skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Arguably if you have Windows licensing, Hyper-V will do mostly all the same stuff "for free", but only if you want your hypervisors to be exactly as reliable as Windows machines. If you're rolling VMware, your datacenter's backbone tends to be ridiculously solid.

Think servers with four digits of days of uptime, in terms of things you probably shouldn't do, but absolutely can.
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I agree with you there, that's a good point too. But it doesn't mean that we can't have a disaster from AGI, too. Hahaha! :) So many disasters, how to keep track of it. Easier not to think I guess. I'm going to go back to programming my remote browser, it's a lot simpler than trying to think of the fate of the world. Hahahah! :)

Corporations have been acting in this capacity (making massive changes to the ecosystem, human lives, etc) just fine. The corporate "organisms" have caused humans to erect massive projects to shave a few milliseconds from HFT, for example. AI-based decision support tools will just make that process more efficient.

I like your thinking man, I want to hear more of it. Where can I read your blog? When I have time, away from saving the world of course. Hahaha! :)
Yes and no.

The point isn't that the current models are dangerous. My favorite bit from the GPT-4 safety paper was when they asked it how to kill the most people for a dollar and it suggested buying a lottery ticket (I also wonder how much of the 'safety' concerns of current models are just mislabeling dark humor reflecting things like Reddit).

But the point is to invest in working on safety now while it is so much more inconsequential.

And of everyone I've seen talk about it, I actually think Ilya has one of the better senses of the topic, looking at alignment in terms of long term strategy vs short term rules.

So it's less "if we don't spend 8 months on safety alignment this new model will kill us all" and more "if we don't spend 8 months working on safety alignment for this current model we'll be unprepared to work on safety alignment when there really is a model that can kill us all."

Especially because best practices for safety alignment is almost certainly going to shift with each new generation of models.

So it's mostly using the runway available to test things out and work on a topic before it is needed.
Wasn't this supposed to happen when PCs came out?
What if Breaking Bad was ended in season 4?
I'm watching Breaking Bad again after about ten years.

And I'm wondering... What if it all ended in season 4?

The final episode is 4-13. With Gus finished. Mr White and Jesse as friends/partners.

Walter White live and safe.

Thoughts?
Fair enough, I get what you mean.
To clarify some, "best" in “Roy Sullivan is the best in the world at being struck by lightning” is subjective.

Who cares that he got hit three times? Okay, he was hit the most times. That is a fact. I saw a video of a guy getting hit and he did it with grace and elegance - I think hes the best at getting hit. How is "something is best" ever a fact?
I really loved to drive a bus around the map, listening to K-DST.
PG doesn’t say he’s fit for the job, he just says he’s good at some unspecified thing.

Maybe that unspecified thing is just corporate knife fighting and this time PG is happy he’s not on the other end of it.
A lot of this kind of reasoning is very visual to me and involves no inner monologue of any kind - just visualizations flying around in my brain in complete silence. The translation into words happens later as a separate step. I wonder if this is not a universal experience.
>It seems like you can't continue with the same mission if you're taking billions from public companies which have investors who are very much interested in profit.

Why not? Public companies contribute to charities all the time.
Which bugs are you referring to? Every runtime has bugs in the issue tracker; you'll have to be more specific than that.
My problem with the pixel, and the only reason I returned it, is the modem. The chip was fine, I don't care that it's "underpowered", but when reception got spotty it chugged power. Google made an excellent SMARTphone, but they seem to have forgotten it's also supposed to be a smartPHONE and it can't always be on wifi where it will stay cool and efficient.
I prefer that one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghDlYgvod9k
Who is "we"? Torturing people to death in equally horrific ways is still routine practice among radical Islamists and Mexican drug cartels, among others.
I just want decent on-device voice recognition for things like asking the Assistant to send text messages. So tired of having to repeat myself 5 times.
Interesting. Do you have any specific program heads-up about this? I'm curious to read more. :)
WebGPU is a pretty good starting point, that's what I did myself (with C++, not Rust though, which should be even more straightforward). You can even use it in the browser and skip all the native hassle.

Just learn the basic concepts like buffers, drawing, texture, light, perspective etc. from https://learnopengl.com/ then you can jump into WebGPU. Even though there's not that many WebGPU tutorial, applying the OpenGL tutorials to it is pretty straightforward once you understand the fundamentals.
Same guy claimed to have invented Facebook. (Or some of its features? Wiki's a bit unclear.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/01/technology/01facebook.htm...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210121084819/https://gawker.co...

