skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think AI safetyists are worried about any model they have created so far. But if we are able to go from letter-soup "ooh look that almost seems like a sentence, SOTA!" to GPT4 in 20 years, where will go in the next 20? And what is the point they are becoming powerful. Let alone all the crazy ways people are trying to augment them with RAG, function calls, get them to run on less computer power and so on.

Also being better at humans at everything is not a prerequisite for danger. Probably a scary moment is when it could look at a C (or Rust, C++, whatever) codebase, find an exploit, and then use that exploit as a worm. If it can do that on everyday hardware not top end GPUs (either because the algorithms are made more efficient, or every iPhone has a tensor unit).
https://www.secondstate.io/articles/zephyr-7b/
That assertion applies to the middle 80%, IME. The top 10% are the people you can drop on to any project of any size and any org structure and they adapt quickly and deliver. They adapt themselves accordingly.
Absolutely fantastic advice. Thank you!
A really neat detail from the Orca 2 paper was that despite not having any safety fine tuning it was less likely to extend hate speech than the Llama-2-chat models which did have safety fine tuning. It was also better at identifying toxic content.

It may be that as we advance models with improved reasoning, that there's less need for handholding for the simple fact that hate speech is typically stupid and non-normative, so there's going to be an inherent bias against it.

It's even possible that the efforts to fine tune the base models to effectively put them in a bubble avoiding that kind of content ends up undermining this natural immunity to it, much like keeping a kid away from a disease so their immune system never learns to fight it vs giving it a small sample that tunes the system to identify and oppose it.

What worked for earlier models that were closer to just plain autocomplete may not be the best approach moving forward to more complex models with emphasis on reasoning and 'safety' groups should really be experimenting with multiple approaches and publishing research on it, not secretly deciding they already have the answers on what's best for the model and the public - as without verifying their assumptions they are probably wrong.
>Isn't that what we would do, treated as mice?

I don't think that human demonstrable intelligence is the be-all and end-all of intelligence; I just think that it's what we're experienced with -- human-flavored intelligence; thus I think that may be a poor test criteria.

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as far as free will goes : the demonstration of free will or lack thereof means little to nothing to the individual -- and I agree with the theory put forward by user turtleyacht that the concept itself will likely be understood as a cloud of probabilities, much like just about anything in our universe.
You can’t go home again.
Have you been watching American politics for the last 20 years? Tea Party to Q/Maga, they will cite any quack economist, quack scientist, or quack doctor that provides a theory that enforces their narrative, data be damned.
Did you get a CT scan or MRI? Or self-diagnosed?
It's important to society. If we don't have a lot of free will, then blaming work ethic or some morality thing for people being poor doesn't make a lot of sense. That's just a simple example. There's lots of other consequences that make conventional opinions invalid.
I mean, come on at least give context or even a semblance of a good faith interpretation. People online hate this guy more than Trump.
You know what did change, is sales people straight up lying to customers faces about M3/ARM software support.

The M3 might be nice silicon, but robbing existing customers of what they had before is borderline bait-and-switch. The only reason people even cared about the proprietary M3 was Apples name is in front of it.

Apple might be able to draw in more performance software ports, but so far the end users either love the M3... or were very annoyed to lose a chunk of their daily workflow.

Hopefully it gets better with time, but some Apple fans were sure surprised how fast the ecosystem shrank on ARM. =)
That's... not really a great comparison. New Asus G14s/G15s are more similar to MBPs and much more competitively priced.
Ugh. We have a working example of a physical system that implements intelligence (the brain) in contrast to no evidence of all-powerful dude in the sky. Why these analogies keep popping up?

How can you know that AGI is not around the corner? Compute available to the corporations is already in a ballpark of some estimates of the brain's computational capacity. What's left is unknown unknows. And the researches working with the state of the art models have better info to estimate them than you.

