skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can remember to do something tomorrow after doing many things in-between.

I can reason about something and then combine it with something I reasoned about at a different time.

I can learn new tasks.

I can pick a goal of my own choosing and then still be working towards it intermittently weeks later.

The examples we have now of GPT LLM cannot do these things. Doing those things may be a small change, or may not be tractable for these architectures to do at all... but it's probably in-between: hard but can be "tacked on."
I read through the whole LW post, and think there's enough troubling evidence here that she shouldn't be dismissed. It certainly shouldn't be flagged.

I initially was leaning to this being a high possibility of a delusion springing from a mentally unstable person, for all the reasons other commentators are mentioning. But, two things in particular struck me that changed my mind:

1. She apparently mentioned the abuse to her mother as a child.

2. She describes childhood behaviour consistent with someone who has experienced sexual abuse (i.e. thoughts of suicide, weird night behaviour like taking baths, body issues as she got older).

A small child doesn't have any incentive to make accusations, or to pretend to have been assaulted. If true, this should be taken seriously. Her mother is still alive, and there may be doctors, relatives or others that would be able to substantiate these points.

Finally, why has this post (and previous related posts) been repeatedly flagged? It's very troubling, I expect this from some HN users, but would have thought the HN moderators would have unflagged (or reposted) it upon consideration of the seriousness, importance of the subject matter, and undeniable relevance to the tech industry. At minimum, you would think someone would have unflagged them to avoid the appearance of bias and favorable treatment to the former YC president. At this point HN looks really sleazy.
The number of users using it doesn’t matter if they can’t attract advertisers.

Yahoo was one of the most trafficked sites for decades and couldn’t monetize their traffic.

And the average person is not using Twitter. There are only 350 million active users worldwide compared to 3 billion Facebook users. Even PInterest has more users

https://www.searchlogistics.com/learn/statistics/tiktok-user...

And Twitter will never be “the everything app” in the US. Apple and Google will never let it and the only reason that worked in other countries is a combination of path dependencies and phones in China are not running “Google Android” and Apple doesn’t have a choice but to be more lax about its App Store policies in China or users of the “everything apps” will revolt.
Depends which economy you're in. Australia domestic PV is a significant component of electricity supply with disruptive qualities.
Philips Ultra Definition line is quite good. Around $2-5 a bulb, come in a variety of wattages and styles, and they make a 2700k bulb that dims to 2000-2200k as it dims which mimics the incandescent dimming behavior. They’re also all 95CRI with decent R9 for the price.
Boy, if this is about Ilya being upset that Sam was in the spotlight or about revenue sharing of GPTs … well that’s strange. I would have expected more from such an influential company.

I hope that reporting is wrong.
The Mighty Mouse is almost the perfect mouse, IMHO. Its two flaws are 1) (as the sibling comment pointed out) how the scroll ball accumulates junk and is impossible to clean without cutting open the mouse and the implementation of the side buttons.

Having a first party Apple mouse with real middle click support is awesome. The multi direction scrolling has become a mandatory mouse feature for me. The size and weight are fantastic. For those that have used it, and don’t know, the nearly haptic tic while scrolling is an internal speaker which provides great feedback (especially when the rollers get stuck and the clicking stops so you known it’s time to clean the ball).

I find the Magic Mouse uncomfortable, it has no native middle click, no side buttons. Its best feature is that it fixed the scroll ball.

I finally broke down and bought a new, old stock Mighty Mouse a few months ago. The scroll ball feels so smooth.
These models can't even form new memories beyond the length of their context windows. It's impressive but it is clearly not AGI.
But those are just a subset of distributed computing which is itself a very large category of things. Even a single machine can be distributed computing the computation is distributed between multiple processes.
Context is very important in these kinds of use cases. If you work with something niche, I think these tools are less valuable because the training data becomes sparse.

For example, GPT-4 produces Javascript code far better than it produces Clojure code. Often, when it comes to Clojure, GPT-4 produces broken examples, contradictory explanations, or even circular reasoning.
Probably the wrong venue for this sentiment, but it is incredible that a principled, remarkably accomplished scientist was able to stop his creation from getting co-opted (for now anyway). If you listen to the No Priors interview with Sutskever, the contrast between him and Altman couldn’t be more clear, but it’s quite rare that the former ever wins out over the latter.
I think he'd say it's an arms race. With OpenAI not being open, they've started a new kind of arms race, literally.
It is a personal scandal and I thought it was obvious from the press release.

Prior to the Reddit comments, I thought this might be the case, but perhaps I was somehow influenced. Actually, I thought it would be something inappropriate in the workplace.

His sister says he molested her when he was a teenager.

