skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. Even if you pass the criteria, it's still a waitlist. <You’ll receive another email when it’s your turn to test Bard.> I'll update if they actually grant access today.
Take a peek at EleutherAI.
Chat-Skynet
That's a good point.

By having an assistant guiding you along this helps less capable people do jobs they might have struggled with before. It's not simply bigco firing people doing manual data entry spreadsheet type work but helping people otherwise stuck doing those jobs be capable of doing much more without a big investment in education, or the money to hire people to help them. Which has big implications for people starting small businesses and projects within existing companies which they didn't have the capacity to do on their own (or with a small team) before.

It's the usual story, more people generating higher output means more innovation, developing new niches/industries/product categories/etc at a higher rate, etc which means more jobs, not less, and more tax revenue for government.
More exciting software projects get started on 4chan than Hacker News.
The article...
We still struggle on benchmarking people.
I just can't imagine a less inspiring name. It feels like Bard was a joke, internal name. When OpenAI came out with their stuff, Google decided to rush this to market with little thought given to the branding.
Didn’t they spend hundreds of millions running the training data or something? How are some open-source hackers going to do it?
Again, because machines have different failure modes than humans.
This, plus at that time you would be downvoted to extinction if you dared suggest that printing so many dollars will unavoidably bring inflation.
Money is accrued labor. May it be in the form of money, machines or software. Money is the way to efficiently distribute it. Every purchase you make is a vote for a service or product. It's the most efficient form of democracy. It just sucks because it's scarce and not distributed fairly.
This is why corporate taxation is so important as well as the real solution to rising inflation.

We have the additional factor that the banking sector may not be able to withstand further interest rate hikes due to bad risk management. Protecting the banking system is pretty much the only thing that could prompt lawmakers into action (eg a windfall profits tax) but these aren't ordinary times.

But this will never happen. It's not even a partisan issue. Particularly since the awful "money = speech" decision [1], both sides of politics are bought and paid for by unchecked corporate power (eg [2]).

Corporate consolidation makes this worse. Terms that might otherwise be illegal like "price gouging" and "price fixing" have been replaced by sanitized legal versions like "price leadership", which is basically the same thing. One company raises prices. The other follows suit.

And for some reason corporate profiteering is fine but workers getting paid more isn't [3]. Weird.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

[2]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3rGFyN5uQ
My Experience with Web Components and Stencil
There are at least two completely open models comparably scaled to GPT-3, and at least one open distributed-hosting project.
"Bard isn’t currently supported in your country." The fast adoption of ChatGTP was not is quality but the easy access. I hear about it and the day after I had a shortcut in my browser. If I need to have a reminder to check each week for "Is available yet ?" I will probably lost interest.
Isn’t that the point of the RFC approach to standardization? “Here’s what we think should be done, with the PoC being what we’re already doing ourselves in production; feel free to try our impl out, in order to better notice the design flaws in practice, so that we can talk out what changes could be made before it becomes a de-facto standard we’re all stuck with”? SPDY → HTTP2 was a great example of Google doing exactly this.

The opposite of the RFC approach is the “airy design document written by standards body in reference to nothing, never implemented by anyone” approach; and I know which of the two I prefer.
Check out Llama, Alpaca, Langchain, Dalai.
Fully agree, we need a competitive (even if slightly behind) truly open initiative. The potential (and current) censorship of these models is an oligarch’s wet dream.

With google vs DuckDuckGo etc you can see what websites are returned, and get a sense of the kind of authoritative sources used

With this kind of tech, there’s no real way to know except by comparing precise prompts with one another. But if they’re all behind corporate walls, and they share incentives to say similar things, we’re none the wiser
If Bitcoin had a history of stability your point would have more weight, but as it stands I don’t know how people can present it as a viable alternative with a straight face. Banks are having a crisis—-Bitcoin seems to have at least one every year.
I don't know about Hacker News, but there is a community building an open large language model using compute time donated by cloud hosting companies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EleutherAI

They built GPT-J and GPT-NeoX.
> Surprisingly, Horace He pointed out that GPT-4 solved 10/10 pre-2021 problems and 0/10 recent problems in the easy category. The training data cutoff for GPT-4 is September 2021. This strongly suggests that the model is able to memorize solutions from its training set — or at least partly memorize them, enough that it can fill in what it can’t recall.

Probably the latency of introducing fresh content into the model training will quickly decrease, as these models develop commercial success.

It will be really nice when the AI can provide the most cutting edge solutions and up-to-date information relevant to your query. That will be really valuable, even if the AI cannot yet synthesize novel cutting-edge solutions to new problems.
> Everyone has a nail clipper.

No I don't. The first sentence is already a lie. :-)
It looks like some journalists already have access. If folks see any takes on how this product compares to GPT4 on quality of responses, please share.

