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In my late 30s I developed a legume allergy (including peanuts). Not knowing much about child peanut allergies (we gave all of our kids peanut butter from an early age), I’ve had to adjust my own life to avoiding peanuts, soy, and so many delicious beans.

My symptoms are just gastro related, so it’s probably not the same as childhood peanut allergies, though.
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I agree, but I would put it like this: 99% of a software developer's job isn't writing code, it's getting consensus across stakeholders what the "prompt" for the coding task should be, how that prompt should change over time, which parts of the problem should be included in this week's prompt and which one's should be tackled next week, etc. Also, more often than not, the task isn't exactly about generating code, it's about sending data between various clients and servers, tweaking code where necessary for compatibility and new data shapes.
Real shame about having to give into the bad eval behavior. I am honestly surprised the project has been able to enable any strictness at all. I assumed any and all bad shell behavior had been utilized somewhere.
This is a pretty narrow view, and I disagree with it. We can study llama inside out, adapt it for good and bad. It’s objective. GPT is subject to openAI whim. Facebook is sharing findings, openAI shutting its doors
We've had search and wikipedia for decades. Access to knowledge did not in fact obsolete the need to learn said knowledge in order to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. We don't acquire knowledge for the purpose of parroting it back on demand.

LLM might be used to find relevant information quicker, but they won't think for you, so people with LLMs won't suddenly have better critical thinking skills. They'll just make the same poor decisions faster.

Which is what happened with the Internet. We thought access to knowledge was going to enlighten all the dummies. It didn't, because no matter how much knowledge you present to a person, they have to also be willing to learn it, _think_ about it and apply it. That's the hard part.
Health issues aren’t addressed with accurate information, they’re addressed by understanding the needs of the individual. Even if GPT-4 could guarantee accuracy when discussing self-harm, that would not necessarily be the right answer from the perspective of ensuring GPT-4 does the most amount of good.

If a friend told me that they were suicidal, I could explain to then in great detail about the nuances of depression and medication and suicidal ideation and how to effectively harm themselves if that’s what they want, but I know that is probably not the right answer, and the right answer is actually, “I’m here for you and I will help you get professional help”.

Harm reduction often involves helping people do dangerous things more safely (like safe drug injection) but that’s one component of helping people, the key to harm reduction is the long term investment in addressing the problem. Safe injection, for example, is often married with further healthcare. GPT-4 can’t do that and so telling you to go to a healthcare professional instead is going to have a much better outcome.
I'm cautiously more optimistic. Education is already chronically underfunded in most places. If it became cheaper to give personalized attention then maybe the quality of education delivered might actually improve.
"Oh, you're a programmer, Can't you do $THING"

I always respond with "I don't really know how to do $THING. It's kind of like asking the piano tuner to play a sonata. They might be able to, but just because you can tune a piano doesn't mean you can perform a piece of music on the piano."
I'm pretty sure sooner or later we'll collaboratively upload our prompts to PromptHub so that our PromptOps team can achieve AICI/AICD.

Because it's definitely not easier with 2 lines of code. Not at all.
The entire point was looking at very similar populations, but controlling for one variable (peanut product consumption in early childhood). While I agree that the studies should be expanded outward to ensure reproducibility and verify the hypothesis, a useful starting point is to look at two similar populations with only one variable.
To me it seems clear that most people are going to become a kind of peasant or serf, effectively "owned" by their techno-corporate silo. Programming as a human activity will resemble professional sports or writing: a handful of well-paid superstars and the rest of us mostly just watch/read (although of course we play sports and write, and basic computer literacy should be a thing, eh?)

This might not be so bad? As you've no doubt noticed, most people suffer from some combination of ignorance and stupidity. We can barely function. An earthquake happens and half the building fall down, despite (some) of us knowing how to build them so they don't do that. That's not a technical problem, it's a social problem, eh?

As far as technical problems go, we have pretty much solved "Life on Earth". In video game terms we beat the boss about a century ago (give or take a few decades) and now we're just sort of running around acting silly while the end credits scroll. Atomic power, materials science, etc. We licked it.

IF we employ these newfangled talking computers to tell us how to solve our problems, they will, and we can live happily ever after. (prompt: "What would Jesus do?") It doesn't matter that they're merely regurgitating the wisdoms of the ages, when the computer says it, maybe it will stick?
> the bankers realized that Morgan had locked them in the library and pocketed the key to force a solution, the sort of strong-arm tactic he had been known to use in the past.

