skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please stop. These discussions never lead anywhere, and all they reveal in the end is that $SOME_AI_PROJECT doesn't meet $YOUR_IDIOSYNCRATIC_DEFINITION_OF_AI.

For the n'thousandth time: AI does not (necessarily) mean "perfect fidelity with human intelligence". It's many things including a field of research, a body of knowledge, a suite of technologies that display behavior which could be classified as "intelligent" in some sense, and an aspiration, among others. Current "AI" systems absolutely fall under this rubric, even if they aren't functionally equivalent to human intelligence.

Never mind that we don't know for sure that human intelligence doesn't ultimately reduce to "just pattern matching" at some level. And never mind the "AI Effect"[1] where the public at large quits considering anything "AI" once it works. Usually by saying things like "it's just computation" or "it's just pattern matching." :-)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
People need to understand policy making is not some binary battle between 'billionaires and commoners'.
Let me give you the context behind this decision.

1. Japan is horrifically behind in software engineering compared to its neighbours, especially China. This is because of a culture that undervalues software engineers (Who don't tend to thrive in a lifetime employment/de-facto unionised environment)

2. This has started to lead into an existential threat to its entertainment industry. Genshin Impact is the most successful anime-styled game in existence (including in Japan), yet it is made by China. Why? Because China could get top tier students to work on the games, making a mobile game on a technical level that is impossible to match by Japan.

3. Now AI is out, and China is behind US, but still far ahead of Japan. Japan has two choices:

A: Let Chinese companies train their models on all of Japan's cultural outputs (All of anime/manga). Then those companies will both use the models to produce output, and sell the models back to Japanese companies. Making Japan lose by every definition. Most of the top SD anime finetunes are made by Chinese enthusiasts. So this is not a prediction, its already a reality.

B: Go all in on pro-AI policies. Giving Japanese companies legal certainty to start training their own large models. Japanese artists will still suffer losses, but at least the profits stay in Japan.

I should note Japan's artists are also not losing out that much. Anime, despite being extremely popular, is currently in complete production collapse, with even flagship shows having regular unscheduled 'breaks' because of production chaos. This collapse is because of lack of low level animators, who are so poorly paid that no one is joining the profession, and is generally outsourced anyways. AI isn't killing well paid jobs, it is replacing an already unviable job. Japan will still dominate in the higher tiers of production, and won't even need to outsource anything anymore.
why not harvest it with ships?
I don't think that's true, I'm a software engineer and I am wiling to admit that GPT-4 is useful for generating/refactoring code. If only I was allowed to use it for work :(

It is not useful for working with maths proofs, except maybe if you are bad a latex.
I wonder if you could make an "SSH Key" for AI prompts you submit/authorized-responses such that you can confirm identity and not be impostered
Half the world believes in a man in the sky..
It's undergone some minor changes since this post, but mostly like this: https://mastodon.social/@ethanschoonover/110085453365962807
Musk is a great example of how social media rots your brain.

I know people have been saying this ever since books were invented... But Twitter and such are really different. They are literally designed and trained to suck you in at any cost.

Note: I don't mean that he is very Republican, but that his character (seemingly) drastically changed from being in the Twitter echo chamber. He blurts out self harmful, objectively incorrect things without taking two minutes to consider them, almost like he can't help himself, as the CEO and owner of Twitter.
So am I wrong to deduce from recent news that basically they’re just raising rates until consumers cry uncle and THAT makes prices go down?
I dunno, these recent headlines are implying a huge market failure, because like you know… shouldn’t competition do it’s magic? Is there so much oligopoly pricing that this is happening? And if so, shouldn’t that be addressed directly?
I’m not at all ashamed to say I do not understand the economy post COVID.
I really like libreddit. It was very easy for me to set up and host my own instance behind a VPN. I registered a very simple .com domain of repeating letters so I can quickly just double-tap the word "reddit" on my phone's address bar and replace the word "reddit" with my libreddit's domain name and tap "go".

No more trying to type "old" over "www" or fight the "you must use the app"
> What if you overfit your model to the point of exact reproduction? Or anything in between that and what you consider inventive. Where is the line drawn.

The line is the same as it always has been. If you as a human publish this work then you have to respect copyright. If it is an exact replica then it likely violates copyright regardless of whether or not it was produced using AI, by copying pixels or by human hand. The test is the same regardless of how it was created.
Superhero costume using logo. Logo inspired by the strongest gem's typical cut with first a monogram the first letter of the name for maximum size and visual clarity.

Literally if you asked someone for a recognizable outline of the strongest gemstone's iconic cut you'd get the outline and the rest is an obvious path. Humans might unconsciously, or even by choice, avoid something too similar to something they already know.

