skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His comments might have some weight if he actually provided evidence of his assertions. For instance he says "it doesn't know what the words _mean_." How do we indicate/prove that we know what a word means? We can give a definition. We can offer an example of how to use it in a sentence. We can explain and/or demonstrate how its meaning can vary depending upon context. Etc... ChatGPT can do all those things.

So, is there something more fundamental going on in our own brains? If so, what is it?

As far as false vs. true, humans also make many mistakes, confuse references, draw false conclusions drawn from unrelated evidence, and on and on. We also often get things right. ChatGPT is similar.

He just makes conclusory statements so it is just an opinion. I'm not saying any true intelligence has been demonstrated yet, but the progress that has been made in just the last year or two has been enormous. Does anyone doubt the progress won't continue? Something very important is happening and I personally think it is more than just "playing games with words." Just my opinion...
X works just fine for me. Long as you remember to run it under compression.

I suppose it could get absurdly complex if you're a fan of opinionated frameworks and whatnot... For me the basics have been sufficient for the last decade or so.
You don't have a clue what the world is doing. Learn more physics.
"Momentum has been growing for publicly owned banks, which marshal public capital to directly finance things like public infrastructure and can hold public revenues and other assets and service a variety of institutions. Public banks are less prone to bank runs and much more likely to have the liquidity to cover their deposits. The Bank of North Dakota (BND), founded in 1919, is currently the only public bank in the United States,"

I did not know about the BND! Also, this https://i.imgur.com/Qb8qv8o.png
Pretty much; smartwatches were seen as niche and "dorky" before the Apple Watch.
Maria Kodama, Jorge Luis Borges wife, has died
Indeed, the symbolic vs connectionist battle is still going.

GPT plugins like Wolfram alpha seem like a step in the right direction.

For reliability I would prefer the symbolic system to be in charge of the transformer. Like the left and right brain.
I generally agree with your thesis, but:

The F-4 was built for the Navy and the other services saw what a great plane it was and bought in.

The F-35 is intended as a lightweight multi role aircraft, so it’s full of compromises already.

The F-111A/B as a shared USAF/USN aircraft is much harder as there’s not as much margin for compromise in something that is supposed to be the pinnacle of current performance.
It shouldn't be legal to sell these as though they were the real book. There needs to be an asterisk next to the author's name on the front cover.
With the introduction of plugins, is it feasible to give ChatGPT some kind of long term and short term memory model?
hahaha, meta are going to have to actually compete. I suspect the MR experience will suck from apple, but the reality distortion field thats still lingering will tide them through.

At least we know that the apple device, whilst limited in screens and slam, will have a decent software stack that will put consumer's ease of use first, rather than bullshit promotion driven dev from oculus.
Minimalist is not the opposite of complexity.

Really, people working on software should be deeply aware of that. You can have both or neither. And if you go radically optimizing for one, you will certainly get the unwanted extreme of the other (because well, that's what "radical" means).
> Or, more plausibly, lots more anal sex

That's not "ringing true" for me. Is there evidence of this?
Yes - unfortunately uptake is limited as some people see giving your child the vaccine as a green light for sexual activity.
No, Russia.
If "we" already "know" this then why does it fucking keep happening?
Now there is a HPV vaccine for several years already. Shouldn't we be seeing a decrease in cases after a peak before vaccination, if the cause were this?
Did they have "malware development and distribution" on their resume?
What does this do?? Skimmed it but couldn’t find a clue
Who cares about the Nord Stream these days? It was completely discredited even before it was blown up, just like Schroeder. Nobody wants it, not even the people who pushed for it inside Germany, not to mention other countries.
Maybe not a bad story, though watching people get chased around by dinosaurs is undoubtedly more exciting.
Docker images are often tied to CI runs. So a Github action is configured to "bake" a docker image that saves the image to Github Container Registry and a CI platform is triggered to pull the image and run tests immediately thereafter. Imagine this happening on every Git commit in a certain branch.

Often, there isn't time for an image to be pulled from a mirroring serving.
You basically landed on Chomsky's universal grammar. And this only proves the chatgpt critics: we have no idea what those priors are, how they evolved, why they are so effective and thus we are not even sure they exist. Until this is demonstrated I think it is very fair to say chatgpt is applying very different reasoning to what humans are applying.

Also language is a fairly recent development in human evolution (only 60-70 generations ago) which makes it much more puzzling how a mechanism that is so efficient and effective could evolve so quickly, let alone pondering how actual languages evolved (almost instantly all over the world) given how hard it is to construct an artificial one.
Google search has been declining in quality for years. In pursuit of profits they’ve ramped up ads, but the SEO garbage and “helpful” search “corrections” has also fully destroyed the organic results too.

