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It's definitely still early in the market, people are mostly still experimenting with LLMs rather than being committed to any specific provider. Long-term it won't matter if Google is a few weeks or months behind OpenAI if they can make a successful competitor.
What do you mean “awful”? You’re not meant to read it. We don’t even materialize it into our repos - the build system generates it at compile time. When you go-to-definition in there it’s a little weird, but it works.
> If we consider consumer credit, the welfare-debt theory makes sense again. While consumer credit is more the exception than the norm in Europe, and almost absent in the Nordic countries, it is common in Anglo-liberal countries (UK, US and Canada) where it is used by families as a substitute for poor welfare provision.

Hmm - in Norway here, it's common to see advertising for credit (lots for fixed unsecured loans.) Basically all the grocery store chains except one have their own loyalty credit card. I never watched an episode, but there is a show called Luksusfelle which tries to help people reform their out-of-control finances - I think more than once, credit cards were mentioned. I mean, it's not like the US and the regulatory environment is more consumer-friendly than the US, but I cannot imagine it as non-existent as it is said here.

I am not being coldly statistical here, but it really doesn't match up with a lot of the anecdotal experiences I have.
How is GPT-4 at Contract Analysis?
A LLM by itself could generate data, code and iterate on its training process, thus it can create another LLM from scratch. There is a path to improve LLMs without organic text - connect them to real systems and allow them feedback. They can learn from feedback from their actions. It could be as simple as a Python execution environment, a game, simulator, other chat bots, or a more complex system like real world tests.
> It also was a time where companies were paranoid into letting employees access the internet, but at the same time had abysmal security

In the early 2000s I was working at an insurance company. They used some kind of blocker in their outgoing firewall that prevented access to certain sites. At one point the blocklist included sourceforge, which threw my team's work a wrench because at the time a lot of the packages we depended on were hosted there. It took a few days to get that removed from the blocklist.

This same insurance company shut down for multiple days when a virus, I think it was ILOVEYOU, infested their email system so bad that nobody could work, and everyone (except the poor IT folks) got a long weekend. And then a while later, it happened again, but with a different virus, possibly Nimda. The company was very bad about updating its systems, and even in 2003 most users were stuck on Win95.
You, like many others, are basing your opinion on the current state of LLMs/GPT. And I totally agree with you, the current GTP-4 version might not replace programmers. But how about future iterations? Personally I can't fathom what the next few years will bring us in this area, especially considering the jump GPT 3.5 to GPT 4 has made in such a short time frame. I'm almost convinced that it will make a lot of jobs obsolete in the future, including some programmer jobs, but I'm not bold enough and make a prediction when this will happen, be it in 2, 4, 10 or 20 years.
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Whether or not the photon is collapsed isn't the process that makes entangled particles "spooky" though. (Sorry I should have originally stated this)

Its that they have opposite states when you collapse them. So collapsing one doesn't collapse the other. Its just that when you collapse one (by measuring it) you can know the state of the other (even if it's on the other side of the universe).

The real "spookiness" is that the particles don't have a predetermined state "underneath" their superposition. When you collapse one its odds of being heads or tails are 50/50 up to the moment you collapse it. And when you collapse it you know what reading you will get when you collapse the other one.
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Because corporations only became greedy in 2023.

/s

It's all pretty silly.

I can go to the store and buy a TV for half of what it cost me 5 years ago, even with inflation.

Companies push prices down as well as up.
So this sounds like a deliberate design choice. Like when Intel went from pins to balls shifting the complexity to the motherboard. There are always trade-offs. I guess the idea is that the overhead is worth the benefit to the ecosystem and if the vendor really needs to they can create a chip that is only conformant at a user level but not at a priveledged level and still better than starting a custom ISA from scratch.
Meanwhile https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-vi... doesn't mention Linux.
Looks like it's already offline?
https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/21/stanford_ai_alpaca_ta...
> I think you are too much focused on global agricultural productivity, which will not be a life-or-death problem for anyone with access to the global market

That one thing I was focused on, but there were others that a are other that appear to be missed, for instance take your...

> farmers in some communities such as central Africa, rural Asia, indigenous populations, who don't import their food from around the world

What will be their actual experience? The estimates seem to assume they'll just keep doing the exact same thing they are now, but that's easy to model but unrealistic. It's extremely likely they'll change their crops or techniques to improve yields in the new environment, and I think results derived from model that doesn't account for that are not useful to a layman.
To be fair, “sufficient checks” and “mostly ok much of the time” does imply something not well understood to me. Maybe you could clarify instead of snapping at people, try writing again, if that’s not what you meant?
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Yes how convenient of him to step down days before having to make a difficult announcement and instead pawning it off on the new interim CEO instead.