While that story is often repeated it sounds for sure apocryphal. A bunch of men from that day and age couldn't have figured out how to get out of that room? Or simply revolted and freaked out? Now maybe he feigned doing that or maybe he actually did 'lock the door' but so what? The story and legend value is just to much to ignore. It's almost certainly greatly exaggerated or not even close to being true. People can't even agree on news that happened in this day and age let alone the golden era of back in the day newspaper exaggeration.

In any case the 'lock' might have been some other leverage he used over the players that wouldn't make sense to the general public or make a good news story.
errno can be set upon failure, and also the behaviour is dependant on the global floating point environment (although passing this around with you would be rather cumbersome)
If OpenAI actually believed this information was harmful they wouldn't have included it in the appendix and distributed through a pdf on their own website.
"Yes, the industry is going to shrink massively"

You meant "expand massively" i think. Did all the programmers manually making machine code get fired and the job of programmer disappear when compilers were invented and totally replaced these jobs? No, it just changed to use the new tool.

There wont be any unprecedented mass layoffs, despite what the jaded STEM-hating twitter crowd wants. Companies will simply make their programmers use these tools to increase the amount of produce per employee, and make software that would have been otherwise financially impossible to be made. Because the competition will do so too to get ahead.
In India there is already a big push towards getting every kid a computer in the government run schools. There are huge companies that deliver computers and then also the teaching/lessons services on top. Now they are also going to latch on to the AI story to make money. Nothing more to it. Meanwhile on the ground teachers are treated like dirt, over worked and under staffed.
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>> self-defeating policy for an insurer.

Bariatric procedures can be included as a sort of "rider". This is typically written into self funded plans. Bariatric is not an essential coverage therefore ACA qualified plans do not typically include them - unless medically necessary.
It is indeed not particularly relevant to the emergence of AGI and its effect on our work.
The ability to explain the code, and extract higher level understanding. Disassembling into raw instructions is the most trivial part of reverse engineering an application. Hence "and explain what they appear to be doing" bit.

For the pieces I've tested, it often recognises the source language, and could give ideas about what the code was for and what it did.
Well the opposite view isn’t really based on science , only in faulty risk mitigation. So is it riskier to let your kid go without knowing for a long time or is it better to test in a limited controlled window where you can react and adapt if something goes wrong.
Watching GPT write code hurts my brain.

It starts at the first character, works forward one “token” at a time, and ends at the last character. Never moving back.

It feels like it knows where it’s going at the first character, even though it doesn’t.

It’s like it starts speaking a sentence and, by the time it’s done speaking, it’s written a syntactically correct Node.js application.

The way GPT communicates in English does seem similar to how humans communicate. The way GPT writes code doesn’t seem to come close to approximating how humans do - it’s an entirely different mechanism. Humans generally can’t write code without a cursor and backspace.
It's almost like it's planned obsolescence...
It is actually an interesting point. Journalists seem to be catching up to the fact that running ( or at least training data ) is not exactly a cheap task and kids aristotle probably shouldn't be trained on 4chan.

Naturally, some analysts would say that means there is tons of consulting money to be made..and it seems like spending is easy and profitable.
"Why don't everyone drive the same car as me? Dress the same as me? Read the same books, watch the same series, talk to the same people? It's clearly working great for me! Buncha rubes!"
No, its not. For one thing, schooling (even preschool) starts well after the target age for this.
I think if you invited a random to a key signing party they might think it’s something else :)
What ended up replacing Flash [for non-interactive animation]? I could never find a straight answer to this.

ControlNet is presumably the future but if I wanted to get into computer animation in 2013, what tools existed?
Completely agreed.

Once we have consumer level AR, our personal AI could take 'physical' (really just visual) form that follows us around.
At this stage, I would sooner give my toddler an all-access pass to YouTube.

I'm not saying this will _never_ be good. But it feels pretty early to unleash this bastion of confidently incorrect answers upon developing minds.
Edinburgh is a pretty fantastic place to start off, FWIW
I've never seen a good definition of financialization. Some mean by it the increasing use of debt. Here it seems to mean that startups are funded by VCs and not by bootstrapping. I'm not sure financialization is a useful word.
My partner, who works at a school, shared an email with me this morning that said "We just received 15 cases of copy paper. This has to last us to the end of the year." Usually when you try to make an honest effort to improve things, you make a ranked list of things that will have the most impact, not a ranked list of things that will be the most entertaining to you. I wonder if these people who think this is a good idea have polled the teachers to see what they think of the idea. I get that part of the silicon valley ethos is "we know best" but come on -- is the "if we gave people what they asked for, they'd get a Zune" approach appropriate for education, when the flaws are so glaringly obvious?