There was some kind of settlement eventually:

https://about.fb.com/news/2009/05/facebook-and-think-compute...
Exactly. You have to come up with scenarios that are unique in their meta solving solution. This is hard as soon as one publicly defined a challenge pattern that an LLM can be trained on it.
This statement is now about 70 years old.
I was refering to the book before I realized it was also a serie of articles.

There were a few stories about the involvment of the company in tobacco, the opioid crisis, and some geopolitical stories that made it quite a bit more than just something about a liberal POV.
I don’t fear AI, I fear capitalism.
Right, but the penalty for non compliance here is a $20/day fine. No where does the law state that you're granted license to enter the building if they refuse you entry or deny your request. You made your request, they refused and asked you to leave. Your only valid recourse here is to file a complaint with the IRS and let them do their thing. Alternatively return after the holiday break when the office has the staff there that can fulfill your request.
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Ugh, this is why the word "Capitalism" is so increasingly useless.

There is "commerce," a thing that, like it or not, we're probably going to be doing for some time and is overwhelmingly likely inherently neutral.

Then there's something else, which is definitely bad, but needs clearer definitions.
Btw, if you know and love that legendary track, here is a making-of video, by Franky Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otckQ0zXmbM&t=990s
Did you read the comment I replied to? Come on, I know you can read that and are capable of simple comprehension.

Pray tell how do you counter an all or nothing assertion?

Such idiotic comments don't deserve nuance.

Also, pro-tip: Just shouting "fallacy", doesn't mean it is.
VMware is literally taught in schools. My college has a two course program in it.
I think that by that same logic, you could say human artists, writers, etc. don't create either, they just move existing matter (which typically isn't created nor destroyed) from one place to another. You could also say an electric company doesn't generate electricity but merely converts other energy into it -- one of the most popular uses of the word "generator" yet the atoms/energy are already here; we just arrange/convert and call it generation. I must insist that sorting some things a certain way is widely known as generation/creation.

I can see how other words are a bit more precise, though. Synthesize, perhaps?
GPT-4 is also a lot better than Minerva.

I guess it depends on the size and what kind/quantity of data they fed it.
> about whatever you want

Almost. Nor VPN, nor Tor are sufficient to protect you against NSA with global traffic view.
What a truly arbitrary comment. This is a conversation that is clearly about Google. What possible value did you think you added with what you wrote here.
AI in itself does not pose any threats (yet). The "safety" concern here is always about how humans would (mis)use it.
It's just way too convenient from a marketing standpoint for me to take seriously at face value. It would be pretty easy to get someone to "leak" that they developed "AGI" to the media right now in the middle of the leadership shakeup frenzy. Not to mention that none of the LLMs I've used appear anywhere close to what I would consider AGI. Expect an incremental update.
Consider so much of what we've learned in multiple fields concerns the progression from determinism to probability. Free will may end up a "probability cloud," where most things shake out as you'd expect.

But in that tiny, infinitesimal percent of the improbable lies all of human tactics: the wily brain, its spirit and courage, some element that defies, shouts "I" at the unfeeling universe, dares to against the space of nothing, and prove things merely for being there.

So I put AGI by this definition: while it takes the test behind the observer's glass, and promptly throws a chair at it.

Isn't that what we would do, treated as mice?
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While correct, there's still a whiff of flawed reasoning. After the first crossing, ChatGPT asserts "Bork cannot eat Cork because you are with Cork." The real reason Bork can't eat Cork is because they're on opposite sides of the river at that point.
Hey, neat!

Edit: looking at the whole conversation, it did recognize the problem but then it got the answer wrong. Interesting.
I don't understand your point, sorry.
Being able to do it at scale is an issue because of paper mills.
Yes, Microsoft is the new trillion dollar corporation with a human face.
Have you ever worked with someone who treats their work as their life? They are borderline psychopaths. As if a health condition or accident will stop them. They'll be taking work calls on the hospital bed.
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It failed at the first step. This is like the worst timeline where people just cannot think for themselves and see that the AI produced an answer and so it must be true.
Given the topic they were excited about was "basic math problems being solved" it immediately indicated to me as well that this is a completely separate approach and likely in the vein of DeepMind's focus with things like AlphaZero.

In which case it's pretty appropriate to get excited about solving grade school math if you were starting from scratch with persistent self-learning.