So admirable. How this could be characterized as "going down with his ship" is absolutely wild to me
use a vpn?
HN can't think past price goes up/down and see that a lot of crypto is a valuable resource that you can use as collateral and borrow against it without having to go to a bank and beg for permission.
Australia springs to mind, and to the surprise of no-one Bard is not available in Australia.

I really get the feeling that Google is terrified of success. They haven't launched a new sucessful product in God knows how long.
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Is this all Adobe developed or they are relying on partners?
Yes, loans predate central banks by a long shot. They were prevalent in ancient Rome and interest rates were determined by the market based on risk, supply and demand, etc.
There would absolutely still be mortgage lenders without artificially low federal funds.

I manage a fund in Canada that does exactly that. We have a pool of investors, and lend out on mortgages only. Primarily in markets larger institutions won’t touch.
The page is utterly undescriptive on what google bard is. Given the hype about Large Language Models recently I assume it's yet again a chatbot of sorts ?

Can anyone here enlight us ?
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My mother cares more about her cats than I. So this rings somewhat true.
I wonder how powerful DAG based tools like airflow are, no loops possibly make them less powerful than finite state machines
GPT is a token prediction engine. It predicts what the next token is, and it does that very well. Its logical abilities are emergent and are limited by the design of the network. Transformers are constant-time computations: they compute a fixed number of steps and then they stop and produce a result. This is very different to how humans think, we can expend more time on a difficult task (sometimes years!), or give an instant answer to an easy task. And we have a conception of when a task is done, or when we have to think more.
At this point, I'd flip whatever mental models you have for how 2010-era Microsoft and Google operate.
Yet, wherever you are, the worst kind of debt is a real drag once you realize you were not so smart with some spending :/
Obviously requires an Adobe account, which hints at it being folded into their subscription pricing. I wonder if this is a customer retention move given the number of third-party plugins to use Dall-E, SD, Midjourney, etc. with Photoshop.

(I also wonder who is powering this or if it's an in-house solution -- that should be telling...)

Edit: Why, they've trained this on Adobe stock images. OK, this may be very interesting for publications worried about copyright.
Yeah, a good thought experiment (or possibly even a good experiment to just straight up run) is to try and decide what's the simplest computer program that could possibly pass the bar exam. And then ask people if they would feel comfortable with that program being their lawyer.

So the most obvious solution is to steal the answers and then have the computer blindly paste them into the test, although critics might say that this is 'obviously' not the same as was the language model is doing.

I suspect you could pass the bar exam with a bunch of regexes that have an associated formattable string and/or answer result. If someone actually did this, I wonder if people would still be excited about language model techniques passing the bar exam.
Like Microsoft's Copilot? It may be better than putting a specific use case as name.
Except it did. Multiple times. And I vaguely recall one incident where they couldn’t revert although maybe I’m misremembering.

> The Linux ABI definition is both fuzzy and controversial. Some ABI breaks are unavoidable. [1]

[1] http://she-devel.com/Chaiken_LinuxABI.pdf

Ultimately it sounds like the policy is actually 0 “reallly bad ABI breaks” where “bad” is a subjective evaluation of how many bug reports they get or breaking something foundational (eg pulse audio). It’s just not possible to freeze the ABI because people may have found kernel bugs and worked around them and the fix for the kernel bug breaks the workaround. That’s what Hyrum’s law means and the Linux kernel doesn’t have a unique solution here. Don’t get me wrong. They do a fantastic job all things considered. But the “never break ABI” is more marketing than a hard and fast rule (but yes they generally get as close as is feasible to sticking to it)
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The world is not a friendly place and some people do want to use ai against you and your interests. If the model is open source it makes this harder.
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I was also joking, which makes this thread even more funny.
Company I work for still blocks SourceForge because... something bad happened 15 years ago (?).
Right, but due to migration, this is also a problem within regions where a language is the primary language.

Any connection you draw between native language and region is tenuous at best.
First time homebuyers can get a FHA mortgage for 3% down. I think most people thinking about buying a house could put together $7,500 on a quarter million dollar home. And if you're looking to spend more than a quarter million on your first home, well then maybe that's the issue. Starter homes exist in all but a handful of cities.
It is their version of ChatGPT: https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-upda...
I agreee, its sad, the old google is gone and will also never return. But the decline began already a decade ago.
It became an ad-driven corporate behemoth, so any innovation coming out of it will be related to these factors.
Yes, like that startup 'Microsoft' that launched Bing Chat globally a few months ago.
There’s a great book on this subject.