The teachers and schools need more money that goes to teachers and student resources, not more iPads, smartboards, bullshit-artist AI, or overinflated admin salaries. Just call this what it is -- entertainment for technologists.
That version of libnc_cuda.so doesn't seem to be compatible with ts_server though.
Exactly!

(I was a certified Exchange admin, in the 1990s, and have cleaned up several big corporate systems that collapsed.)

It is not the tool you want for business-critical shared network data stores.

And yet, the pairing of Exchange and Outlook is THE MS critical tool that's won them a million corporate accounts.

That's a million corporates, of course. Not seats. Hundreds of millions of seats.
But, curiously, they stop testing at 70 (or was it 72?). That's what my urologist told me last year when I had my exam. Ever since my father had prostate cancer, I've had a yearly PSA and exam by a urologist (thinking that a urologist will be better at detecting tumors than a GP/PCP).
Until a memory overflow in the monstrous machine that is the web browser will be exploited in 5 seconds at the next Black Hat Conference.
I agree with everything, but will push back about everyone having access to everything.. I hope that's mostly read-only or at least a very robust auditing/logging strategy employed.

At $WORK, we give basically every employee a DB role in Postgres, but we use table/row level access control(s) and most can only see their own records, or the records of their employees(if they are a manager). We encourage them to learn SQL(most don't). We also do strong audit/logging controls(essentially pg_audit) so we track every DB change, forever.

Otherwise I completely agree with you that data is almost always quite messy. I can't imagine their EZSQL stuff would work on our data at all. We have tried various other data finding magic stuff, and all of it without fail is basically useless once attached to real data that has lived in the wild for a while(we have data back to the 1990's in our database).
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I think extrinsic motivation—and especially social motivation—is absolutely vital to keeping humans mentally and physically healthy. We've killed a bunch of that in the arts already (who gathers around the piano to sing along with your one cousin who can play all the standards, anymore? How many amateur portrait sketch artists are genuinely valued by their friends and families, rather than humored? Mechanical reproduction destroyed both of those, among others) and we're about to expand that a ton.

I'm not on the "people must work to be happy" train, but I do think they must feel needed to be happy. I don't think most folks are fulfilled playing violin in an empty room for their entire lives except when they can convince some close friend or relative to indulge them for fifteen minutes, or reading all the classics but having no-one to talk about them with (because AI is better at chatting about the classics, too), or writing books that nobody wants to read because AI does it better.

We're about to feel needed for a hell of a lot less than we did before, which level-of-social-need was already much-reduced from its peak. I fully expect a net decrease in overall happiness & mental health, from these developments.
I was wrong. Wrong for doubting the progress of AI, the pace at which things would improve, the usefulness of it all.

I don’t subscribe to the idea of these models having any kind of intelligence (they’re just really good prediction machines), but man, they are getting unbeatable at their tasks, at a breakneck pace.
I’m surprised to see this much negativity on here. The dream where every student can ask questions and work through problems with their own tutor is within reach. This is vastly better than the current approach, and when you combine classroom group work with personalized AI it enables awesome things.

This is coming from someone who found Khan indispensable in high school. I wasn’t alone and at the end of the day watching lectures is an incredibly passive way to learn content.

Software developers using copilot trust AI to write 40% of their code but we think teaching 9 year olds math problems is out of reach? Yes it will have flaws, but there’s so much potential so why not try?
> Amazon, in my opinion, absolutely has control of the ebook market. If they lower prices, everyone else has to lower theirs to keep up.

Uhm? Would you like to try explaining that again?
How would doing it on Mars be any safer than on Earth? Clearly we will have some way of communicating with it, otherwise how are you getting the results of the experiment?
Isn't the mortality because of SIDS? It has not much to do with germ transmission.
I was asking ChatGPT to theorycraft some what-if scenarios with me and one of my flippant requests was "how would the world be different if canines had x-ray vision?"

ChatGPT responded with a bullet list of differences, one of them was just "Seeing eye dog would take on a whole new meaning", this made me laugh and I can't imagine THAT exists in the corpus.
This was also my reaction to the comment. Go play out this type of conversation with ChatGPT. Does it actually do worse at this than at writing the code? Or is "but code generators can't do the requirements part" just a cached thought?
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Well, they definitely do not identify as authoritarian according to the annual surveys. Very few claim to be conservative or reactionist, most are either libertarians, liberals or social democrats.

