skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't strike me as being a big claim, I recently bought some RAM for a NUC a few weeks ago on Amazon only to determine that it was likely counterfeit. It came in an official box with all packaging intact.
If we achieve AGI it has the potential to capture most (if not all) economic value. Larry Summers was a deliberate choice indeed.
SUVs are pure fuck you I got mine individualism. They make the road more dangerous for pedestrians and even other drivers due to their size. And the reasons people give for owning them are usually bullshit. They're not even more spacious than a van. And the pickup trucks keep getting shorter in the back and longer in the front so the utility is getting worse every year. Unfortunately it has now become an arms race whereby people are almost forced to get a big vehicle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
I don't know, maybe. I'd certainly agree that at least the King's Field and Shadow Tower games are like that, perfect examples of how you can start a game in a complete state of WTF and slowly get better and better until in the end you feel like Superman. And Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 and 2 might fit that too, but from then on (DS3, Bloodborne, Sekiro) it became more of a question of combat challenge than actual discovery/exploration itself.

I'm currently doing a sweep of the From catalogue in release order, and I have to say, wow I love their early approach to game design with King's Field and Shadow Tower. (Armored Core is fun but not really my cup of tea)
I don't think it's even implied fitness. Declaring you support SCSI commands is probably a direct advertisement of conformance.
So, the fair assumption would be to assume all content with too good to be true writing and grammar is AI written?
Right now, chatgpt is trained on a broad spectrum of slightly dated information, so hopefully the biases even out. And we know it hallucinates etc.

In the future I see two big risks with the tech, approach and ownership:

1) short term, SEO is going to move into trying to influence the LLMs to push products unwittingly. Companies will be getting great offers from shady SEO outfits promising to make their products the default answers for broad questions?

2) mid term, now that all sense and pretence of safety and greater good are gone from openai, openai will be working out how to insert and see ads in the results? There will probably even be product placement in the results coming from the paid-for in-ms-office version.
When correcting a typo, tapping on the character in a word selects the entire word instead of putting the caret next to the tapped character. Also, long pressing "space" doesn't move caret as it moved to in previous iOS versions.
I think not at the time they would have signed the letter? Though it's hard to keep up with the whirlwind of news.
Honestly that engine, although famously mythologised by clarkson etc. as being nigh-indestructible, is horrendously bad on fuel economy and rather underpowered on top of that. At least this is the case for the Tacoma pickup version of that aging mill, and 4Runner which is sold in the states. Maybe there are other options for the Hilux in Europe but it's really time for Toyota to recognize that rather fewer than 1 in 10 Hilux owners are going to be driving the trucks off of cliff faces or across the polar ice gaps, and the putative trade off of reliability and durability for fuel economy needs to be revisited in light of how the thing is actually used.
And it's amazing how many people you can get to cheer it on if you brand it as "combating dangerous misinformation". It seems people never learn the lesson that putting faith in one group of people to decree what's "truth" or "ethical" is almost always a bad idea, even when (you think) it's your "side"
Sam was crucified, then resurrected after 3 days and 3 nights.
I wonder what is the rationale for picking a seasoned politician and economist (influenced deregulation of US finance system, was friends with Epstein, had a few controversies listed there). Has the government also entered the chat so obviously?
The "Technology Importation, Corporate Strategies, and the Rise of the Japanese Semiconductor Industry in the 1950s" link says it was Western Electric ("the manufacturing arm of the Bell System") who did the licensing, so it technically should have been WE executives, yes?

That may be a minor point, but you can also read that after Morita signed the patent license, he "returned to Tokyo with a few sample transistors, a piece of high-grade germanium crystal, and a copy of Transistor Technology."

What was Transistor Technology?

"After the first symposium, WE began to license the patent rights to manufacture transistors to anyone willing to pay a fee of $25,000, which was “to be applied as an advance against any future royalties [usually 2% of sales].” This was the news Sony’s Ibuka Masaru heard when he arrived in the United States in early 1952. After the second symposium, the company published the two-volume Transistor Technology—a compilation of articles by key researchers at Murray Hill and Allentown—to be provided to its patent licensees (Riordan & Hoddeson, 1997, pp. 196–197). By 1952, most major U.S. companies, including GE, Raytheon, Texas Instruments, and Westinghouse, became WE licensees (Transistor Technology Symposium, 1952)."

(An updated version of Transistor Technology is available from archive.org, in three volumes, eg, https://archive.org/details/transistor_technology_v1/page/n5... )

I can hardly think the WE execs thought all those licensees were going to make hearing aids at best.

While I don't have a copy of Chip Wars handy, archive.org has a copy of the 1989 book "The Chip War" by Fred Warshofsky. At https://archive.org/details/chipwarbattlefor00wars/page/62/m... you can read how Ibuka told the WE engineers he wanted "to make the world's smallest radio. He was laughed at." The frequency characteristics were too poor for radio. Sony ended up having to develop the ground-junction transistor to solve that noise problem.

