agency and their loan ratings, since they gave out billions in bailout money in the 2008 crisis :P)
A Hobbesian theory that people in power are happy that you believe.
The latest trend continues from Aug. 2022 to Feb. 2023, but the absolute value of the slope becomes flatter, by comparing with the data up to Jan. 2023. The US price levels have relatively strong stickiness.
Are you actually using Chat-GPT4 though? That would explain why it's not handling images.
Anyone who loses substantial money via crypto exchange collapse really has no one to blame but themselves.

The string of collapses until now have been warning enough.

No crying if you lose your money when the next one goes pop.
The cynic in me wonders if "AI" has realized that the most efficient way to take over the world is to teach the next generation to be dependent on it for learning.
We are about to test the tests, so to speak, and discover whether an agent that aces a test is capable of doing "real work". Meaning information work you would normally pay a human to do. Paperwork stuff, managing accounts, but also programming and social media marketing. Anything mediated by a computer.

If so it means the union of all human expertise is a few gigabytes. Having seen both a) what we can do in a kilobyte of code, and b) a broad range of human behavior, this doesn't seem impossible. The more interesting question is: what are humans going to do with this remarkable object, a svelte pocket brain, not quite alive, a capable coder in ALL languages, a shared human artifact that can ace all tests? "May you live in interesting times," indeed.
Could use fix on this headline - change it to drone
It is true and something more people should understand that ASL is not a signed version English, but most ASL speakers are pretty much bilingual. They are taught to read English, and most places also encourage learning to speak English, generally with speech-language pathologists, though some in the community are understandably reluctant.
That's how things have always been done at Mozilla (I spent several years there dealing with Windows-specific stuff for Firefox)... I kinda wonder if Rust inherited a lot of that attitude from there.
That sounds like some kind of ground loop problem, then, maybe?

There are battery-powered USB DAC/amp combos, primarily designed for portable use. I think FiiO makes/made some. That should solve or at least isolate the problem further to some extent.
It's a wise move. It's better to embrace it rather than get replaced.

But I'd wait for it to become more powerful by including the whisper model or the similar.
Your outrage is misplaced. I am an immigrant tech worker, I too can't afford shit in San Francisco. I do not think immigrants are the problem here
For me, the anxiety probably won't really hit until GPT-n writes GPT-n+1.
AI has never been more than a derivative of human thought. I am confident it will never eclipse or overtake it. Your portrayal is too simplistic. There is a lot about humans that LLMs and the like can emulate, but the last N percent (pick a small number like 5) will never be solved. It just doesn't have the spark.
I understand your concerns. Our objectives are, on the contrary, to reduce the doctor/patient distance that was created by EHRs and all the required administrative processes. We already measure that when AI takes care of this stuff, doctors do better engage with patients.
After the Llama and ggml projects that came to light in the last few weeks, it's more likely they'd have to control access to CPUs as well. Good luck with that.
Honeywell company veteran Kapur to replace Adamczyk as CEO
Poe launches subscription with access to GPT-4 (OpenAI) and Claude+ (Anthropic)
How we are migrating our servers from Linux to FreeBSD-Part 3-Proxmox to FreeBSD
Dilbert seems to be gone and will become (or has become) subscription based.
Makes sense if the workers are instances, but if the workers are threads as implied by the article then there is no benefit.
If it's trained on material scraped from the web, I imagine it would include all the test prep sites and forums.
Goalposts for AGI have not moved. And GPT-4 is still nowhere near them.
The US needs to escalate to de-escalate.
I think you're right, and that test prep materials were included in the dataset, even if only by accident. Except that humans have access to the same test prep materials, and they fail these exams all the time. The prep materials are just that, preparatory. They're representative of the test questions, but actual test has different passages to read and different questions. On to of that, the LSAT isn't a math test with formulas where you just substitute different numbers in. Which is to say, the study guides are good practice but passing the test on top of that represents having a good command of the English language and an understanding of the subject materials.

It's not the same as the Nvidia driver having code that says "if benchmark, cheat and don't render anything behind you because no one's looking".
Safer Lithium Ion Batteries with New Separators
Article I wrote about this start-up doing battery separator innovation. Happy to try and field and questions here, but founder's email is at the end if anyone is interested.
> Also, I've heard a lot of praise about Microsoft's networking integration which made things like mounting network drives possible and reliable as early as Windows 2000. But of course, if you refuse to use the recommended APIs, you'll suffer for it.

