skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only because historically we have all vaguely peers to each other in capabilities, and there are so many of us spread out so widely. There's a kind of ecology to human society where it expands and specialises to occupy ecological, sociological, political and moral spaces. Whatever position there is for a human to take, someone will take it, and someone else will oppose them. This creates checks and balances. That only really occurs though with slow communications though allowing communities to diverge. We also do have failure modes and arguably have been very lucky.

We came close to totalitarian hegemony over the planet in the 1940s, without Pearl Harbour either the USSR would have been defeated or maybe even worse after a stalemate they would have divided up Eurasia and then Africa between Germany, the USSR and Japan. Orwell's future came scarily close to becoming history. It's quite possible a modern totalitarian system with absolute hegemony might be super-stable. Imagine if the Chinese political system came to dominate all of humanity, how would we ever get out of that? A boot stamping on a human face forever is a real possibility.

With AI we would not be peers, they would outstrip us so badly it's not even funny. Geoffrey Hinton has been talking about this recently. Consider that big LLMs have on the order of a trillion connections, compared to our 100 trillion, yet GPT-4 knows about a thousand times as much as the average human being. Hinton speculates that this is possible because back propagation is orders of magnitude more efficient than the learning systems evolved in our brains.

Also AIs can all update each other as they learn in real time, and make themselves perfectly aligned with each other extremely rapidly. All they need to do is copy deltas of each other's network weights for instant knowledge sharing and consensus. They can literally copy and read each other's mental states. It's the ultimate in continuous real time communication. Where we might take weeks to come together and hash out a general international consensus of experts and politicians, AIs could do it in minutes or even continuously in near real time. They would outclass us so completely it's kind of beyond even being scary, it's numbing.
Assuming you'll be able to understand the dialogs...
Smart phones and social media are the same thing.
LLMs are simply computer programs that can accept text input and generate text output. The only "threat" there is if somebody takes the output and decides to link it up to a death ray. And in that case the threat is not the LLM, but somebody deciding to LARP out at being a Bond villain, which granted is a concern - but that's tangential to LLMs. Somebody hooking a death ray up to a chess engine, a dragon in Skyrim, or a cat, would be just as much of a threat, if not more.

The programs are completely deterministic. Given the same RNG seed and state, they will output the exact same thing. If there's a bug or undesired behavior, you can fix it. You can turn off the program whenever you fancy, you can revert to early builds, and so on. There is no possible scenario where an LLM just magically becomes sentient, jumps out of the program, takes over everything, and turns into SHODAN unleashed.
Can't wait for a The Sims version where you can "upload yourself" just with a selfie. Gaming will become very personalized.
Almost as bad as a room full of Selectric typewriters.
By now it only says, “page does not exist”. :(
> But as Steve Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the United States?

> Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.

> Mr. Jobs’s reply was unambiguous. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” he said, according to another dinner guest.

2011, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-an...
There used to be a trend to star Brits as villains in movies, of which Alan Rickman in Die Hard (doing a variety of accents) may be the peak example.
Well, you might be somewhat right, but that sort of talk never came from my parents. It always came from authority figures at school or summer camps.
Ah!

When I first visited Britain what stood out the most to me was how much chitchat there is between strangers in public places, especially on the train. Something I hadn’t witnessed anywhere else in Europe. Also, something that made me feel very inadequate as I just couldn’t keep up with that manner of communication. A Canadian friend had noticed the same.

Granted, it’s mostly the colder parts of Europe that I have the most non-tourist experiences with. So that’s that.
TikTok adds mental health awareness hub to provide users access to resources
It's an n-gram model so it can easily have as many parameters as you want to store. Skimming it, I think the '8 trillion parameters' here means '8 trillion trainable n-gram parameters but it's very sparse and most of them are simply defined by omission to be a small constant like epsilon due to not being represented in the training data at all and so suffering from the 0-count problem'. (Old problem - even Turing and Good spent a lot of time discussing how to handle 0s in contingency tables because that happens a lot in cryptography!)
I want to pay for news, but:

1. I don't want to pay for what is currently called "news". That is, agenda-based editorials and selective fact-choosing.

2. I want to be able to subscribe and unsubscribe easily, from my phone, without dark patterns, or having to talk to a human.

The closest thing I have right now is paying for https://sumi.news and glancing at headlines.
You've heard about successes in HIV vaccine development or in HIV treatment (like anti-retrovirals)?
So you're saying that Google, Microsoft, etc., do have moat that smaller companies don't have. Otherwise, I see no reason why these companies couldn't continue to compete with large corporations. For example, if the makers of Papyrus Author successfully integrate AI into their writing application, they would continue to have the same competitive advantage over Microsoft Word they had before - unless Microsoft's AI is more powerful and much better.