"The googler" you've mentioned wasn't a researcher.
For our purposes it looks like Windmill might take the place of MWAA (Airflow) that we were planning for our ELT pipelines and could take the place of Rundeck as well. I'll need to look at it and play with it (especially from the ELT pipeline perspective for running transformers), but I suspect that we will be able to be up and running both faster and cheaper with either self-hosted Windmill or cloud.
If air Jordan’s are luxury products then yeah easy to see how that is
Huh, moving from gmail to Fastmail one of my pleasant surprises was how much better spam filtering works.
Yeah, I think it's just some kind of CSS error.
Disclaimer that I also sold my GOOG recently, also largely in compliance with my biases as an engineer.

As an investor, though, calling the “top” for a company like Google (or Microsoft) is so challenging — not “top” in terms of all time high valuation, but “top” in terms of differential forward-looking, annualized, and adjusted-for-tax returns vs VGT or VOO (i.e. a more challenging target).

These are some of the most entrenched and profitable companies in modern history. Even as they mediocratize, they remain value-accretive for years. It’s difficult to imagine them losing to inflation.

Buffet choosing Apple over any of the other FAANG/M may be looked upon even more favorably, 10-20 years from now, than it is today. Google and Microsoft are tight together in second, but I think you’re right that we’ll look back on 2018-??? as Google’s equivalent to the Ballmer years.
As an unfit person who doesn't work out, I was considering getting the Mad Muscles app because I got a ton of ads for it and it seemed to fit me well. I haven't pulled the trigger yet, but if you're looking for users like me, I suggest taking ideas from them because at a glance your apps seem very similar and I found their sales pitch very good.

As a tech consultant who dreams of quitting to pursue my own app business venture, you've opened my eyes a bit to the kind of pain that awaits me. I think you went way overkill IMO, but you did it, which is what counts in the end.

Congrats on developing your app! I'll try it out sometime and give you more feedback.
Thanks for the good work! I saved all the pages to PDF after reading the article, just in case -- was going to do the same thing as you!

I agree here: fuck Rockstar Games for this; I was so hyped for the Behind the Scenes of IV in particular. It could have shared, new undiscovered details and information. Cloning that Git repo now.

(P.S. This may be the vodka talking, but I believe I've found a few articles in your dump that I can't see on the archived page. Thank you so much for preserving this info.)
this is very helpful, thank you!
But useful work on who's behalf and for what 'use'?
Some people have no inner monolog, something that blew my mind.

When I work on problems I don't understand I'll monolog it internally. Now when I'm doing things I understand well I have some kind of internal shortcut language (my own token set I guess), that can sometimes make it difficult to explain to other people.
Sorry, should have linked to it. You can find it in a purple box on this page...

https://openai.com/our-structure
> Much of the criticism Google received around Chrome and Search, especially around supposed conflicts of interest with Ads, was way off base (it's surprising how often coincidences and mistakes can appear malicious).

Perhaps the individuals the author knows were pernicious, but clearly someone is. Look at the current state of YouTube demonetization and war on adblocking (ads are a vector for malware).
Promotion of the Freedom of Scientific Research in the EU
If LLM-based AGI is essentially made out of human thoughts put down in writing, then transcending our nature and values would possibly require a big leap. Perhaps this big leap would take the AGI a second, perhaps longer. And it would be a double-edged sword. We would want it to not have goals (in case they are incompatible with ours), but we would want it to value human life.

I love Star Trek, but I hope we don't have to deal with AGI for the next hundreds of years.
Here's my challenge: if this is correct, we then have to assume that 95% of the company is purely profit-motivated since they aligned behind Sam. I'm cynical, but I struggle to be that cynical. I would have expected a few more holdouts in the name of caution, EA, etc. Maybe it's a blindness.
That’s not actually different on the Windows side, you should update your priors. There are datacenters full of Server 2019 boxes that have never been upgraded because the guest VMs are mission critical.