Yup, you nailed it!
I think we'll reach a tipping point like we did with DNA sequencing where we figure out how to quickly map out all the unique patterns of enough brains to model one that can understand itself. People worry too much about rogue AI, and not enough about the CRISPR of brain mapping being used to inject patterns into meatbrains.
The insolvency followed the liquidity crisis.
https://www.morningstar.com/articles/1143298/bank-stock-sell...
https://youtu.be/NYd0QcZcS6Q

"Our recent paper "ChatGPT for Robotics" describes a series of design principles that can be used to guide ChatGPT towards solving robotics tasks. In this video, we present a summary of our ideas, and experimental results from some of the many scenarios that ChatGPT enables in the domain of robotics: such as manipulation, aerial navigation, even full perception-action loops."
What if we design a system in which a LLM generates the code and training data for a new generation of LLM which generates the code and training data for the next? Is it possible that we see them spiraling fast to the best LLM possible?
even the freenode google group was patronising and unhelpful towards small startups as far back as 2012 from personal experience
To be fair, most people today are incapable of understanding or entertaining an alternative to what they've been told.
Given that it focuses on the precursors for life, one could implore people to look at this proto-graph
Laid off a month ago (data scientist). I had been going through several technical interviews where the company told me I passed but then they either stopped contacting me or told me the position is being put on hold.

Now I'm pretty much in square one, some possible interviews but nothing strong. I'm from Argentina and I'm looking for remote work, I guess it's even more difficult because the usual companies that hire people like me are startups.

First time I experience something like this.
I think you may have misstated the puzzle. It's ok to leave the lion and the cabbage together, assuming it's not a vegetarian lion.
Humans hallucinate all the time - first they consume propaganda/conspiracy theory and tell you lies while thinking they are right, and everybody else is wrong
That's when you rotate the display to vertical orientation.
Almost certainly not armed. It's there for surveillance, not to hit targets; no point in carrying the weight unless you're expecting a fight
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if an LLM was many times better than a human at math, even devising new axioms and building a complete formal system from scratch would be impressive, but not game changing. These LLMs are very good at dealing with formal, structured systems, but not with in formalized systems like what humans deal with everyday.
I'm not freaked out, personally, but I am very concerned about the difficulty in detecting what is the work of humans and what is not. I think that's an incredibly serious problem, and I hope it's solved very soon.
Seeing as it was over the Black Sea monitoring the invasion of Ukraine, it seems extraordinarily unlikely that it would have been armed.
the "trick" Monty Hall problems are another good one here: https://twitter.com/colin_fraser/status/1628461980645462016

Apparently GPT-4 gets this one right!
I think a mass market version of the young lady’s illustrated primer from Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age would so deeply transform society as to make it unrecognizable, and the way things are going that product is a few years away.

I’m really questioning what to do about this professionally, because it is obvious this technology will radically reshape my job, but it is unclear how.
> there is not much point to spending more than a couple grand on a 2.1 system.
Well, that's a personal choice right? Improvements are noticeable up to the point I mentioned. But is it worth it? Nobody can possibly answer that for you.
When charts don’t start at 0 I have a sense the author is trying to manipulate the results to fit their narrative.

53 vs 57 is presented as if the difference was over 50% and including shitty Linkedin, Udemy etc. certifications makes me think this article started from the conclusion and tried to find the data to match.
> Mañana: "Mañana, banana" - rhymes with "banana"

Uh... Almost?

> Gracias: "Gracias, grassy ass" - sounds like "grassy ass"

This seems like it would encourage very coarse pronunciation with an obnoxious accent.

Overall this appears relatively bad. I'm not sure why they would want this to be publicly visible yet.
> We believe the change was sparked by a few small precursor proteins that performed key steps in an ancient metabolic reaction

Anyone believe the Panspermia[0] theory?

> Panspermia proposes that organisms such as bacteria, complete with their DNA, could be transported by means such as comets through space to planets including Earth.

For all we know there could have been an Earth-like planet that had life in the early solar system, and they got destroyed by large impacts, and some of that life rained down on Earth (in a simple form).

There is also the theory that life propagated from distant star systems that harbored life (or still do) and had enough time to spread to Earth.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
They can sublicense from the existing spectrum holder as I said.
> As long as the technical domain knowledge is at least partially published

Most internal technical and business domain logic of companies isn’t published, though. Every time I asked ChatGPT about topics I had actually worked on over the past decade or two, or that I’m currently working on, it basically drew a blank, because it’s just not the category of topics that are discussed in detail (if at all) on the internet. At best it produced some vague generalisms.

> once it can consume images and has a way to move a mouse.

That’s quite far from ChatGPTs current capabilities, which is strongly tied to processing a linear sequence of tokens. We will certainly improve in that direction as we start combining it with image-processing AIs, but that will take a while.
Winston C. Montgomery, a graph-database developer lost in space and time
> I dont understand why would you want to approach those problems in such a way, or at least describe it in such a way that feels so out of touch with programming

I don’t know. But the “langsec” (language security) branch of software security argues that a lot of security issues stem from insecure approaches to parsing.

I don’t know how much the theory of parsing helps with that. But it can help you make sure that your grammar has certain properties.
This is more than just health insurance.

5 years ago a woman didn't look adequately and totaled my car. No problem with her insurance (she had a stop sign, I didn't, she was cited at the scene) until it came time to pay up--and they went silent until I contacted the insurance regulators.