I think a fair reading is that WE did not think Sony could do anything with the transistor regarding voice or music beyond a hearing aid as they knew their transistors couldn't handle the bandwidth. We can read that WE needed convincing to provide a license in the first place because "Technology Importation ..." writes:

"When he finally got in touch with WE, the U.S. company reacted suspiciously to small, unknown company from the Far East. WE asked Sony to send more detailed information about the firm, including a brief company history, recent financial reports, and a list of technical achievements."
> Because of screens.

Not entirely true. When kids used to go outside, they went alone outside since the age of 6 or even 5. That is impossible now. In order for kids to go outside, an adult must be there with them. That is adult bored on playground, cant cook, cant clean, cant socialize with friends, cant have fun. So adults wont go.

And then by the time kids are allowed to go outside, they dont know what to do there, other kids are not there and they are too old.
That type of plasticity is important for the survival of the species ( if the memories are important enough, then the later generations would have used it and it will probably remain)
My reading of all this is that the board is both incompetent and has a number of massive conflicts of interests.

What I don’t understand is why they were allowed to stay on the board with all these conflicts of interests all the while having no (financial) stake in OpenAI. One of the board members even openly admitting that she considered destroying OpenAI a successful outcome of her duty as board member.
Ruby Tip – Interactive debugging without the need for gems
> Putin and Xinping will be laughing because they have such a strong hold on their countries, them going to jail is unthinkable.

That’s one way to look at it. Another way is to note that they’ve done a real good job of limiting their potential future options. They get to remain in power, or be exiled and live in hiding, or be dead? They’re unlikely to resign and get to live a quiet retirement, just as they’re unlikely to be jailed by their opponents?
The Matthew Effect in Science – annotated/explained version (1968)
I follow this debate often on HN and I've learned that those who say you can't walk or bike anywhere in a suburb are talking about areas I consider rural.
> feel-good kumbaya sing-along

learning english over HN is so fun !
Satya probably isn't that happy, after the weekend efforts to eventually bring all folks into Microsoft.
That would be the camp advocating for, well, open AI. I.e. wide model release. The AI ethics camp are more "let us control AI, for your own good"
I usually take it with just water on a empty stomach and never had any issue.
I understand what you are saying, but sometimes, news like this is perhaps the only excitement in our otherwise dull lives.
True is a bit of a stretch here right?
> When people say they want safe AGI, what they mean are things like "Skynet should not nuke us" and "don't accelerate so fast that humans are instantly irrelevant."

Yes. You are right on this.

> But what it's being interpreted as is more like "be excessively prudish and politically correct at all times"

I understand it might seem that way. I believe the original goals were more like "make the AI not spew soft/hard porn on unsuspecting people", and "make the AI not spew hateful bigotry". And we are just not good enough yet at control. But also these things are in some sense arbitrary. They are good goals for someone representing a corporation, which these AIs are very likely going to be employed as (if we ever solve a myriad other problems). They are not necessary the only possible options.

With time and better controls we might make AIs which are subtly flirty while maintaining professional boundaries. Or we might make actual porn AIs, but ones which maintain some other limits. (Like for example generate content about consenting adults without ever deviating into under age material, or describing situations where there is no consent.) But currently we can't even convince our AIs to draw the right number of fingers on people, how do you feel about our chances to teach them much harder concepts like consent? (I know I'm mixing up examples from image and text generation here, but from a certain high level perspective it is all the same.)

So these things you mention are: limitations of our abilities at control, results of a certain kind of expected corporate professionalism, but even more these are safe sandboxes. How do you think we can make the machine not nuke us, if we can't even make it not tell dirty jokes? Not making dirty jokes is not the primary goal. But it is a useful practice to see if we can control these machines. It is one where failure is, while embarrassing, is clearly not existential. We could have chosen a different "goal", for example we could have made an AI which never ever talks about sports! That would have been an equivalent goal. Something hard to achieve to evaluate our efforts against. But it does not mesh that well with the corporate values so we have what we have.
I think another factor is that they had very limited time. It was clear they needed to pick a side and build momentum quickly.

They couldn’t sit back and dwell on it for a few days because then the decision (i.e. the status quo) would have been made for them.
Also if it takes hour and hours to charge with 8W, then it becomes easier to unplug it at or around 80%. So maybe it's the best way to charge the Mac - a way that all the cool kids will be doing :)
> Furthermore, the overwhelming groupthink shows there's clearly little critical thinking amongst OpenAI's employees either.

I'm sure has been a lot of critical thinking going on. I would venture a guess that employees decided that Sam's approach is much more favorable for the price of their options than the original mission of the non-profit entity.
Open Group, the home of UNIX standards never was that open.
For the cold water, fill them on top like a steam train!
Rules tables are ai and must be regulated.

So is excel.
I'm getting pretty tired of the anti-human bullshit on this site.
Cool, thanks for the analysis, you obviously have played much more Paper Mario and M&L than I have. :)

Yes, it's inevitable, I understand and that's why I said that I don't want to step into right vs. wrong territory. It is what it is, but personally I find it exhilarating to step into a world like the ones from King's Field or Shadow Tower (early From Software games) and realize I have absolutely no frigging clue of what's going on around me, and then slowly learning how to handle the crushing difficulty until I master it. By coincidence the commenter below mentioned From Software which was exactly what I was thinking of when I commented. Early Souls games are also good examples, but even they have become basically arcade-fighting games by now.
That's typically through parasitic/grafting/symbiotic relationships, and even that takes a few half millienia of repeated symbiosis and selective pressures to take. What's being described here is much faster and much more immediate.
Should all gambling companies be jailed?
One of the reason i don’t want openAI to die isn’t only the (impressive) power of GPT-4.