Chat as a search replacement is compelling, and one reason is for now it’s not monetized by ads. That may change, but Google’s stranglehold is materially weakened.
HPV vaccines have been around since 2008. According to the CDC 89% of teens have been vaccinated. So, hopefully that will help stem the tide.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/teenvaxvi...
I mean, if we’re speculating about butt-related things… anal sex has been steadily growing in popularity. Butt implants are a thing now. Also bidets have become more popular since the pandemic.

But at least alien abductions isn’t trending like it was in the 90’s.
Interesting. It was recommended to me for losing weight lol. Are there other lifting protocols more designed for fat loss?

I know Rippetoe's answer to everything is "eat moar fooood!" so yea I kinda see how that meme exists.
Because as depicted in scf-fi, VR would be amazing. The ability to plug-in, or walk onto a holodeck, and frictionlessly experience literally any experience, in perfect, complete sensory detail. Believing people wouldn't want that means disregarding human nature entirely.

The problem with VR/AR is that they anything but frictionless or perfect. They are expensive, uncomfortable and limited. They are a million miles away from what's depicted in sci-fi and likely will be for decades, perhaps hundreds of years. If anything, the sci-fi dream works against them by illustrating just what a stark difference there is between fiction and (artificial) reality.
I hate to break it to you, but the ruling class agreed to this compromise only after 2 world wars. The conflict to resolve was/is not between political parties, but rather between the working class and the ruling class. In this case, the ruling class upended the labor party during WW1, then were obliterated by the Soviet Union for doing a holocaust (WW2), which laid the conditions for the so-called compromise.
Pretty amazing.

I tested aldaily.com and had trouble navigating to get to the articles. Allsides.com worked. Techmeme.com did not work.

gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/links?https%3A%2F%2Fallsides.com%2F

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/li...
I’m wearing glasses too, and they are of the correct power for my needs (as measured by an optometrist). That does not make HN less unusable and the posted page less uncomfortable at 100% zoom from the recommended viewing distance.
The Tinder car heist – and the plot for revenge
I've love each new release of the Thoughtworks radar. It's a great way to discover emerging tech by respected technologists.

Discovering their BYOR feature immediately triggered an idea around understanding your familiarity with prospective tech. E.g., if the tech is in an outer ring, you probably don't want to rush it into production.

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/byor
Original author here. I'm a programmer. I started on the Applied team at OpenAI back in 2020 as a prompt engineer (I helped create many of the examples in the GPT-3 docs.) I became the Science Communicator for OpenAI in 2021.

My blog audience is very non-technical so I write very broadly. We've been super busy with the launch of GPT-4 and Plugins (I produced the video content, found examples, briefed media on technical details, etc.) so I was only able to grab a few hours to put these demos together.

As far as the ChatGPT prompts go, I included a few, but they're just simple instructions. Unlike GPT 3.5 where I'd spend an hour or more getting the right instruction to do zero-shot app creation, GPT-4 just gets it.
Fed the quote and asked it "Richard Stallman has written this, what are your thoughts"
I didn't say counting calories doesn't work :) Just that it's an accounting exercise that doesn't "cause" anything. I am taking account of my calories after I lose weight. Why wouldn't I?
Google not going anywhere, if google come up with something good enough in this regard I’d stick to them knowing they are still very competent at search. Bing just came and hacked something up in a month isn’t very convincing, especially the bing search with Gpt isn’t very good yet. Google observing bing to avoid their mistakes. Remember google came up with Transformers which Gpt relies on
Where was this persistent iteration and overnight success with Homepod, Airpower, butterfly keyboards, touchbar, force touch, MobileMe, Ping?

Apple has had its share of failures like any other company, and kills products like any other company. There is plenty of precedence for their AR headset to just fizzle out.
Sure, but currently almost all of the most popular languages are also not suitable for that niche.

If you exclude any garbage-collected language, you're basically left with Ada, C, C++, some of the "C/C++ successors" (Zig, D, Carbon, maybe Nim), and Rust.
Your Process Should Be Open Source
> It has no intelligence; it doesn't know anything and doesn't understand anything.

I don't like the word "intelligence". It's too arbitrary and depends on the language. In my native language, there are two synonyms which imply different thresholds for something to be considered intelligent. I'm sure in other languages it's also pretty arbitrary.

Instead, let's compare those models with complex biological systems we typically consider to be at least somewhat intelligent.

- biological systems use spiking networks and are incredibly power efficient. This is more or less irrelevant for capabilities.

- biological systems have a lot of surrounding neural and biochemical hardware - hardwired motorics, senses processing, internal regulators. Complex I/O is missing from these models, but is being added as we're talking. The large downside of current models is that it cannot understand what drives humans as it has different hardware, it's trained on their output, and has to "reverse engineer" the motivation. Which might or might not be possible, but it makes them different.