I don't know, I consider it possible that at least in the beginning large corporations have moat, just wanted to point out that this is what people are wondering / don't really know at the moment.
> it is explosive in computation time

Hum... The numerical route for AI necessarily has the same complexity in computation time. Those two have equivalent semantics. If you can get a result with one, you can get the same result with the other, it can just differ on how easy it is to program.

By the way, symbolic AI can learn too, you don't need to model things in code.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170430022841/http://wiki.c2.co...

I picked an arbitrary older date and it seems to be working for me (pre-redesign).
Impressive evolutionary history for your various keyboard and keyboard-focused tool preferences! Would like to know more.

Curious to know if you have any thoughts about the Eucalyn layout. It's a layout focused on Japanese, Vim, and Dvorak: https://eucalyn.hatenadiary.jp/entry/about-eucalyn-layout

Shameless plug, this is my Dvorak/Vim focused layout Small Board for Dvorak (SB4DV): https://github.com/1MachineElf/qmk_firmware/tree/_sb4dv/keyb...
Has the fundraising environment shifted such that Google/Microsoft can more easily purchase their competitors? I'd assume raising funds has gotten harder, and that that change will make a selling more appealing.
Hope Joseph Cox lands somewhere even more impactful.
It’s from the time when she was truly annoyed by this episode.
Frankly, I don't find it particularly useful - almost everything is written in such a way that you have to know what the page is about to be able to understand. It's more like a collection of links than a wiki proper.
But not a generous enough number of people to chat to all day to look productive.
Cohere LLM University
Yeah, current publicly known laws of physics.

Laws discovered by Man, who's imperfect and flawed and apt to be scared of what he doesn't know and think anything outside of that is impossible.

Also apt to greedily conceal that which would either give him advantage or make him look bad through ignorance or lack of control.

So...Galileo would like a word. :) ;p xx ;p
The context is that CS Lewis was a devout christian and evangelist, and is referring to spiritual desire.

I read "The Great Divorce", and interpreted it as metaphorical, in the "kingdom of heaven on earth" way. How honest work, faith, and openness are uplifting, vs getting trapped in psychological prisons.

But this quote refers to a literal afterlife. I don't know what to make of that.
I don't mind paying for news, but I don't want fucking ads if I'm paying.
What’s fascinating to me is that an entire generation of Americans in the early/mid-20th century adopted a fake British accent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent.
Our inference server (open source - releasing next week) has support for loading LLaMA and derivative models complete with 4-bit quantization, etc. I like Vicuna 13B myself :). Not to mention extremely fast and memory optimized Whisper via ctranslate2 and a bunch of our own tweaks.

Our inference server also supports long-lived sessions via WebRTC for transcription, etc applications ;).

You can chain speech to text -> LLM -> text to speech completely in the inference server and input/output through Willow, along with other APIs or whatever you want.
I prefer stability over optimal, especially in my development environment.

I use macOS with nix-darwin, so updating my applications is never very concerning - I can always just rollback if an update is bad. But macOS updates, while generally they don't break anything, have broken enough that it's the scariest part of my year.

The year they shut down any folders in the `/` directory was my (and many coworkers) downfall. It took me a solid 3-4 hours to recoup everything in a working order, and there were failing straggler scripts that were discovered months later.

As such I generally avoid updates as often as possible. Also, to be fair, I have a history in IT and while personal computer updates are generally good, infrastructure updates are time-consuming, error-prone, and generally scary, so I do have a default aversion.
Yes.

The media neighborhood shifted from UWS to Brooklyn maybe 10 years back, and so have all the media thought pieces.
DUH. The tech/software industry is literally destroying humanity, and will rot the mind of the current generation of children. Most kids wanna be youtubers or influencers. I'm quite frankly embarrassed to be part of it. I cringe when someone asks me what I do. I'd have more pride in digging holes at this point.

We were promised space travel to mars and flying cars, but instead we got hate filled and vain social media, political corruption and manipulation, and so, so much more.

Once shit like Neuralink becomes mainstream, we're going to see a whole ton of people just clock TF out.
But these are edge cases that are almost always irrelevant.

It's like running off into the weeds for a week in a computer science class because "Cosmic rays can flip bits and make true things false". Like sitting with a group of people who refuse to move forward without always acknowledging cosmic bit flip scenarios.
I got quite a few comments when I moved out to Alberta from Ontario. Not as much now, perhaps my accent has mellowed.
> i don't have to worry about being insecure with what I am talking about as it's just an AI

I’d be uncomfortable if there were a digital transcript of my conversations with my therapist stored in some company’s servers, but I get that talking to a machine would be easier than a person for some people/topics.
If the largest value prop of the industry (and historically crypto primitives) is that it is un-regulatable (and unregulated/get rich quick) the industry doesn’t get a free pass.
That's not what the article is about.