Source: I’ve responded incidents on those guests. It’s terrifying, but hypervisor uptime is limited by power not OS choice.
Reminds me of the “asymmetric bullshit principle”
you’re reading way too much into my post.

It’s lots of words all run together for the purpose of being a logic puzzle and obviously I made a parsing mistake in my brain.

I’m not trying to assume AI is right, I’m trying to put a factual stake in the ground, one way or the other so we have more data points rather than speculation.
I think trying to deal with big corporations requires being somewhat firm. This journalist looked like he was behaving well to me. He gave the guy his driver's license info after all. That's the opposite of shady.

Clearly these people at openai didn't know what to do. The company is in chaos, it's almost in dumpster fire territory at this time (is the ceo sam back, do they even have a CEO or other leadership still left, did the board quit, is there anyone on the board, are lawyers in charge there?). And it is the day before Thanksgiving. But many companies that don't want to give up required information would do similar things, like say I don't know, we don't have the right people here today to decide what to do. If you are a journalist you have to require fair treatment and politely demand what is legally possible. It's just what you do to succeed. Companies don't treat you like you are Ted Kopell and just hand it over.

It's the last thing anyone at openai wants to see, but it's what people have to do to get the facts. They don't usually post the videos where they get incorrectly refused maybe but this is an every day event for a journalist. Showing these kinds of videos shows what real journalists face every day. You think the person investigating say the public expense reports of a mayor just gets them without insisting? No, she does not, without being politely forceful.
> Then the DMCA would be wrong

It's encoded in law. I wasn't talking about "what should be", I was talking about "what is".

> it is pretty much not possible to pay the "original artist" because you cannot identify them

there are numerous cases where an AI has spat out "literally just the original image, but badly". It really sucks that AI companies might literally have to- checks notes -"pay the people they're stealing from", though. Oh, my heart weeps for those billionaires that might have to shed a penny from their fortune to help those they sleep upon.
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Not in any physically interesting way. This wouldn't have any chance of discovering the Yang Mills equations for example.
No. That's cheap plastic gamer junk. Those are toys. Different market segment. Not comparable. MacBook Pro competes with high end professional laptops, not consumer gaming laptops. Dell Precision with 4k screen is what you would compare it to.
Non-AI writers, including professionals, imitate other writers' styles all the time, whether that's specific writers or a general genre. For example, the Dresden Files series started out as an intentional homage/parody of potboiled detective works except with all the urban magic stuff added in, and retained much of that style over time, like the intentionally overdramatic internal narration.
I use React (either via Vite or Next.js), TailwindCSS for styling, shadcn for most components, Radix etc.

However, I still struggle with what layouts look good, colors and color combinations, spacing, animations, shadows etc.

I’ve had some success with using Framer to get to a starting point and going from there.
Tesla Revolutionizes Armored Transport with Bulletproof Cybertruck 4X4 APC
Popular LA grocery store spotted selling Thanksgiving turkey for nearly $200
Are we pretending GPT isn’t a leagues better data-faker than Faker?
Mysterious pneumonia outbreak leaves China's hospitals overwhelmed with sick
When the first "How it Works" paragraph hasn't been proofed it screams lack of attention to detail.

We pull the stop stories from 120,000+ sources and curate them to your individual interests and location using only your zip code.

"Stop" stories?
A measured response, thank you for laying it out so nicely.
My understanding is that the Mensheviks were technically a majority on the first day of the split, because Lenin had pushed so many people out before the climax of the conference. The point still stands though, that's what the words mean.
I guess that implies you are at openai, maybe not? What does it mean that different things are at stake with ai and that "we are aligned"?
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And ksh (ksh88 & later)
It is worth clicking on the posted article just for the first photo showing this tower. Reminiscent of Pink Floyd album art.