The way these things break, I’m not surprised it went down that way. Here’s what I thought reading the release: “They had to fire him before deciding on what to actually say eg. to formally accuse him”

It seemed like signaling that this is someone firing him kinda desperately. When you discover a diddler theres some weird shit when people panic and suddenly drop catapult them out of their lives… they just start leaping out of moving cars and shit to get away.

Keep in mind there could be ongoing investigations, definitely strategies being formed. They can get to a point in an investigation where they’re virtually 100% he molested his sister, but can’t really prove it yet. What they do have is irrefutable evidence of lying about something incredibly serious. Gets him out of the building and powers stripped today.
And IKEA
Cycling anywhere near 20mph is beyond most peoples physical capabilities... with the small exception of steep downhills where the energy is "free" (at least compared with walking where you capture none of it) anyways.
I suppose OpenAI had two futures in front of it. It could devote its resources completely to building AGI or it could continue to split its resources to also commercialize its current LLM offerings.

Perhaps an internal struggle over those futures was made public by CEO Altman at dev day. By publicly announcing new commercial features he may have attempted to get his way by locking the company into a strategy that wasn’t yet approved by the board. He can argue his role as CEO gave him that right. The response to that claim is to remove him from that role.

It will be interesting to see what remains of OpenAI as employees and investors interested in pure commercialization exit the company.
It's still distributed and still running on someone else's computer. It's kinda the same thing. Just the evolution of it.

And your idling computers won't be idling anymore when they're running SETI@home. These days there a huge energy difference between idle and load. It just doesn't make sense anymore for people to contribute that way. And for institutions that need compute to set up the whole infrastructure, software toolchain, enduser support etc around making it possible. Better to just pay Amazon.
Calling them out publicly how? For not wanting to spend money on his platform after he endorsed an unambiguously anti-Semitic statement?

In response to a post that claimed Jewish communities support “hatred against whites,” Musk replied “You have said the actual truth.”

He is the one being called out. What’s he gonna say? That Apple hates South Africans?
Great. Now take "open" out of your name, because it's a lie.
Totally agree with both of you, I would only add that I find it also incredibly unlikely that the remaining board members are any different, as is suggested elsewhere in this thread.
Why would anybody in her position ever take the job? How’s she going to smooth things over between that board and Nadella, considering he put in $10bn and they ousted both the chairman and CEO without telling him?
One thing I can’t believe about Apple TV is that you can’t require a PIN for all apps but an allow-list—just for all apps. This, coupled with the fact that nothing other than first-party Apple apps respect the age rating settings makes the parental controls basically useless for anything but “lock everything”.
The comment definitely said that if your structure prevents from selling to the highest bidder your structure is whaky
it's extremely well documented.

Please share. Remember, prices are at the intersection of supply and demand, and moving one curve will inevitably affect the other.
US leadership in AGI race is under risk.
And not a single :require or outside library. Also, this pinball demo CLJS code seems to be being compiled directly within the browser. Want!

Let's go further. Imagine, a Clojure that directly produces WASM, without JS, without Google Closure. A Clojure that can target the browser and bring in NPM modules with alacrity, like shadow-cljs does today. This approximates the most forward-looking path for Clojure on web technologies I can think of at the moment.

Borkdude appears to have boundless energy. Just maybe, in the Clojure community, Borkdude is what comes after Chuck Norris memes. Does Borkdude ever sleep?
Exactly. Entire city blocks will be cleared for Sam. Anything he needs. Just give him a road.
He was removed from the board though. This isn't entirely voluntary and out of the blue.
If somebody has already proposed this, I apologize for non-dfs.

Plausibly there is a disagreement about the release of GPT-5. One side may believe it is competitively necessary (given Google’s impending release), countered by a concern regarding the model’s safety and lapses due to prematurity.

If we are to believe next-gen models are 10x as capable and natively multi-modal, their release is a precipice, and a winner-take-all vs. nth-order-risk debate may warrant decapitation.
>John

>I'm not patronizing you

(A)ssuming (G)ood (F)aith, referring to someone online by their name, even in an edge case where their username is their name, is considered patronizing as it is difficult to convey a tone via text medium that isn't perceived as a mockery/veiled threat.

This may be a US-internet thing; analogous to getting within striking distance with a raised voice can be a capital offense in the US, juxtaposed to being completely normal in some parts of the Middle East.
It’s not AGI. But I’m not convinced we need a single model that can reason to make super powerful general purpose AI. If you can have a model detect where it can’t reason and pass off tasks appropriately to better methods or domain specific models you can get very powerful results. OpenAI already on the path to doing this with GPT
I use number of dots to indicate length of the pause. A transcription of how I would have said it aloud. I think my maximum is 4.
> Imagine you worked at OpenAI and you just found out that your shares could have been worth a tremendous amount and now their future is, at best, uncertain.