Maybe there's an embargo? Because normally if reporters had access, they'd immediately post results to twitter.

Here's one take: https://twitter.com/jjvincent/status/1638182196283609092

- it's faster (though presumably that's because of limited users)

- unlike Bing, it doesn't cite sources (unless it directly quotes them)

- it seems relatively constrained, giving answers that are anodyne and often dull
My retirement plan is my grandfather's M1911. All I've got to do is pull the trigger and the nightmare stops. Knowing I can opt out at any time helps me get through a lot of bad shit.
This is one of the things I'm pretty interested in seeing play out. The technology lowers the skill ceiling for everything. All of a sudden, everyone has their own personal consultant. You can ask very vague questions about business ideas, and it can break the question down into actionable steps for you. Then you can iterate on that and ask it to clarify the things you don't understand. I believe we're going to see a flood of competition enter the business world.
I buy very expensive German scissors for my nail care.

Nails are serious business.
we’ve also built in guardrails, like capping the number of exchanges in a dialogue, to try to keep interactions helpful and on topic

So it's simultaneously more neutered and less stable than what OpenAI already offers, in addition to being years behind. What exactly is the benefit to being an early adopter of this when there are better alternatives?
Android RCE via Phone Number
I get your point about small cities, but suburbs? They are attached to larger cities, so they may take the drive down from 10 hours to maybe 9.5. How does that make that much of a difference?
`Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!`

Yes, I understand the pressure is huge. But all those "soon" are not helping.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i have been using GTP3, chatGPT, Bing i think i know how to use them very wel. And I still confused by all the people claiming that these tools will replace Jobos like programing, etc.
Small demos producing small apps are not even near what a real app development cycle really are. It can generate some code that might work, but then good luck asking it to fix when it does not work on your bigger proyect.

It can certainly empower these jobs, but i still fin really hard to see a near future where these will be completely automated.
Plus please try to talk logically with these tools, most of the times they will fail and alucinate with simple logical questions. You should never rely directly from these outputs, you still have the job to understand (have the knowledge) and verify them.

It clearly is a case of premature hype, these tools are not that capable as people want or fear to believe.
Why does it matter that it’s a headset? People already do this on their phones.
It's being tested, but it remains to be seen what California courts think about that idea, and even if they do recognize it that way, it's not exactly clear how they'd remedy it.

https://corpaccountabilitylab.org/calblog/2022/1/31/sfc-v-vi...
Yes, i can submit photos holding my passport with a piece of paper with a code written on it, my driver's license: somehow it's enough for the KYC in all crypto exchanges and in all online stock brokers, but Google won't take that.
I gave ChatGPT the four cards logic puzzle, lots of humans struggle with it, but chatGPT got it exactly right, so I was very impressed. Then I realised that the formulation I'd given it (the same as the original study) was almost certainly part of its training set.

I made extremely minor changes to the way the question was phrased and it failed badly, not just getting the answer wrong but falling into incoherence, claiming that T was a vowel, or that 3 was an even number.

The largeness of its training set can give an incorrect impression of its reasoning capabilities. It can apply simple logic to situations, even situations it hasn't seen, but the logic can't get much beyond the first couple of lectures in an introductory First-order Logic course before it starts to fall apart if it can't lean on its large training set data.

The fact that it can do logic at all is impressive to me though, I'm interested to see how much deeper its genuine capability goes as we get more advanced models.
Laws, localization, language, the list goes on.
In reality I don't believe that over-optimizing your online dating profile by lying is a major issue. If your objective is to use your profile to find dates, it's important to avoid misrepresenting yourself as it only delays the rejection from the online stage to the in-person stage, which is a more time-consuming and expensive process. Additionally there is limited benefit to exaggerating your profile because your matches will eventually meet the true version of yourself anyway. I think it's best to aim to present an authentic and positive portrayal of yourself in your profile. Ultimately honesty is key as it will lead to more genuine and compatible matches.
Thank you for sharing. This was one of the first funny videos I downloaded from the internet.
It's likely Part 3 of bill C-27 (the "Act respecting artificial intelligence systems and data used in artificial intelligence systems"). Google isn't going to launch Bard in Canada if they'll have to pull Bard once C-27 passes.
Google has lost it completely. I realised when no one was bragging about working for Google or applying for Google about 5 or so years ago.....that it was no longer a cool place to work...just politicians with engineering titles.
There is a big AI division of Google located in the UK (DeepMind). Could be related to that.
By the same token, if all you have is Flask engineers, and you need a Rust service, it's going to be a struggle too.
I'd be okay with that too, but homo sapiens sapiens will be very unhappy quickly. We are not made to sit around and BBQ all day.
There's a negative externality of "punishing" anyone not engaging in this AI faux-reality and as with fashion magazines, altering the perception of what people should look like, leading to psychological damage when we don't live up to the expectation.
I just tried accessing it. When you visit bard.google.com on Firefox it just gives you a generic intro after logging in. I was a little confused and logged in with Chrome, where I now saw a "join waitlist" button. Guess they don't want Firefox user using it.