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It's a trap. They already have you locked in for photo and video work, AI is the chance to escape them.
"Open" as discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246253
I don't know for the most recent versions but until recently there always was a button configuration on all Fords which does this without obd adapter. Requires a bit of searching but there are plenty of forums describing it. The combinations might differ per model though.

Al that DRM also makes it neigh impossible to self service your car these days.
Can you be specific and less vague? I don't understand what the issue is.
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I was confused too. If Bard is Google's version of ChatGPT, their landing page is an interesting way to position the product.
No? Government is the people currently elected. Nothing to do with courts. And law was decided by previous governments. Giving money to the current/future government to create new law which you like is called lobbying, or bribing (whatever floats your boat).
I'd say there is a teensy-weensy difference between "it can't be ruled out yet, but there is no evidence" and "it's definitely the only explanation, so let's screw with any slightly chinese looking person".
Closed beta. Requesting access requires filling out a four page form. Product page is a bunch of hand-selected images.

Nothing to see here.
> Local banks, credit unions, etc are NOT on the "too big to fail" (or "systemic risk") list so therefore they can fail and will be allowed to fail.

Sorry but isn't this only a problem for those with more than $250k, and that frankly is a lot for an individual. And even then you could just create another account at another local bank and you're golden. If you have a million cash, then handling four bank accounts is really not a bad problem.
tldr: It's not my problem

That's a valid perspective, but remember that the quality degraded when we started having paid memberships and ads to websites.

What's a news outlet worth paying for? who actually pays for content online? who knows how to block all ads and didn't do that?

That business model really proved to be worthless, it dragged the quality down with more desperate pay-to-read prompts. Nobody will miss this and we will have again people with real world experience writing knowledge or opinions in their free time. So it goes back to that, quoting scientific papers, books and actual reputable and knowledgeable people writing blog posts.

With the news being mostly propaganda, I don't know what to quote there and how many outlets still have a reputation.

I personally write during my free time in my personal ad-free minimalistic website and have list of blogs I track for contents.

Things changes, waiting for full time "authors" to come up with a profitable plan to just progress is also not an option.
Looks pretty polished honestly. I wonder who they're partnering with for the GPUs. Does Adobe have their own data centers?
eh don’t need, it’s google so we know it sucks compared to GPT.
"Bard does not currently support Google Workspace accounts or when our systems indicate you may be under 18."

Why specify both conditions - if google isnt sure which one of "under 18" or "logged in with a paid account" it is then they are not putting their best on the job.
If you're trying to convince people to replace humans with your tech then I could see a business not wanting to appear like they're struggling with demand (although, like you I don't think that's the right choice).

Like the sibling comment said, it could also be limited by developer capacity - they reportedly have 350 employees (excluding contractors helping with training), with that elite size you wouldn't want to be supporting a large set of different clusters.
Interesting that the large company AI products (this, Microsoft copilot, etc) are so much more compelling than any of the startups I’ve seen.

Makes me think that we haven’t seen what true innovation looks like in this space. Right now, AI is a feature, not a product.

Edit: Not talking about the models themselves (stability, mid journey, GPT-x), talking about what is built on those models.
Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!
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Based on my experience with the podcast product they released recently I am excited to see what this would look like. I think they can execute on UI for working with generative AI much better than others.
Ah yes. Because the world is only the US and the EU.
One place it doesn't work is razors. I've never been so happy with expensive razors and cartridges as I am with my simple, cheap handle and double-edged razors. But then, I do spend the few extra cents each for the good blades, so maybe it does work after all.
Perhaps that's why ChatGPT is so overwhelmingly censored. Maybe Google can be more free-wheeling with Bard by keeping in the US for now?
I can see how you would read it as such, but I'm mostly saying: Transients are a huge part of how we perceive sound. A speaker with properly timed transient response allows the speaker to reproduce sound more accurately. The importance of this attribute naturally follows.

The unique characteristics of certain sounds will be lost when the speaker is unable to translate its wavelengths properly in the analogue space within the required period.
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Just got a:

> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!
JPMorgan Chase thought it had $1.3M worth of nickel stored in a warehouse
"We're starting to start the beginning of letting people try so they can now apply to our waitlist so they can be emailed that it's their turn to try Bard, the AI experiment."
This person hasn't heard of pandoc I guess
> In places like the EU, governments see Google as a giant piggybank of funding. They know Google will not pull out of any region as large as the EU, so they will use any excuse to introduce fines and penalties. They also know Google can, and will pay. Hence they've hit Google with nearly €10B in fines over the last few years

Those fines were clearly not high enough.
Did you know the job required relocation when applying? Was it brought up during the interview process? If so, from their point of view you already had time to make the decision. In those circumstances I might see the request for additional time as a red flag and also reach out to other candidates. If the offer was the 1st time hearing of the relocation requirement, I would consider the request for a week to think about it as reasonable.
I think this probably keeps the average horse up at night
https://cdn.virtualface.app/media/styles/030beee6-e882-4c3d-...