Would any of this have been a surprise given all that you've detailed above? What would they have honestly been expecting?

Going the other way.. imagine you worked at a company that put ideals first but then you find out they were just blindly hyping that lie so they could vault themselves into the billionaires club by selling your shared ideals out from underneath you? To, of all players, Microsoft.

> when you have the (perhaps) the most valuable product in the world.

Maybe the people who work there are a little more grounded than this? Viewed through this lens, perhaps it's extremely ungenerous to refer to any of them as "looney tunes."
In context, his point was that a permanent military industrial complex would be necessary [0] due to the changing nature of technology and war, but that we must remain vigilant to not allow public policy to be captured by those interests.

People generally disregard the first part when they quote him on the "military industrial complex".

[0] Because the era where the US could remain safely protected by the two oceans was ending due to the development of missile technology, and because the complexity of military equipment had gone beyond what a civilian company could be expected to produce with a few years of factory retooling as in WWII.

If a military was not ready to fight on day 1, if you were starting from a heavily disadvantageous position, you may never have the opportunity to catch up. The weapons technologies on the horizon would allow shipyards and advanced manufacturing facilities to be destroyed by an enemy thousands of miles away. That means you would need to have enough tanks, ships and so forth to put up a fight immediately, rather than waiting a few years, and they would need to be continually modernized. Therefore those industries would need to be kept around permanently, but subservient to the public interest.
Coincidentally, that reads like the LinkedIn of some of the most utterly clueless, dishonest, resume padding colleagues I've worked with. Not saying that's what's going on here, though I'd urge caution with taking statements like this at face value.
This is because software engineers never actually use devices that have parental controls enabled. Most parents either don’t enable the controls, or never use devices while those controls are active. It’s a user experience that is not tested in real world conditions very much.

And the people that do experience it, children, obviously don’t want it enabled whether it works or not. They’re not going to go reporting bugs, lol! What parents consider bugs are actually features for the children.

Only the kind of adult that wrote this blog post actually uses devices that have parental controls enabled, and sees how they actually work.

The author suggests that companies should make their parental controls work to stave off government regulation. I think there’s actually a midway solution.

I don’t want to see a government put its hand on the wheel and do the controls themselves. Instead, the government should regulate the companies and use the force of law to get them to make their parental controls work. Create a standard for parental control features that must be offered, tested, and working. If a platform doesn’t have the controls available that actually work, then you can’t sell it.

If a government tells Apple it can’t sell iPhones until it fixes these problems with screen time, or that Nintendo can’t sell switches until it fixes their issues, then you can be damn sure they’ll be fixed within the week.
no, I was replying to a comment that said it was a power struggle in which the board needed to act quickly before they lost power.

The board may very well have met for this very reason, or perhaps it was at this meeting that the lack of candor was found or discussed, but to hold a board meeting there is overhead, and if the board is already in agreement at the meeting, they vote.

It only seems sudden to outsiders, and that suddenness does not mean a "night of the long knives".
Not really. Many of those do not have other verb forms that mean the same thing.
Palmer had some ridiculous perspectives. Don’t put that pos in the same bucket as Sam.
The idea is to use scoped time-limited authentication tokens for any such services.
A lot of the first set of points seem to be a result of Microsoft's self-sabotaging. I'm not going to pretend any Linux-based OS has any support for parental controls, but especially the points about the news feed and search didn't used to be an issue back in the days of like XP.
> Cant be a personal scandal

And Brockman (Chairman of the board) has resigned.

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559
Sam is not an engineer. He can't do it without Ilya or Ilya-lite. And there are like 4 of those in the world.
AI will decide our fate in a microsecond.
If it wasn't abrupt, why did they release this news BEFORE the stock markets closed, instead of after?
> I'm not sure if this journalist is to be fully believed.

"This journalist" is Kara Swisher, probably the most prominent tech journalist since the dot com boom. She's known for her deep knowledge of the silicon valley tech world, her sharp commentary, and not letting charismatic executives get away with bobbing and weaving around tough questions in her interviews.

I don't really enjoy her writing or interviews because she's so willing to take the conversations to uncomfortable places, but sometimes that's what's required to cut through all the bullshit and dig up the truth.