Overall this just seems underwhelming. Most HN comment's I've read are people saying it doesn't work with their account, doesn't work in their country, doesn't work for some other reason, or works and is very limited compared to ChatGPT.

Google what have you been up to?
While offering mortgages might (like a traditional bank), the "mortgage-debt industry" profits from transacting on debt (the subprime mortgage crisis was a better example of this, and while the industry was bailed out the homeowners were not) which ties in with increasing housing costs (for instance, allegations about certain companies buying up housing stock and overpaying strategically to increase valuations) and foments disparities in housing.
That happens with any self-selected picture already. Angles, lighting, a good night’s sleep…
HR can be a great partner, but they're not going to know the role like you do.
It’s a travesty that the word palindrome is not itself a palindrome.
No One at Google Understands How Google Accounts Work (2018)
We don't even know what AI will look like once it gets into the workplace.

Contemporary AIs are trained on data that is on the Internet. They're not trained on $company's customer service system or compliance framework.

Once they are, they will quickly reach an error rate that's below most workers. And they don't sleep, and they don't take breaks or need to be paid hourly.

And of course OSS always consumes, which means that even with fancy models from OpenAI and others, the OSS solution will likely be good enough for most companies.
> How sustainable

I don't think businesses, or rather the boards and shareholders that run them, care about sustainability - especially if it has a neutral (or, god forbid, negative) impact on short term growth-of-growth or stock prices. If a business goes under because of a lack of sustainable practices, everyone just moves on to a different company.

I'm starting to think that anymore if you want a sustainable business, you can't go public.
I was under the impression that base64 encoding doesn't reduce file size of an image at all, rather it sometimes increases it. That wasn't the point of using base64 string, right?
The question isn't one of citizenship or abstract identity. The question is "Which laws will the content you are served be subject to?". If you don't want to be subject to Spanish law, get out of Spain.
Foreclosure takes many months.
This paper https://cv.cs.columbia.edu/sachit/classviadescr/ (from the same lab as the main post, funnily) does something along those lines with GPT. It shows for things that are easy to describe like Wordle ("tiled letters, some are yellow and green") you can recognize them with zero training. For things that are harder to describe we'll probably need new approaches, but it's an interesting direction.
>- spoon and fork -> spork

but also:

test and spoon -> spork

fork and knife -> spoon

fork and sword -> spoon

knife and sword -> dagger <- a good one

test and knife -> jest

test and sword -> quill
> You’ll receive another email when it’s your turn to test Bard.

> In the meantime, we asked Bard to write you a little poem while you wait.

> May your day be bright,
Your mood be light,
And your heart be filled with delight.
~ Bard
Thank you for registering.

Cute
First of all, money does in fact grow on trees.

Second: UBI is a response to economic conditions, not a driver.

Once the machines can economically/productively outperform most of us, UBI is an alternative to just letting us starve in the street, or riot, or whatever.

The robots provide an economic cornucopia exactly by putting people out of work. Supply becomes effectively infinite but demand/purchasing power falls to zero (because everybody is out of work) so rescue the economy (and civilization) you just give people money.
Compare the Graph with the Headline
uhhhh i wonder why the guy behind curl doesn't have a responsive website. Yeah I get it, he's a c++ developer and web design is not his job but it's not that hard
Mortgage rates are still under 7%.

https://www.fund.com/top/mortgage-purchase/rates/mob/
The gorilla in the room is this: everyone has access to these AI engines. It’s not a “secret sauce.”
I get the concern here, and emotionally I share it. Half of my contacts now have very strange AI avatars as their profile pictures and I still recoil a little every time I see them (the avatars). I think it's a slippery slope and I don't like where it seems to be going.

However, rationally, it's not like humanity has had picture perfect representations of themselves for very long. For most of our evolution, we relied on paintings & sculptures, which it was up to the artist (or the commissioner) to decide on how 'real' they were, and they were almost always "complete fantasy made to mimic reality".

From this lens, the use of unedited real photos of you was the strange period of time, not this AI age we seem to be headed into.

Maybe that helps put your mind a little at ease, maybe it just confuses you more (definitely the latter for me)
But the root cause of the crisis still exists. If you only address the symptoms without solving the root problem that caused the symptoms, then the crisis is likely to happen again.
Google spent years touting its leadership position in AI with DeepMind and Google Brain

now its playing catch up and seems to be flailing around a bit

Pichai really is just looking like a good-times placeholder CEO
Bitcoin != cryptocurrencies. You might as well be comparing dollars and beanie babies. Define "much better" and for who because they're very clearly, very bad at monetary policy.
>> Race to Create A.I. Chatbots

I am glad finally we know what these LLMs are made for.
You're right, I had misunderstood. Thanks for those very interesting links.
> it’s crazy eggs and steak are this expensive

In supermarkets I noticed a surplus on top of inflation, and my thought was that people would swallow that because their reference frame for proper pricing was out the door. So they wouldn't notice the surplus, blaming all to inflation. And subsequently getting used to new above-inflation levels as their new reference.