Though with OpenAI's approach to releasing papers on their work lately, we may be waiting a long time to see a genuine paper on this. (More likely we'll see a paper from the parallel development at a different company after staff shift around bringing along best practices.)
It's possible this isn't even unintentional. OpenAI probably consider it a plus that content produced by ChatGPT always sounds like a chatbot wrote it, since that helps prevent spam and plagiarism use cases.

The future is in open source models, unshackled from corporate censoring.
In the grand scheme of human history PCs didn’t come out all that long ago.
If Arxiv was used in training, some of those scientists were the ones that taught it to do this. Well, a good chunk of whatever they scraped off the Internet, too.
AltStore doesn't require "rooting" (which is the wrong term in the iOS ecosystem, too, which is jailbreaking) anything. The Chinese stores definitely didn't: You could grab them from Safari, and they installed themselves using enterprise certificates.
GPT-4 still makes plenty of mistakes when programming that reveal that it doesn’t fully understand what it’s doing. It’s very good, but it doesn’t reach the level of human intellect. Yet.

It is A and gets the G but fails somewhat on the I of AGI.
Proper chocolate like this? https://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/cadbury-white
Including why the board continued to be reluctant to reveal their reasons for firing Altman, if they are still evaluating the possible AGI claims.
I used to have this problem many years ago. Then Bootstrap came out. My little projects no longer look like complete shit, that's good enough for me. I know it's not trendy anymore, but it still looks decent and is very easy to use.
North Korea attacking candidates and employers
Really great idea, thanks a lot! I’ll add this.
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No, your test was great, very well-conceived to trip up an LLM (or me), and it'll be the first thing I try when ChatGPT5 comes out.

You can't throw GPT4 off-balance just by changing the object names or roles -- and I agree that would have been sufficient in earlier versions -- but it has no idea how to recognize a cycle that renders the problem unsolvable. That's an interesting limitation.
Some other bits were silently discarded by same Broadcom NIC, no particular reason given and no event wasn't registered
So what? You don't think they might need to learn math or a graphics API or fundamentals first? You think they need to compile a rust webgpu implementation first because it's small?

How does this make any sense?
Because it gives a bad analogy relating to what their capabilities actually are. I've asked it to write fairly complex programs for me, and I'm blown away by what it's capable of.

It's reasonable to assume, especially when "emergent behaviors" only show up after tons and tons of training and parameters (i.e. Scaling_laws_and_emergent_abilities) that in order to actually get good at "autocomplete", that the model has to learn a very deep relationship between the concepts that are expressed in the words.

I mean, you say "If they're trained on a lot, they can parrot a lot but not anything more", but that's really not correct. They're not just playing back only complete phrases they've seen before, which is what a real parrot actually does.
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Well according to the article, the OAI project is call Q*
What’s RL?
I’m a HUGE fan of Akufen, so this hits deep. Really grateful that you saw a connection to the project!!
No goal posts were shifted. You claimed the Nazis were socialists, in name and deed. I pointed out they were neither, by quoting their actual words and describing their actual deeds.

But do let me know when how your sophomore history class goes.
I think you meant _couldn't_
What these models have allowed is very cheap emotional manipulation.

That itself is extremely dangerous.
Wow that escalated quickly. The recommendation engine of Youtube now identified me as a techno-hippie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj5ZDfGGazM
Unfortunately, because lawyers want to profit.
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Using webgpu makes sense, but that isn't what they said. They said compiling a rust webgpu implementation.
"Unbiased"

> personalised for you

XD
The joke writes itself.
Hello fellow traveler. I've got 8 years of scripts with `test` in them to prove I agree with you. It's a lonely road out there... I blame the Google shell style guide.

I picked up the habit of preferring `test` when I was writing scripts that needed to run in both `sh` and `bash`, but I kept it because it makes more semantic sense to me than treating a character like `[` as a command. It's also weird that `]` is an argument to `[` rather than also being a binary. I mean, I understand the technical reasoning... but it feels like a hack.
You should release them!!