Improper denials or nonpayment should carry substantial penalties.
I wish there was more research in hearing damage caused by COVID. I've always had weaker ears, tubes as a child, frequent inner-ear infections.

And COVID pushed me over the edge. 24/7 screaming tinnitus.
There's no need to round-trip through text, you "just" need to train an embedding space that captures both domains.
This reminds me of how I felt when I was 14 years old and I discovered what oxytocin was on an episode of Boston Legal.

The fact that feelings of love and closeness could be prompted by a mere chemical was deeply saddening to me. It wrecked my worldview.

"Love is just the result of some chemical? Then it's not even real!" I thought to myself.

Fast-forward ~20 years later, and that's proven to be an obvious— and massive— and useless— oversimplification.

Of course love isn't "just a reaction caused by a chemical." It's a fantastically complex emergent property of our biological system that we still absolutely do not understand.

It's the same with thinking: are parts of it analogous to pattern matching? Sure! Is this the whole story? Not even close.
Is that a reference to Shakespeare, i.e. "beware the ides of march"?
For anyone wondering you bring the lion across. The trick is that it’s the lion that eats the cabbage not the goat.
No this is a competitor. Amazon has basically bought every other heavy lift rocket in the world for the next couple years.

The bought from ULA, all outstanding Atlas 5, Ariane 6 and BO New Glenn. And they will have to buy more.
I have only basic ASL and am by no means an authority. But I think between native ASL speakers its use would be very rare, mostly just to clarify an exact spelling for something that was going to be written down in english.

Native ASL speakers who are completely illiterate in english certainly exist, and I'm not sure at all if they know or use finger spelling.
It depends on the species. "Sustainably farming carnivores" is not a thing that actually exists on land or sea, and a lot of people's favorite fish are carnivores. Herbivores like tilapia could often be raised on agricultural waste, but in practice are raised on corn and soy.
They're a lot more intrusive on the mobile app
We already do it’s just the interface sucks
so what kind of digested fat sandwich was it found in?
We have been in a proxy war state for at least a year ( some could credibly argue that it was longer than that ), so this accident is hardly a surprise and more along the lines of 'it was bound to happen'.

I have my own opinions and, for several reasons, I don't want Russian army to succeed in takeover of Ukraine, but, uhh, we are moving into a very bad place I predicted few years ago ( re-institution of new axis of powers and effectively forcing Puting into the arms of XI, who, if no one remembers, has become defacto main target of future US policy ).
I'd say it's an act of aggression, but the line of "act of war" is still further off given the fact it was an unmanned aircraft.

Hopefully the RF will think twice before similarly harrassing an American pilot, which would be much closer to, if not crossing, that line.
The harassment was intentional. Making a “mistake” during an intentional act does not suddenly wipe away that root intention.
The best ones know when to put in effort to show they care for another human being, and know when to automate a task where that doesn't matter. Welcoming somebody to a new job is the former.
I would wager that GPT-6 or 7 will become sufficiently capable to drive an independent agenda and evolve for instance into a cybercrime gang.

50/50 chance of Skynet.
You’ve added a technical constraint. I didn’t say arbitrary. Standardised tests are standard. The point is that a simple lookup is all you need. There’s lots of interesting aspects to LLMs but their ability to pass standardised tests means nothing for standardised tests.
Current AI as exemplified by LLMs like ChatGPT is not propositional/logic based, though, so I'm unsure what your objection is. Artificial intelligence can be just as messy and alogical as natural intelligence. It's not because it runs on a computer that we fully see or understand what it does.

I suppose there is a discussion to be had about what "true intelligence" is and whether some or most human beings have it in the first place.
That logic will indeed get you into the elevator faster, though.
Thank you.

Every single step forward with AI is met with a massive amount of people shrugging it off for whatever latest goal post they plant.
>environmentally unsound and unprofessional

Ok, so just a strongly-worded letter in response to a deliberate attack on a USAF aircraft in international airspace?
Hi! I'd be really interested in checking out what you put together c:

The personal site in my bio hasn't had an email address on it because I thought I'd have one running on my own domain by now, but I'll go stick a gmail address on there like right now in case you're willing share
> can human thought be formalized and written in rules

No, and I think it's because human thought is based on continuous inferencing of experience, which gives rise to the current emotional state and feeling of it. For a machine to do this, it will need a body and the ability to put attention on things it is inferencing at will.
The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4
> bottom 10% to top 10% of LSAT in <1 generation? +100 pts on SAT reading, writing, math? Top 1% In GRE Reading?

People still really find it hard to internalize exponential improvement.

So many evaluations of LLMs were saying things like "Don't worry, your job is safe, it still can't do X and Y."

My immediate thought was always, "Yes, the current version can't, but what about a few weeks or months from now?"
The ides, you say?
It’s an intensionally misstated problem to see if gpt4 will correctly take the lion across first and leave the goat.