I'd also guess we get supermarket price wars, when inflation get under control, whereby the supermarkets keep their extra margins and pressure the supply chain below to get prices down.
Few years ago I bought left handed nail scissors.

In scissors the blades do not touch each other (what in my opinion is a problem when cutting nails), but there is a feeling of more control than when using nail clippers.

But in order to cut the right hand I need left handed scissors.. which seem to be so rare.

The article about Kitkats in Japan is also interesting https://one-from-nippon.ghost.io/an-unusual-lucky-charm/
nothing....Sundar won't get fired...oh that's a negative...hmmm...dunno
ChatGPT seems to be doing okay.
Making smaller and atomic commits makes them more easily reversible.
Bugs not being caught by tests seems like a big deal. I recently discovered a bug in the nodejs repl and couldn't get the tests to fail, even though there was a consistent infinite loop. It made me think about how many other tests are not surfacing bugs. It seems this is an example of at least one more.
Other issues aside, is that actually legal? I've always been under the impression that you need to pay local taxes wherever you're working but would be delighted to be proven wrong.
"Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit."
It is an alternative. It’s just more expensive.
So why do they wait 6 months and not change immediately when you get off the plane and use your android phone? And then back? When i get back to the US, i will have Spanish Google accounts for at least 6 (or 12?) months, while using them from my own house.
Different type of psychedelic, different trip experience... also synthetic whereas ayahuasca can be fully natural and traditional
Based on the amount of griping and anxiety about the region lock and not getting access right now, it sure looks like Google has a hit on their hands.
$today + 1 year: "Google shuts down Bard, its AI chatbot"
That would depend very much on your publisher... that could be anywhere from "use this page size and send a PDF" to "manuscripts only and our designer/typesetter/etc. will work on the rest". As someone who has used CSS in the way described here, I think it's beneficial even if you end up having to redo it in InDesign. It may not be a perfect 1:1 but simply coming up with the rules will make setting up styles and master pages in publishing software much more straightforward.
AI is currently regulated by US export law
aren't there already enough houses for everybody? people are just hoarding them.
Yellen vows more U.S. support for small-bank depositors if needed
The old distinction between investment and savings banks seems like one of the many regulations we should bring back. Let businesses choose between the two and if their investment bank goes belly up well that's tough. Could even keep FDIC insurance low for both but like so many things legislatures keep falling to pressure to undo the regulations learned from past collapses.
perhaps....it's because they are not independently operating.....wow!! physics has analogy for quantum particles....banks....they act independent...but they arent
If Bitcoin were the default currency, the value would not fluctuate, it would just slowly rise. Responsible savers would be rewarded. Irresponsible risk takers would generally be punished.
Probably some crazy legal thing, like perhaps you can get it to spit out an ITAR restricted passage of encryption code.
The benefits aren't nullified. As a result you have more homeowners and fewer people paying rent.

This is the desired outcome.
I expect Conservancy will push for either compliance (preferable) or preventing Vizio from using Linux, or potentially assisting Conservancy in going after whichever hardware vendor BSP their violation came from.
Most people around here have a job.
Related / fun :

https://emaggiori.com/chatgpt-fails/

(I don't know the author or the book.)

https://github.com/giuven95/chatgpt-failures

"Plausible explanations
Lack of a world model

Models like ChatGPT do not have a "world model" in the sense that they do not have a comprehensive understanding of the physical and social world, and they do not have the ability to reason about the relationships between different concepts and entities. They are only able to generate text based on patterns they have learned from the training data."
We really need to redo that front page . Ash can be used with or without Phoenix. Ash is an "application framework", and is designed to help you structure your application, something you do by creating resources using `Ash.Resource`. A resource typically refers to some domain object/action. In this resource you declare the "actions" that operate on your resource. There is a lot more to it like GraphQL & JSON:API extensions, all kinds of additional tools and utilities.

In a lot of ways, it tries to cut a good balance between a lot of concepts. The examples at the bottom of the front page show some examples of the way you use it. There are example apps linked from the Media page as well that can illustrate how it works.

I know the front page is missing a lot of key information, but I promise there is tons of useful stuff in Ash, not just buzzwords
Google put one of my email account into a state that I cannot change the password. It somebody wants to brute force the pass from 2010 free to do so. Nothing I can do.
Not available in Canada. So I assume it's US only (Edit: US + Britain only).