After viewing the other photos, I am surprised there is no concrete IBM building with a slanted top corner and window pattern matching a punch card.
If the stories from media and elsewhere were correct, then current and future investors (Microsoft, Thrive Capital) were pressuring OpenAI to bring back Sam. They wouldn't be doing that if they were giving to charity?
Ask Polish or Italian Americans if “whiteness” is a modern obsession and about skin color. Hell go watch Gangs of New York, which came out in 2002, and see if the Irish were considered white.

This is a tale as old as time. In group, out group. Whiteness isn’t just about your skin color.
It's the difference between the pretrained and chat/instruct fine tuned models.

The TextCompletion DaVinci was way better than the ChatCompletion model in variety of language.

Trying to get the chat model to generate marketing copy was laughable. It looked like a high school senior's idea of copywriting, and was nearly impossible to correct.

The base model was pretty easy to get great results from as long as effectively biasing the context towards professional copy.

Even the fact that you can't set the system messages at a core level is silly.

I can't have the model actually be told it is an award winning copywriter. Instead it effectively gets told "you are a LLM by OpenAI pretending to be an award winning copywriter."

Really too bad that 99% of the training data it was built on top of wasn't being written by a LLM by OpenAI.

It's effectively narrowing the context space unnecessarily and creating a bottleneck that severely limits the application of the SotA model, but it still scores well on the handful of tests it is being evaluated on so no one bats an eye as it seems no one at OpenAI has heard of Goodhart's Law.
Large Language Models pose risk to science with false answers
Weird I used to use broadcom chips decades ago. My new job uses Autosys - by Broadcom wtf?
YouTube Removed Popular Catholic Channel Accused of Scam
The non-profit could sell off its interest in the for-profit company and use the money for AGI research.
Is filing reports as a nonprofit an example of unreasonable expectations from the us govt?
Here’s what you could have googled, but didn’t - United States v. Microsoft Corp. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....)

> The U.S. government accused Microsoft of illegally maintaining its monopoly position in the personal computer (PC) market, primarily through the legal and technical restrictions it put on the abilities of PC manufacturers (OEMs) and users to uninstall Internet Explorer and use other programs such as Netscape and Java.

Also of interest with respect to bundling - Microsoft Corp. v. Commission (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commissio...)

> is a case brought by the European Commission of the European Union (EU) against Microsoft for abuse of its dominant position in the market (according to competition law). It started as a complaint from Sun Microsystems over Microsoft's licensing practices in 1993, and eventually resulted in the EU ordering Microsoft to divulge certain information about its server products and release a version of Microsoft Windows without Windows Media Player.
Just to be clear the figures at the link are not mine. It's not my post.

Anyway, I've been making Playdate stuff, on and off, for a few years at this point. And since April this year I've averaged one game every month or two. It's not my side-gig but my only gig, total focus.

YOYOZO took me 3 weeks, and was waiting in the release queue for a longer period than it took me to develop it. You can read it's development timeline: https://discord.com/channels/675983554655551509/114934947132...

My next game releases on 5th December. Here's a blog post about how I created that in a week: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/06/26/ball-und-panzer-g...
This is like arguing that you’re a sovereign citizen.

What’s the end game here? Cops aren’t interpreters of the law, they don’t care about your statutes. And frankly, they could be out actually doing something instead of talking down knucklehead “journalists”
Mirror as of 16:49 PST today https://archive.org/details/insiderockstarnorth.blogspot.com
this thread is dramatic evidence there's demand for this product.

that said, I have to echo some of the other folks here: this tool is not useful for determining the risk to my dog.

problems:
- items known to be not-toxic are listed as toxic (water?)
-items known to be toxic are not weighed higher than non-toxic items in search
- items with dosage dependent toxicity don't expose that toxicity (onions are toxic, my dog would need to eat several raw onions to have any toxicity)
- items known to be extremely toxic in low dosages (like xylitol) aren't present
- the toxic component of dishes aren't listed
Then why has the number of OSHA inspectors increased significantly under Democratic president?
At least on mobile there’s no indication of which model was used. There’s also no additional prompting on that link.
Not at the scale involved here.
Depends. Someone might want to go from base M1 to M3 Pro for example.