Superman's costume also uses vibrant colors. The red / blue pairing is used extensively across many logos and visual representations for the high contrast of two vibrant colors.

As I try to imagine an older child or young adult somehow raised in an environment like pop culture but through some twist absolutely unexposed to Superman or any related concepts, it isn't that far of a stretch to imagine independent invention of a strikingly similar idea. Maybe not as a first draft but in exploring a range of possible powers and automatic logos. E.G. as in the range of an LLM backed character creator for a superhero game, and then aneling the results though simulated effectiveness / fitness of hero powers, logo design, etc.

Everyone wants to think they're a special snowflake and that what they create is somehow unique as well. However we're all drawing on a huge pool of common culture to synthesize expressions which fulfill a set of constraints prescribed by the culture and the culture's influence on the individual and the moment being experienced.

In the case of Superman that's even arguably a description of the archetype. They are literally a super man. Clark Kent however, that's a little more unique and probably a Trade Mark (consumer commercial use protection) as long as such a registration is maintained.
I came late to The Residents, and haven't done their discography, although I've seen and love the "Theory of Obscurity" doco that porcoda mentioned.

What I know of The Residents and their genius is probably best summed up by their Gingerbread Man song / film clip. It's unbelivably haunting if you let it in:

https://youtu.be/hr-I6-gxecg

"everybody feeds the fat boy"

Indeed.

Let the rabbit hole take you.
Isn't this the same loophole that MegaUpload used? Only removing a link to a file, not the file itself with the claim that other links belonged to potentially lawful owners of the file.
That doesn't really have any relevance, though. Every single possibility is as likely as the others, it's just there are many more situations in which a system will look "normal", but we still shouldn't be overly surprised by the occasional outlier, we're bound to stumble on them even if rarely.
The https://github.com/OAI/ Github group name is indeed deceptive.
There's free API access with a client of your own. You just can't distribute a single client that intermediates the site: thereby not being a user agent so much as its own site. If you use your own client_id and OAuth2, you get 100 req/min which is enough to browse.
? No, it's not.

If you show "uneducated" people wild stuff, they will give even wilder recounts of that experience. That doesn't make the event unreal.

Religious or "esoteric" explanations are simply representations in a pre-scientific world view. That doesn't necessarily render the events represented "unscientific" (which people equate to "unreal").
Jupytext provides a system for version controlling notebooks, code reviewing them, and using them in the context of a larger Python project, without imposing any constraints on the larger project, because Jupytext saves notebooks as plain .py files.

I ended up choosing Jupytext for a personal project because it seemed less complex than nbdev. (I never made it through the 90 minute nbdev introductory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7zS8Ld4_iA).

Are there advantages of nbdev over Jupytext that I'm missing out on?
This is a selling point of Discord. The ability to have a conversation without "researchers" being able to search for it for decades.
+1 to that

I didn't take pictures I was proud of before going to protests to take pictures of people there, and trying to frame them as "badass" as possible.

Now I mostly shoot animals and landscapes, but I've been doing it for years at every oportunity I get, so my "gut feel" is strong there. I'm not great at portraits, for example, and have 0 interest in street shooting.
Yeah, this is the equivalent of a freelancer quoting an absurd price for a job they don’t want.
I don’t think the tool by which a derivative work is created matters. The author should not distribute, remix, re-work, adapt, release, perform or synchronise it if they do not have the rights. This is already the case for all other technologies and tools.

For example, if you rewrite a popular book in a word processor from scratch, it is not the responsibility of your word processor to not let you do it. Or the government to regulate word processors so that they are incapable of doing it. It is your responsibility to not distribute what you made.

If you record your screen watching a movie and distribute it, the accountability for this falls on you, not the tool made for screen recording.

And if you use generative AI to produce trademarked or copyrighted works, you should be accountable, not AI.

Generative AI will always be able to produce copyrighted works if steered enough. Even if it wasn’t trained directly on them. A very simple experiment proves it - you can paste copyrighted material into a ChatGPT prompt and ask it to repeat it. Or you can describe a copyrighted work really well for MidJourney and it will produce results with high likeness. This does not require that the models be trained on copyrighted works.

Besides, copyright infringement isn’t nearly the worst crime AI can be used in. Serious impersonation, forgeries and fraud are also made easier with AI. Why is copyright different?