- biological systems are autonomous agents in their world. They exist on an uninterrupted timeline, with input and output streams constantly present. Those models don't exist on a timeline, they are activated by the user each time.

- biological systems have some form of memory; they compress incoming data into higher order concepts on the fly, and store them. This is a HUGE DEAL. The model has no equivalent of memory or neuroplasticity, it's a function that doesn't keep any state. LLMs have the context which can be turned into a sliding window with an external feedback loop (chatbots do that), however it's not equivalent to biological memory at all, as it just stores tokens verbatim, instead of trying to compress the incoming data.

- biological systems exhibit highly complex emergent behavior. This also happens in LLMs and even simpler models.

- biological systems are social. Birds compose songs from tokens, and spread them through the population. Dogs, monkeys, and humans teach their kids. The mental capacity of a human isn't that great; every time you think you're smart, remember that you stand on the shoulders of giants. The model does have much more capacity than a human.

My own conclusion: sparks of "intelligence"? Undeniably, the emergent behavior alone is enough. They do understand things, in the conventional terms. However, they are also profoundly different than human intelligence, and still lack key elements like the memory.
A quick guide to copywashing
All that companies do in the US is make money from other people's ideas. It's like a furtive and sneaky version of China.

There is no innovation in the US, nothing that would make me want to get up and go to work in the morning.
> But since the world is not composed of two people, if one person fervently believes that the moon is made out of cheese and the rest of humanity does not, the anti-cheesers are not extraordinary, and the singular cheeser would likely be classified as mentally ill.

> Yes. But that doesn’t mean you should visit a mental institution to get the “truth” behind the invasion of Ukraine.

Good, then if the majority is right we just have to ask what the world thinks about the situation in Ukraine. Currently the large majority of the world disagrees with the western point of view. India is not siding with the west, neither does China, neither does Africa or South America.

What does that tell you?
Its hard to say what the future will be because it highly depends on accessibility to AI compute for the average person. Right now, you need a massive power source to run GPT 4 on pretty specialized compute units. Its unclear how this is going to pan out in the future.
The HPV vaccine was either not available, or not scheduled early enough for these 30- and 40-somethings mentioned in the article.

Some 80% of adults carry one strain of HPV or another, so vaccinating after you have become sexually active is mostly ineffective.

For the even younger generation that is getting the vaccine early, it might have an effect
Or, viewed differently, additional help to Ukraine now will prevent some of those later problems too.
I thought the quote was from John Steinbeck

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/328134-john-steinbeck-once-...
The simple fact that we are having these conversations every day now indicates we have crossed some sort of threshold. I find it fascinating, exciting and terrifying. It’s hard to wrap around the head about what’s going to happen a month from now.

Isn’t this what the singularity is about? Not being able to imagine what lies ahead?
I'm not so sure about the ads.

Search lends itself well to interleaving ads with output, so you can place more ads while maintaining user tolerance and "get away with them". With LLM output you have to show the ads in the margins as integrating ads into the output itself would lower performance.

Sure, you can do that, but does it fully substitute for previous ad revenue? It seems to me that the form factor of LLM search vs trad search has reduced ad surface area.

Microsoft is well-positioned to monetize LLMs in other ways, e.g. via 365 and other subscription services, many aimed at enterprises/b2b. Google is much less well-developed there atm. If they can subsidize lower ad annoyance in their search/chat product via other revenue that could make a real diff.
Doesn’t this just boil down to whether GPT can distinguish between human written answers and GPT written ones? The actual questions don’t matter at all.

It doesn’t seem like a hard problem if you use a default prompt.
Maybe, you could give it a combination of both. We'll call it long short term memory.
Lol what would they even use to measure a million of a currency in De Tocquevilles time?
Very late on this one :P But I think the difference is the fact that ports are unique, so if the kernel assigns you a bad source port by accident then it can't change it later. You would need to know this is what happened and bind to a new source port (and do you attempt automatic again?). Where-as with overcommit, your program doesn't know or care what particular memory page you're using, and the kernel can easily fix things up in the background (Ex. use swap, or kill some other process) without you ever knowing about it.
I’ve been getting a lot mileage out of safari’s and brave’s reader mode
Yes, I do. I'm not going to participate in my hobbies if I don't like all of it. That's what hobbies are for.

Raising children is an interesting one to bring up because the vast majority are forced into it, societal pressure mixed with accidental situations. I'm sure if you ask the older couple who have been trying for ages to have a child if they enjoy raising the child they finally adopted if they love all of it, they would say yes even the messy parts they find joy from.

Vacation is another one, there is no reason to dislike any part of going on a vacation, but a lot of people do because they go with people they don't really want to go with. They go somewhere because it's the top 5 best places to visit and not because they truly desire visiting that place. None of it stems from a serious desire to enjoy that vacation, but an obligation.