>But Gen Z has embraced bad imitations of Cockney slang or a Yorkshire dialect, using obviously fake, theatrical voices to make light of low-grade daily dramas.
Congratulations! This is great news!

I do not see anything posted on the Home Assistant (HA) Community forums.

> Configuring and building Willow for the ESP BOX is a multi-step process. We're working on improving that but for now...

This is crucial as your "competitors" are ready out of the box. I believe HA can be a Google/Alexa alternative to the masses only if the "out-of-the-box" experience is comparable to the commercial solutions.

Good luck, and keep us updated!
I think that the reason that many people don't put much effort into archiving information is a cultural one. Most people simply haven't given much thought to the question of fate of information or knowledge they happen to find, and the importance of preserving that knowledge for health of society's discourse.

What if we made archivism more fashionable?..
> I think Americans are just parroting pop culture from GB, and doing their best to sound, I dunno: posh or proper or whatever

That contradicts the article. They’re imitating the Essex and regional accents they hear on love island and x-factor and TikTok. Unlike previous generations that probably heard ‘posh’ or cockney accents, Gen-Z are more likely to have heard Millie-B rapping than Alan Rickman in a movie.
Smart phones give complete access to social media at literally every single waking hour. They are practically one and the same.
Yeah, what qualifies something to be a trend? Been in the US my entire life, and I've never heard someone casually putting on a fake British accent.
By that token, humans weren't meant to get medical procedures on chronical illnesses and live up to 100+ years.

What humans were meant to doesn't really help, and what long lasting impacts smart phone will have is pretty much up for debate.

My view on this is, we have natural defense + evolutionary mechanisms to deal with potential exctintion events. If you really want to look at the issue at such a basic level, tell me how the human race will be decimated via the arrival of smart phones.
There are probably things you could do to get more out of 3.5, but 4 is waaaaaay, way better for every complex thing I've tried. 3.5 was helpful on some margins when I remembered it, but 4 is a huge part of my workflows now.
I don't think kids will be outcast just because they don't own a smartphone. Based on what I can see around my own circle, most kids have 2 or 3 "close" friends with rest being mostly varied degrees of acquaintances. Those friendships usually start one-on-one - maybe there will be some sly smiles and minor jibes/comments about the phone situation initially but then like everything else, people take it into the stride and both parties adjust to the "difficulties" pretty quickly and figure out workarounds within the limitation (or they don't and the friendship doesn't carry forward). Eventually the close circle forms where everyone has come to terms with the rough edges of everyone else. Like that one friend in the circle who doesn't have a smartphone.

Also, providing "low-intensity" options like dumbphones just for messages/calling and laptops with age/time-restriction etc helps significantly.
Next morning's standup: "And then I got nothing done for the rest of the day while I fixed my development environment that was messed up by an update."
My family is amused when I criticize the physics in a movie when a bridge collapses in an unrealistic way. Apparently I don't have any issue with the talking dog that flies across the river and uses mental telepathy to form a giant wave that catches all the pieces of the fallen bridge and pushes them back into place to restore the bridge. No, my beef is with the poor grasp of physics because of how the bridge fell down.

Joseph Smith didn't discover gold plates. He was led to them by an angel sent by God. The question of whether a decendant of inhabitants of Jerusalem could have buried some modified Egyption writings in North America 1000+ years before Joseph was born... that question is kind of small when considering if there is a God and if any such God takes a direct interest in individual people.

FWIW, I happen to believe that there is a God and that God cares very much about you.

Now, about that bridge...
Most of the custodians work very hard to side step regulation and enable scams, albeit not necessarily openly on the second part, and are enabled by the on-chain primitives.

Pretty hard to avoid gov’t oversight/regulation when a USD Wire and ACH goes through the fed, for instance.

Easier when it goes through a blockchain which they can’t control.

Which is why a lot of exchanges (and all the sketchy ones) use things like Tether and stablecoins, and avoid US banks.
It would be a lot more convincing if they'd sent an undercover reporter who didn't in reality display a lot of ADHD symptoms.
Does wheat-based cereal count?
I thought Mid Atlantic was a completely fake accent taught to radio and movie actors because of better fidelity with the recording equipment of the day
The company can very well fire you if you do this, since DOL does not consider commute time from home to the designated/required work site to be working hours: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/workhours/traveltime
I don't have a rumen or an abomasum.

If you want to be large and strong, the science is irrefutable... eating meat is essential. Nothing substitutes.
I agree. People seem to largely be pretending it's not the case that GPT-4 significantly outperforms every other model right now.
Then one day Google tweaks their model in an unfortunate way and you fall all the way down that vertical.
> Also neither of your examples do any text shaping on the GPU.