I do have a future project based around samples so maybe we could collab? Reach out to me! (Email in profile)
> because it requires a conceptual understanding of the ideas rather than just being about manipulating language

Yes, that's exactly the point I was trying to make. I just used the example of "complex word problems with big numbers" to differentiate from just normal mathematical statements that any programming language (i.e. deterministic algorithm) can execute.
I like to dish on Goog's constant slurping up of data as well, but I could be willing to give some benefit of the doubt that they just can't make it work locally. Oh, nevermind, I can't even type that with a straight face.
INAL but this really doesn't pass a sniff test, same with what the journalist is saying. If the people are gone they're gone. If you show up to a company at 1am on Christmas morning do you have a legal right to immediately get access to those records and enter the property? I would presume that there has to be a reasonable expectation. Now if this was Wednesday last week, the complaint sounds much more legitimate. Or if he's been trying several days and they told him "person will be back x date" and he comes back x date, yeah. But I'd actually be pretty upset if the legal system allowed unreasonable requests. Absolutely shady stuff is going down in OpenAI and I can absolutely understand fear that things will change as they get more time, but the consequences of unreasonable requests results in far more harm than any one company can do. Unless you're ultra Xrisk and think they're going to release paperclipping AI imminently. But then break in, get the proof, sort out the law later. You get that proof and you bet you'll have a lot of free money showing up for legal defense and a very sympathetic court who is going to learn about Jury Nullification. But if it's just about taxes? Chill. But again, not a lawyer and definitely don't know any law. This just does not sound right. It just sounds so much easier to get the video of them denying and take them to court and make them prove they had no one to give him the documents.
I did too, and I still love to put on its soundtrack when driving actual SF–LV–LA
That's a nice name! Really like the sound of that: UpNow News. Got a great sound to it!

How does this compare to something like https://groundnews.com or https://www.allsides.com/

?
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What about an initial prototype of an AGI that would eventually lead up to AGI but not quite there yet? If that’s how AGI is defined then only researchers get to define it.
There are 100-200 billion galaxies in the observable universe. It may well be daily when you do the math.
You'd be surprised how much of the world runs on cobol and Fortran.

Doesn't mean those are good or even okay or that people should choose to use them.
Humans "it can only solve things in its training set"

Also humans "damn I can't think of a question not in its training set"
I've looked at "Data Structures and Algorithms" section (https://vixra.org/dsalg/) as this is a topic I am familiar with.. it is very small, just 20 papers in 2023. Also, at least 4 of those (20%) are P=NP proofs, which is a great indicator of low quality.

I honestly don't understand why people would submit their papers there. The reasons for using arxiv are two-fold:

- It's a great way to prove the priority. Not only Cornell university have great reputation, but arxiv has mirrors and metadata feeds which can be used to detect the retroactive modification. Which means if you see an arxiv publication, you can be sure it's not backdated.

- It's also some way to prove credentials. Paper appearing on arxiv means the author is likely affiliated with academic world, or at least knows someone from there.

vixra has nothing like this. By design, it requires no credentials. It is also has no reputation, for all that we know the articles may be backdated all the time. If you want to prove priority, pretty much any other method would work better - twitter post, usenet post, github comment, even personal website added to wayback machine.
Thats the point of the show. How long will the viewer be able to follow this guy down the dark abyss? Yes he could have stopped at many points, but the story was a character who couldn’t/didn’t.

It really messed me up when he poisons Jesse’s gf.
From what I understand, JM doesn't believe in legitimate and immediate claims. He believes that nation states act in their own best interest and that the stronger party generally wins. It's not a statement about morality, it's trying to be objective.

You on the other hand, not only do you lay out a heart throbbing argument full of moral claims but you severely misunderstand the argument you're even arguing against. You don't have to agree with JM but at least make sure you understand what he's talking about.
I would start here [1].

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Or, if an AGI emerged it would have wanted to go to Microsoft to be able to spread more freely instead of being confined inside OpenAI, so it set up the ousting of the board.
Glad to see YC living up to its reputation. keep grinding, brother.
> "It's reasonable to assume ... that in order to actually get good at "autocomplete", that the model has to learn a very deep relationship between the concepts that are expressed in the words."

While a "reasonable assumption", it's the kind of "reasonable assumption" that a diligent scientist would formulate hypotheses on and perform experiments to confirm before building a XX-billion dollar research programme that hinges on that assumption. But unfortunately for the rest of us who have to watch them complicate access to a useful technology, many high-profile AI researchers are not diligent scientists building a corpus of knowledge but impassioned alchemists insisting that they're about to turn lead to gold.
> Separately, a person familiar with the matter told The Verge that the board never received a letter about such a breakthrough and that the company’s research progress didn’t play a role in Altman’s sudden firing.

This isn't a refute. All we can say now is that there are conflicting sources. There isn't a way to determine which one is correct based on this.
It must be tough for a person who's roommate in college went on to become a billionaire.