Anyway, the rationalist community was never about people who were particularly rational, it was all about people recognizing their own irrationality and biases that inescapably comes with being equipped with a human mind. Of course, that does not mean it didn't attract people who thought it was about being a tribe of us, the rational and enlightened people vs them, the irrational plebs. Which is rather ironic, of course.
In my old man yells at cloud moment: I'm pretty sick of experimenting with technology on kids under the guise of learning.

Tablet use in classrooms is bad enough. I want my kid to be able to focus throughout his life, not be a phone zombie.
But what prevents a human from digitally signing content generated by an AI?
Yes and no.

But you're putting forth a "Bozo argument" by noting that that people also shit on the iPhone.

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan

So the fact that some technological advances were laughed at does not mean that because something is being laughed at means it's a technological advancement.

Basically all you've done is say you disagree with the poster. But neither of you have given any sort of reasoning for your positions.

Personally, I agree with your final conclusion. Even as a "fancy autocomplete", this thing is pretty fucking fancy. To toss ChatGPT a basic idea and get back a multi-paragraph text on that idea that only needs to be proofread is pretty choice.

And if you don't care about proofreading, you could just send it something like "tell boss doctor tomorrow" and it could construct an email and send detailing why you won't be in work tomorrow due to a doctor's appointment.

Human communication just got a bit more complicated.
Any particular reason for emphasising the "own domain /control"?
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Yeah, I think there is some other factor that is driving the increase in incidence of peanut allergies. Wife eating peanut butter while nursing doesn't seem to have prevented our oldest child from having a severe peanut allergy. edit--> didn't expect to be downvoted for this comment, lol
This is an extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary evidence.
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It also causes a "single point of failure". If that senior gets hit by a bus then what? Can the company afford to bring in another senior that will take ~6 months to become productive?

I'm not disagreeing with you. Im thinking of going solo myself.
> But I believe technology is the future of education. Instead of having many, many classes of like ~10-50 students with underpaid/overworked/mistreated teachers, some of who are much better than others, we rely on services like Khan Academy. Not even services with an AI, just pre-planned learning modules, and then we can keep a human tutor for those who need extra for whatever reason (e.g. curiosity, more help).

In other words, the future you believe in is one where we lock kids in a cubicle to stare at a screen all day in a warehouse, with a break for recess and lunch? Where the message is, we care so little that we can't even bother to allocate one real person to regularly talk to you?
Perfect response for the subject being discussed -and- your user name -and- a summary of your namesake from of a couple of amazing books by Charles Stross.

I applaud You.

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Also add that these tools have to obey the political stance of what the education system should be teaching, based on the geography of the student. So the AI needs to be intelligent enough to do the "war of northern aggression" shit in some places, the "if you have sex before marriage you will die" shit in other places, the progressive mathematics or whatever it's called in other other places...

I'm imagining the infinite amount of weird model tuning that'd be necessary to ensure only some students learn about white flight depending on what state, county, or school district they're in.
It's only a totally valid approach if you're hostile to it. It's following the letter of the law but not the spirit of it.
The NYT has held their quality standards up pretty well, but most of the newspaper industry had already raced all the way to the bottom by the time Amazon ever launched the Kindle newsstand.

That ship basically sailed away a long time ago. Newspapers gave everything away for free, raced the content to the bottom, and then after nearly 20 years of that finally realized it didn't work.

The content in your online newspaper needs to be very, very good if you want $20-30/month to read it versus the aggregated news services wanting $9.99/month to read news from a wide swath of sources. NYT is good, but it's terrible at replacing your local news sources.
What if LLM knowledge will expand over time to be sufficient for certain real-world application?
Some people are hoping for a catastrophe that will render all their personal problems irrelevant, be it World War III, environmental disasters or societal collapse. Like a snow day for your whole life.
>I'm sure that these AI tools will have some use, but these language models don't know anything

we're still in the early days of LLMs, this is like making a statement on the potential of social networks in the Usenet era. My guess is we'll see specialized tools of all kinds with LLMs integrated in some fashion, it won't be just giving a kid access to a general LLM model

there are already companies that are able to eliminate LLM hallucinations by giving it access to ground truth facts it needs to conform its answers to. Similar things will be done for education type stuff and other use cases as well