It should all be treated the same - the user should be held accountable for their actions. Not the tool or the tool’s makers.
1) hits home. The lack of a proper AST, "logicless" Mustache templates for code generation, lack of tests,... Also, OpenAPI seems to allow features in the language before at least a handfull of first class code generators have support for that feature, just because one generator supports it. And not that the others refuse, they just produce broken code
Training a model isn’t making a copy for your own use, it’s not making a copy at all. It’s converting the original media into a statistical aggregate combined with a lot of other stuff. There’s no copy of the original, even if it’s able to produce a similar product to the original. That’s the specific thing - the aggregation and the lack of direct reproduction in any form is fundamentally not reproducing or copying the material. The fact it can be induced to produce copyright material, as you can induce a Xerox to reproduce copyright material, doesn’t make the original model or its training a violation of copyright. If it’s sole purpose was reproduction and distribution of the material or if it carried a copy of the original around and produced it on demand, that would be a different story. But it’s not doing any of that, not even remotely. All this said, it’s a highly dynamic area - it depends on the local law, the media and medium, and the question hasn’t been fully explored. I’m wagering though when it comes down to it, the model isn’t violating copyright for these reasons, but you can certainly violate copyrights using a model.
It will be impossible to regulate and impossible to stop.

The code for AGI will not be some monolith of software architecture. The code will likely be simple. This means that someone in their basement could build it. The steps to get there are challenging, though. A single person could have developed the transformer architecture. A single person could have used 4-bit quantization and developed an AI that is just as good as ChatGPT and have it run on their local machine.

The difficulties are figuring out the best 'needle in the haystack' to solve the problem. This requires research, and this process happens much faster if you have more people working on it. For years, many people did not put any energy into AI systems because the hardware was not here yet. The hardware is here now. The cat is out of the bag.
Please stop trying to make lemmy.ml happen. There is so much spam for this website, and it's marginally better.
I feel like the better pricing strategy would be something similar to what the geospatial API platforms like Google Maps do, with their explicit no-caching or time-limited-caching clauses. E.g. you're actually prohibited from retaining results from say a geocode beyond 30 days IIRC.

Amazon made this explicit with their Geospatial API pricing ( https://aws.amazon.com/location/pricing/ - "Places" tab) - where the pricing for being able to store a result is 8x higher.
I don't know, except that I agree that it's horribly mixed. It's almost impossible to make out what people are saying in certain parts, and that causes cognitive load that degrades the experience. Also, the story is completely nonsensical. The only good thing about that movie is that time-reversed fight scene and even that was kind of questionable.
Project Veritas sues its founder James O'Keefe
Much of it seems to be people's behavior changing, rather than the company changing.

Reddit has subreddits on the right and left that will ban you for disagreeing, or even for having made a comment in a subreddit they don't like. That was theoretically always possible, but at some point people decided such a policy was a good idea.

I personally think a misstep of reddit's has been relying so much on volunteer moderators. Why are people willing to put in so many unpaid hours of labor? Apparently, the answer is sometimes because they have a political cause they want to promote.
Half the world isn't reporting UFO sightings, only 2%-5% of 50-100 (which is 1-5) monthly are considered "possibly really anomalous" (per the article).

Now if you think 1-5 monthly is "too many" to be considered "crazy" people, I've got some bad news...
Yes it does. A certain group of people definitely drags the entire field down. It’s not a nice thing to think about but it’s a fact and the reality IMO. You can continue to lie to yourself but eventually you realize that you need to dumb things down for the below 2 std deviation folks or you won’t get them as users.
Of course some notes you write down become outdated (as author mentions), but other ideas you write down are almost timeless.

I'd be screwed without Notes. It's a repository of so many abstract thoughts that I have no place thinking about all day. There's simply too much going on.

Having things written down in shorthand like a prompt is so handy when I have some time to go back and browse the gallery of good and bad ideas.
In this specific context, this phenomenon is so common that it literally has the name "The AI Effect".[1]

Author Pamela McCorduck writes: "It's part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something—play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems—there was a chorus of critics to say, 'that's not thinking'." Researcher Rodney Brooks complains: "Every time we figure out a piece of it, it stops being magical; we say, 'Oh, that's just a computation.'"

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
Moving parts are less of an issue if you could build it into a Docker container.
While I have many thoughts about OpenAPI's ease-of-use and readability, I'm going to focus my commentary on the proposal at hand.

1. "The primary goal of this proposal for a major new version of OpenAPI is to make it more approachable in order."
-> This is a sound objective. I'm glad to see less nested structures that will improve readability. It'll make it easier to scroll the JSON/YAML and follow the logic.

2. "OpenAPI has become the defacto standard for API descriptions."
-> With OpenAI's choice to pick OpenAPI as the standard for ChatGPT plugins, this is more true than ever. It's great to see that now giving names to responses will make it easier for AIs (i.e., ChatGPT, Copilot) to call an API more accurately.