Which is part of the problem. A lot of people aren't actually taking the time to step back and question whether or not they enjoy doing what they're doing. They're just doing it because they're forced to, because they don't want to get left behind, or they already made commitments.

So I don't believe it's healthy to keep this going and then to make excuses for work that we have to hate parts of it - cause factually there are many people who LOVE the work they do, why can't we all be as fortunate? Step back and reflect. Maybe you'll learn something new about yourself.
Weights can be retrained but cannot be explained. Recent papers even demonstrated backdoors : https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07840

Therefore a real open source model needs a public dataset and training code.
If a search engine can answer your question what's the point of watching an ad? You just get all the information inside the platform. The essence of ads is to visit a third party website that might have what you're looking for.

Ads could work when you're looking for products. In which case the usefulness of an AI is limited.
> This line of "reasoning" is also how LLM functions

And this would rank them below rubbish, because that behaviour, of unfounded repetition, is directly unintelligent, and is what you want to avoid, the opposite of what we seek.

> So much of human "reasoning"

Description is not prescription; that millions of Spanish speaking people say 'Argelia' does not mean it is a good idea; that billions are illiterate constitutes a frequentistic norm, not a normative norm...

> We ping pong

Please don't. Evaluate your ideas and statements foundationally, and through foundational inheritance, and through rankings of doubts, and frequent checks and doubts, like the others do.
> I can only personally apologize to all other EU nations. A party with about 5% popularity is holding our government hostage.

I can relate; we have the same in Norway, but I don't see it as a bad thing. Sure, it's an annoyance, but I would rather have those 5% a voice than none at all. Or else we'll run into the problem of having a few parties having too much power.

You are also right that this is just _today_; people change their mind, and it's a long time until 2035.

For the article itself:

Set aside the fantastical tabloid headline, it's important to notice that: "In a reversal that stunned many EU insiders, the German government decided to push for a loophole that would allow the sale of combustion engine cars beyond the 2035 deadline — as long as they run on synthetic fuels."

So, keep the combustion engine, but make it env-friendly.

I don't see a problem with it.
We should just call it what it is: an LLM. Other terms are far too broad and lump GPT-4 in the same bucket as a chess engine.
The original is based on a stereotype of black people having shining white teeth.
Did you have a US license? We’re moving to Czechia this year and I’m trying to figure out what I can do about driving. What made you finally get a license there?

Also was thinking of getting a motorcycle license in the US so I can use it there for a while (since the moto license school is $1200usd vs 250 for a class in the us).
Most of the things you believe are not backed evidence that you are personally aware of. Each of believes things to be even though we have at best only a heuristic argument to support them.

It is clear to me that the American diet is poison. We add sugar to everything. It’s hard to buy bacon without sugar added. Our bread is more like pastry. When I lived in Germany the diet felt much better. It would not surprise me to find out that part of the rise of cancer is our over engineered food products.
Something my toddler would probably say as well. Does not mean my toddler has no intelligence - just not wired up to do that yet. Just as humans grow and mature through time, further iterations of AI models will as well
HoloLens is (soon to be was) a great AR device. Certainly useable and competent but it suffered from the same issue over and over: once the gee wiz demo was over, outside of a few very niche uses, people went back to using their laptops and smartphones. Because it’s easier to just pull out your smartphone, get whatever you need done, then put it back in your pocket.

This rapid and random access is why people love smartphones so much. With a headset, you either have to be wearing it all the time (something people aren’t willing to do; it’s like wearing sunglasses indoors no matter how good the waveguides are) or have to take the time to take a fragile headset out of its case, put it on your head, adjust to the complete take over of your field of view & environment, then figure out what you need to do using an input modality (be it voice, gestures, an input peripheral or some combination) that is far inferior to a touch interface for the 90% of tasks.

People like to claim that AR is less intrusive than a smartphone but all the cases they present are carefully crafted demo’s. If you watch actual people use AR devices trying to accomplish some task you immediately notice that isn’t true at all.

It will be interesting to see how Apple has addressed these problems but AR needs to be better at doing tasks average people can already do well with a smartphone, and like I mentioned you have an uphill battle due to the headset form factor alone.
Libertarian? Privacy conscious liberal? First amendment conservative?

No.
I actually like Google Bard. I find the responses from Bard are superior over ChatGPT. Have others used Bard?
These boards confuse me so much. The microcontroller is a Renesas RA4M1 running at 48MHz. However, the Wifi version uses an Espressif S3 module. However the S3 is a dual core microcontroller that runs up to 240 MHz. Why not base the board on that, or perhaps even the RISC-V version of ESP32? ESP32 has plenty of pins, deep sleep, etc.

Is it only to keep pinout/5V compatibility with older Unos? I think their bigger problem is that there are a lot of good competitors now and their boards are severely overpriced for what they offer.