0_o
How is this 'Firefly Model' trained and sourced? Will it be on the contents of the stock.adobe.com library?

Clicking through the available pages it seems like a lot of 'coming soon' talk, so there's not really any detail about any of the underlying process.
would be interested in that as well
That makes sense, thanks for clearing that up.
magical thinking about very un-tethered and highly manipulated currency is not a help.

imagining it will change for an entire economy ... is quite irrational.

no magic will make a constantly shifting ice floe into boring bedrock.
https://hpbn.co/ is an awesome resource.
What this reinforces is that unlike with previous big innovations (cloud, iphone, etc), incumbents will not sit on their laurels with the AI wave. They are aggressively integrating it into their products which (1) provides a relatively cheap step function upgrade and (2) keeps the barrier high for startups to use AI as their wedge.

I attribute the speed at which incumbents are integrating AI into their products to a couple things:

* Whereas AI was a hand-wavey marketing term in the past, it's now the real deal and provides actual value to the end user.

* The technology and DX with integrating w/products from OpenAPI, SD, is good.

* AI and LLMs are capturing a lot of attention right now (as seen easily by how often they pop up on HN these days). It's in the zeigeist so you get a marketing boost for free.
Sign up for the waitlist at https://bard.google.com/
Is this the same thing that made this guy freak out last year? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31704063
>but `davinci-003` is not an alternative to ChatGPT

Why makes you believe that? In my testing davinci does better than gpt-3.5-turbo for most tasks.
Are recruiters really that sophisticated? I would find that rather surprising
all you've asked is in the FAQ, right at the top.
Agree: compression is straightforwardly prediction.

Prediction is intelligence when you're able to do it well across disparate novel tasks.

(Of course definitions are idiosyncratic, but I'm curious if anyone disagrees with these ones.)
Maybe we just didn't stay enough tuned, eh.
> And if all you have is $10mm on your checking account but no income, you don't pay any taxes anywhere.

Wealth taxes are a thing too, e.g., in Switzerland.
> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!

nice /s
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You can even deliver with a single person. But that leads to more time spent on building. Adding more people adds more time spent on communication. There is a sweet point somewhere, but there's no formula to find it, as many factors depend on the human side of the software developers.
Not sure, i could see it with Google Mail, but with this one i'm not sure since the alternatives seem to be better. Just having the name Google won't make it a better product.
I cringed at that too lol
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Their blog about their methodology[1] implies to me it's an in-house solution. They also talk at length about maintaining provenance, ethics, and transparency. I found it a much more informative read than the product announcement.

[1] https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2023/03/21/responsible-inn...
Not even the wait list works..
Undeniably, in the beginning, yes. Eventually it would be distributed more evenly as those people spend or die. We already have billionaires and the difference is that, with the current system, their money will not become distributed. They fail and then the government prints more to rescue them or they just print it and give it to them directly to "prime the economy". i.e. The Cantillion effect.

The people should control the money and that's only possible with Bitcoin.
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I’m part of a collective of people that takes exams for people remotely.

I would exclusively rely on exam dumps; no longer is the case.

ChatGPT, and specifically GPT-3.5-turbo, is not only able to consistently answer novel, new, and fresh exams accurately; I have yet to fail an exam for a client.

I’m talking about brand new exams released in 2023, never before seen questions out in the wild.

GPT-3.5 (and GPT-4, which I have not needed to test as much) is incredibly good at reasoning and novel exam questions.

Take this with a grain of salt as you do all things on the internet.

The exams I talk about are the highest levels of certifications possible. GMAT, to professional IT certs. All doable.
It's the reality equivalent of that WKRP In Cincinnati bit where they toss turkeys out of a helicopter.

As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly.
I get where you're coming from,but...

If you continue to willingly use socials like FB, TikTok, et al, your complaints about stolen personal data fall on deaf ears. Show me that you don't have those apps installed or do not visit their websites, then we can talk about being serious on deserving to not have data stolen.
Not even proprietary, plenty of RTOS options that are MIT
IMHO,it was only a matter of time before the big names started to include AI generations on their software. I'm guessing if most of the AI design tools that are being launched everyday and which relies mostly in consuming a public api could be easily absorbed?
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There's a difference between finance and economics. Economists would be the experts at the macro level. Of course, experts aren't so great at analyzing a system as complex as the economy. But at least that is what they are attempting to analyze, unlike other fields.