She's a good journalist, and I'd be quite surprised if she didn't verify this information from more than one quality source before tweeting about it.
Yann LeCunn is a strong counter to the doomerism as one example. Jeremy Howard is another example. There are plenty of high profile, and distinguished researchers who don't buy into that line of thinking. None of them are eschewing safety taking into account the realities of how the technology can be used, but they aren't running the AI will kill us all line up the flagpole.
True. She's the only person in the executive team that didn't come into OpenAI with pre-existing clout. They appointed her CTO with only a few years of engineering experience and now CEO. She must be a phenomenon.
It can. The trouble with Minecraft is that it phones home to a dozen IPV6 addresses every time it launches, and it practically never contacts the same one twice. Makes it impractical to apply allow-only address access to the Internet and still allow Minecraft. I’ve not manage to find any kind of list from MS of addresses to allow to stop the insanity. I hate whoever made this happen.
Ahh, so that's why he cut off signups after Dev Day.
Is this like Star Trek where the mission automatically ends if you lose enough of the bridge crew?
It's rapidly turning into science fact, unless you've been living under a rock the last year.
If Tom Cruise at 61 can ride a motorcycle off a cliff six times, Van Damme at 63 can surely still do a split between two trucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lsFs2615gw
Does this work for Android? I'd be interested but we have only Android and desktop Linux devices
Retrofitting such things into Starship sounds difficult.
Who in the world could Anxious_Bandicoot126 be???

"The board and myself were lied to one too many times."
I don't think that specific knowledge means that much. The landscape is changing in a crazily fast pace. 3~4 years ago, Google was way ahead in terms of LLM but has become an underdog after bleeding talents thereafter. It's even worse for that hypothetical new company. It needs at least several months to implement GPT-4 like models and by that time Sam will lose most of his advantages at that moment. And we don't know whether the new company will have enough pool of world class talents to push the technology competitive. To win the competition again, Sam would need more than just some internal knowledge about GPT-4 or whatever models.
I fully agree. And yet you see people (above in this thread, even) who defend illiteracy with the old "you're just a grammar nazi; language is a 'living entity'" trope.
Anytime I hear someone even hypothesizing with a tin foil hat that some company has developed AGI today in 2023, I hear it the same way I hear someone speculating about UFOs. It's so absurd that all I can do is shake my head and look around the room hoping to make eye contact with someone sane who is wearing the same expression of raised eyebrows that I am.

I could write an essay on why the existence of AGI in 2023 is a comical prospect, but it just seems to be a given to me... It isn't worth the effort because if someone can't see that for themselves already, no amount of explanation from me is going to change their mind.

But in one sentence, try asking ChatGPT to reverse a string of 20+ digits, like 473936482738338373926. It can't do it. It's a super trivial task, but it can't do it. Because it doesn't really understand anything. It's just an incredibly advanced Markov chain. It isn't a mind. It can't reason. They are no closer to AGI than we were 10 years ago. Chatgpt's text generation capabilities have fooled people into thinking that OpenAI has made substantial progress on creating a reasoning consciousness. But it hasn't. It hasn't at all. And it's so easy to realize that if you interact with the thing.
Huh? Can you explain the difference?

That’s like saying “Oh, you didn’t get the right answer to that math question, you just mimicked giving me the right answer”. Yeah, but if I gave you the right answer, then I gave you the right answer, and I must’ve gotten it somehow.
The operations of the for-profit are subservient to those of the non-profit; the board of the non-profit controls all operations of the for-profit. They're not an "umbrella company" - while technically they are two different organizations run by the same board, one is controlled by the goals of the other. See https://openai.com/our-structure.
These are both great. The original RotP is no longer being actively developed, but there are a couple of forks on GitHub that stay in sync with one another and have continued building on the base.

https://github.com/BrokenRegistry/Rotp-Fusion

https://github.com/Xilmi/Rotp-Fusion
Yea, I've tried a lot of different types of mice. The Logitech MX Vertical mouse has been the best for me so far. For split keyboard, I was using Microsoft Sculpt but after having my second one break, I decided to go up market to the ergodox ez. I think it's worth it but it is harder to get adjusted to.
You're describing Theranos.
"CEO of a < 50 person company"
It can only be attributable to human error.
That is what Ilya Sutskever and the board of the non-profit have effectively accused Sam Altman of in firing him, yes.
The growing list of companies pulling ads from X
Maybe some promise was made by Sam to MS for the funding that the board didn't approve. He may have expected the board to accept the terms he agreed to but they fired him instead.
Sometimes smart people make stupid decisions. It’s really that simple.

A young guy who is suddenly very rich, possibly powerful, and talking to the most powerful government on the planet on national TV? And people are surprised to hear this person might have let it go a little bit to their head, forget what their job was, and suddenly think THEY were OpenAI, not all the people who worked there? And comes to learn reality the hard way.

What’s to be surprised about? It’s the goddamned most stereotypically human, utterly unsurprising thing about this and it happens all. the. time.

A lot of people here really struggle with the idea that smart people are not inherently special and that being smart doesn’t magically absolve you from making mistakes or acting like a shithead.
lol https://imgur.com/a/3QVdbz0
How to read NPM dependency-conflict errors
First: That's not what a strawman is. Second: If the relevance isn't clear, I leave it to you to suggest a better example.
Rivals over anything in particular, or just status?