3. No mention of improving the quality of codegen (e.g., client libs, server stubs). Surprised that Moonwalk is silent on this topic.
Parity will arrive because ICE vehicles will get more expensive. I'd be very surprised if manufacturers would give up any of that addictive profit.
I don't know unity's model. I call Falcon sleazy because the royalty stuff (plus a bunch of absurd related terms) were buried in the license while the headline said open source. I'm not against commercial products, nor products with free and premium tiers. This otoh felt, like I say, just sleazy.
Very different languages with different goals
> Germany has had a constitutional restriction in place explicitly prohibiting an SSN equivalent.

Very interesting! Thank you for this
MacSkate
I don't think a single worse example has occurred since, even though there have been other high profile instances of falsifying data and other unethical conduct.

I think after the replication crisis the scientific community is more aware of the limitations and faults of the current system. This has impacted different fields in different ways, to varying degrees of improvements. Now, I think a lab like Hwang's would be meet with more skepticism from both readers and the top tier journals.

The biggest cause for skepticism now would be Hwang's claimed success rate with the techniques. If other labs couldn't reach similar levels of success then the most generous assumption would be that the techniques weren't described well enough in the articles. Compare this to CRISPR gene editing, which is a slightly more modern advancement in genetics that is valued because of how easily other labs can incorporate it.
Nope, you don’t understand. You make apps for macOS. I understand that there is risk there. I’m not one of those people who go around telling you it’s your fault when Apple pulls the plug on you, because you understand the risk you operate in and I think it’s fine for people to do this.

Now, if you paraded around telling people you trust Apple and that they would never hurt you in any way, and that you had conversations with their management and they want you to succeed, now we have a problem.
yes we pivoted to AI never been happier
Meta's eventual, internal LLM architecture will be totally different than the open source LLMs, right? They don’t need to run on commodity hardware.

Maybe I am cynical, but I dont see the incentive for Meta to contribute an open model.
You can opt out of the safety filtering, btw.
Someone at Reddit has since restored the linked post[0]. I think the content is unchanged, but it may have been subtly edited while it was "[removed]".

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_upda...
No, it's also the AI. There are two broad categories of horrible outcomes:

1. Bad people control and use AI to dominate/destroy the world

2. An AI is created which resists human control entirely, and it decides to take an action that doesn't bode well for us. It is a fundamentally inscrutable mind to us, so we don't know what action it will take or why.
I use Sync Pro on Android and Apollo on iPad. I'm expected to pay twice?

This is so stupid.
Tbf Discord forums are so catastrophically badly designed in terms of UI that they're pretty much unusable.

Ultimately if you want good discussion you need the same layout that Reddit and HN have, with indented comments and easily branching chains. Otherwise it's just a chat masquerading as a forum thread which is useless.
Are they faster more productive ways though? You're still operating off keywords. It combines the mechanical effort of tags, with the mental upkeep required to remember which notes can be linked. Not great.

I do agree everyone has a different workflow, but also you're a really good example of why the productivity is so massive despite the very little improvement to productivity brought on by these additional services: everyone is so desperately trying to convince themselves a better workflow is right around the corner. That someone else has a superior workflow, you just have to use that new app or service. Repeat every time a new gimmick comes out.
CTO of Modern Treasury here. We're very happy with the quality of the client libraries being generated by Stainless. It also integrates nicely into our workflow, we've got the releases almost fully automated whenever new API routes are added or changed.
Reddit itself was bootstrapped with that.
I changed the user agent of the Mac Safari to be that of iOS, and changed the window size to be in portrait, yet it still does knows it’s not a mobile device. How does it know?
probably brain do something way more complex than pattern match.

I could agree with this statement if it were rephrased to begin "possibly brain do..."

I'm curious... aside from human chauvinism, do we have any particular reason to believe that it's "probable" (as opposed to merely "possible") that brains require something beyond pattern matching at the lowest level?
The RustConf Keynote Fiasco, explained
Well if its Apache 2.0 now, can't you clone it as-is and have it be open "forever?"
Plenty of disturbing stories here.

But let's remember that the alternative is often pregnancy, and that the risk, pain and ongoing implications associated with pregnancy and childbirth are much much higher than vasectomies.

Take responsibility folks.
I feel like this line in the Moonwalk proposal was written for you! "Deep nesting can become unnecessarily cumbersome for reading and writing OpenAPI descriptions."
I was recommended the v2 for hobbyist use, but now I'm glad I waited!
The failure mode is that only long context tasks benefit, short ones work fast enough with full attention, and better. It's amazing that OpenAI never used them in any serious LLM even though training costs are huge.