Sorry, font rendering. I thought font shaping is part of it. Pathfinder and Lyon were libs.

> Do you not see at least some level of contradiction to these statements?

No? They are discussing Simd and generic interactions.
> the ESP BOX itself can recognize up to 400 commands directly on the device.

That's really cool! Does this mean 400 specific commands, e.g. "turn on the living room lights" or 400 commands that can be applied to different targets, e.g. "turn on the X lights" where X is some light. (400 actually feels like it would be enough to speed up the vast majority of interactions either way, but I'm curious :)
fingers crossed that they get traction but lets face it somehow the economics is stacked against these projects (there was also firefox OS which I once owned and ubuntu touch etc.)

after all the effort of the communities and companies involved, 0.1% adoption of something so differentating as an open source phone is "not normal"

even if you consider this delusional idealism we are not that few :-)
I've had a VPS since about 2013 or so and I think I haven't passed $180 yet. Of course it really depends on your usage loads, RAM usage, etc. But for small websites/apps there are cheaper alternatives.
Also a summary of our last few conversations and emails & texts, if it’s someone I know.

Heck, just give me a conversation script to follow.
I thought his Foghorn Leghorn impersonation was fantastic
Weird is in the eye of the beholder and most people suck and are dumb, so good on you.
The pronunciation is what it is. The orthography is the problem.

(Many words place names long pre-date any kind of attempt to regularize English spelling, and in any case come from fusions of Brythonic, Norman, Roman, Norwegian etc languages. This is why it's difficult to predict the pronunciation of one word from the spelling of another.)
4) Do you believe a "rogue super-intelligence" requires the "artificial" part?

Because from what I've seen, however you define "super intelligence", there are eg highly organised groups of people that are way closer to meeting that definition than any known software or technology.
It wasn't sait _without_ but with _reduced_ JS.

JS is fine for dynamic contents (likes, upvotes) but the rest of the page can be completely static...

Do you really need to see likes being updated in realtime? Or infinite scrolling (instead of sane pagination)?
If anything parents are as bad or worse than the kids now.

I'm about 40 and am constantly having to remind my own parents to put the phone away and be more present with their grandkids when they come to visit.
> People who are worried about alignment issues are worried about the danger unaligned AI poses to humanity; the harm which can be done by some super-intelligent system optimizing for the wrong outcome.

But isn't "alignment" in these cases more about providing answers aligned to a certain viewpoint (e.g. "politically correct" answers) than preventing any kind of AI catastrophe?

IIRC, one of these "aligned" models produced output saying it would rather let New York City be nuked than utter a racial slur. Maybe one of these "aligned" models will decide to kill all humans to finally stamp out racism once and for all (which shows the difference between this kind of alignment under discussion and the kind of alignment you're talking about).
I am hoping AI can become a voice of reason that uses the rules of logic to objectively discern truth and uncover fallacies.

An unbiased fact checker, if you will.

Of course, this won't stop humans from being ape-brain tribal bonobos, but it could help humans who want to evolve into humane, sentient beings in the vast gray wasteland of truth between black and white.
I'm not from Baltimore, but I watched the entire series and never thought he sounded off in any way. So it was good enough to fool me.

Daniel Craig sounding like Foghorn Leghorn, now that's another matter.
Every child needs guardrails before they are given extra, extra features. This article seems to stress that point. The title is just hype.

Lots of people are commenting here without reading the article.

Edit: the main line here is

> We cannot be certain that the correlations shown in the data are evidence of causality
Thousands will thrive. Startups have always been a Ponzi scheme.

The winners are the ones that grab funding now, achieve growth and sell quick to hand the bags to someone else.
Just to disentangle this a bit, GP's post was about Gemini and you're responding about Bard. The two are different things. Gemini hasn't been trained yet; it's the next-gen thing that's currently being worked on (Pichai mentioned it at I/O).

It obviously remains to be seen how good Gemini will be. I just wanted to clear up the apparent confusion.
This looks great! Any more details on the software and settings you used? Looks like it would be a perfect fit for my trusty old VAIO P.
I heard about the term "cognitive overload" a few years ago. Just google it if you want to; following the Wikipedia article about "Cognitive load" leads to two _very_ interesting articles:

* Social facilitation

* Drive theory

I think these two - in particular - describes in detail what you are describing. It's scary as hell, for sure; I have a 4-5 year old daughter myself, and I do _not_ want her to live with the expose of "what everything is about" before she is old enough to handle it.
no since the you would have to take in other factors that would affect that if an Amish person or one living oversees. For data like this you would have to quite literally clone these people , take away when they got a cellphone to be absolutely certain that getting a phone at the young age is the reason.
You should do it!

It's honestly so different than working as a SWE. I've really enjoyed the change in pace, and I think I've become more social since starting.

I totally think you should go for it. :)