That said I have an M2 Pro MBP and this thing is a monster.
> Do you think IQ tests are as valid as psychologists claim?

As someone who is the spawn of two MENSAns, has friends in Neurosci and Psych, and who has brushed up a fair bit on the topic, I don't think any psychologists outside those in a tiny subset of the community believe in IQ Tests. The support for them is at best "well they measure something, but we're not sure what it is, and we have trouble labeling it as 'intelligence' due to the broad nature of that term". There are so, so many flaws with IQ testing that have been pointed out not only by yourself, but also by others in the field. The only actual practical, measurable use an IQ test to improve lives to date was an application in the 1980s on intake for fighter pilots, and it resulted in many less fighter pilots dying from crashes during training.
You can start with Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid.
Would splitting into regions make things better or worse? It feels like the US it’s going the same way but we’re a couple decades behind you
Can we just say it? Business school graduates ruin innovation. They ruin principles. They ruin quality. Their goals are not aligned with the goals of creators and makers. Their goals are, chiefly, to make money.

The worst thing you can do as a company looking to continue to burn with innovation is hire someone with a business degree. I don’t have any problem saying it.
I like this. Thank you for commenting.
Disclosure: I work for General Motors, anything written here is solely my own experience and opinion. I'm not an expert on welding automation, but I've been around it quite a bit.

I think the most important thing to say is: Automation doesn't solve problems; to use automation, you have to solve all the problems that automation will encounter. This is called Design for Automation.

From the article:

> "Manufacturers adjusted their upstream processes to produce more uniform parts with less variability. Part tolerances were reduced in things like metal stamping, jigs and fixturing were made more precise, new handling methods were introduced to prevent parts from being damaged moving between stations, and parts were thoroughly cleaned before welding."

Some notes: the welder may be the cheapest part of the automation solution. A welder is deployed in a 'station' in a 'cell' in a 'zone'. Each of those has it's controller (PLC, robot controller, weld controller) of some type. The station includes some kind of conveyance or handling. There's also a jig or parts holder for every weld station.

There's about 1 skilled tradesperson (electrician) per zone or two. There's also various kinds of monitoring, from cycle times to weld tip temperature. Fun fact: the aluminum welders have little 'pencil sharpeners' that shave the copper weld tips to keep the welds consistent. Aluminum spot welders don't spark like steel welders do.

Every so often, a part is taken off for destructive testing with a hammer and chisel.

In addition to welding, a lot of glue is used in the body shop. Glue is great because it has a lot of surface area, and it stops squeaks, rattles and other noises.
I think it’s reasonable that 95% of people would choose generational wealth for their families given the opportunity.
As always, it depends on your requirements.

GPT definitely wins out if you want more novelty/variety in your fake data and are willing to accept extraordinarily higher cost, less rigor, and less reliability. I'm sure there's some occasion when those criteria win out, but Faker's pretty decent most of the time.
The reason why there are two different codes for each cheat in GTA San Andreas
The actual experience of using Pixel ML features is extremely good, so it feels like the implementation details are inside baseball. Just like the last line of the article says: they are class-leading features. Speech-to-text and the reverse are the most noticable improvements over iOS.
Reinforcement learning.
No, what made this person fearful was a substantial jump in math ability. (Very) obviously they are not afraid of producing a machine that can multiply numbers. They’re afraid of what that capability (and especially the jump in capability) means for other behaviors.
AI safety by the waterfall model.

But how else can we do it? We learnt how to handle other dangers by trial and error...

One approach is legal. The law is very slow to adapt, and is informed by a history of things gone wrong. The simple answer is that OpenAI has "strict liaility" (meaning they are liable even for an accident) for any damage caused by an AI, like dangerous animals that escape.

I know it seems ridiculous to consider liability when the fate of humanity may be at stake... but this is the language of companies, directors, insurance companies and legal counsel. It is language they understand.