Actually, it’s the mobile application. They should have opted for a boring PWA but instead they developed a nice native application with good UI/UX. I also appreciate that they created integrations with the Shortcuts app which allows you to do make very powerful things. I really hope they extends this because it’s text only for now but now with GPT4V and the new ability to generate files, you could do impressive things with shortcuts.
It's a spectrum, not a binary. They may not care about HN posts because:

1. We're anonymous here (by default)

2. You can't be fingerprinted from your HN posts the way you can be with your unique voice
A word of caution - I've asked ChatGPT 3.5 to generate quizzes based on books before and while most answers were right, a few were technically wrong, and some were outright fabrications (presented very confidently!)
Imo the thinking is that whenever humans have tried to pre-process or feature-engineer a solution or tried to find clever priors in the past, massive self-supervised-learning enabled, coarsely architected, data-crunching NNs got better results in the end. So, many researchers / industry data scientists may just be disinclined to put effort into something that is doomed to be irrelevant in a few years. (And, of course, with every abstraction you will lose some information that may bear more importance than initially thought)
Because it is a scoop
It's the cult of the CEO in action.
Sorry, how many died? Where are you getting your figures?

The implied defence of russia is particularly inappropriate, given the russians have raped, tortured, and massacred tens of thousands of Ukrainians just in the past couple of years. If you're taking ethnic cleansing to simply mean displaced, then russia is guilty of ethnic cleansing to the tune of millions of civilians.
If I was a lawyer (and suitably charismatic) I could stand up in court and convincingly demonstrate that all the trivial examples in this thread are indeed Ai as written by the founding fathers of this legislation.
My concern isn't some kind of run-away science-fantasy Skynet or gray goo scenario.

My concern is far more banal evil. Organizations with power and wealth using it to further consolidate their power and wealth, at the expense of others.
Pre-Launch Woes: Cracking the Engagement Code with my Mailing List
Boat houses are extremely heavy, for obvious reasons. Hydrofoil requires light construction, so these two are not compatible (plus it only works at speeds you would not want to have a house moving at).
You don't have to wonder anymore! You replied to an example of it.
My favourite easter eggs are:

I remember playing through the first F.E.A.R. and noticing a coffee machine in an office kitchen. It had an unknown brand name on it so I checked it against the game's credits and it matched up with one of the game's artists.

My favourite, though, was playing through Deus Ex: Human Revolution and finding three sea shells on the wall next to a toilet.
His sentencing is in February. According to the plea deal, he waives his right to appeal any sentence not more than 18 months, so he might still be in jail for a short period.
And it was stick fucking strange, they assu
SA on the PC and SA on the PS2 are very different beasts
The rot started with “self-charging hybrid”.
Project managers, ducks, and dogs marking territory (2013)
Voice makes a very bad fingerprint. Especially when you know you can simulate it from like 2 seconds recording with AI.
Bleach does not tackle fatal hospital superbug, UK researchers find
You say that as if that was his end goal. His end goal was to save the situation, and that happened. One can easily argue that Microsoft’s offer added huge pressure on the OpenAI board that made the new / current outcome possible. And perhaps that was the plan after all.
> which is pretty unusual as most people don't care about their CEO at all

I'm sure Sam is a charismatic guy, but generally speaking folks will support a whole lot when a multi million dollar payday is on the line.
Children of Time would be a closer match in terms of the ingestible knowledge transfer. Also, siderant: the rest of the series is not as great. I'd recommend new readers to try the first book (Time), and then maybe skim through the second (Ruin), and ignore the third (Memory).
The alternative was that all OpenAI employees started to work directly for MSFT, as they said in the letter signed by 95% of them.
Samsung was caught doing this with their 970 pro( plus? Their naming is awful) - they swapped out the controller in a good portion of devices which resulted in significantly lower read and write performance.
They were supposed to have higher values than money
Yeah and the person with kids being allowed outside is the one living in a bubble in USA. And the people outside of his bubble do get really outraged over the idea that 7 years old could be outside without parent.
Four CEO changes in five days to be precise.

Sam -> Mira -> Emmet -> Sam
>“Digestion is required for survival,” said Marissa Scavuzzo

nice quote nerds
I think the general public understand AGI as a conscious mind that is also intelligent in the AI researcher sense, like what you might see in movie. Lots of hype comes from this terminology gap.
A patient portal is a secure website that allows patients to access their medical records online. Patients can use patient portals to view their lab results, medications, allergies, and other important health information.
Yes well, then your concern is not AI safety.
Binance and CEO admit financial crimes, billions coughed up to US govt
The trailer doesn't really explain how the controls will be, but it's much better than what I expected for a "QWOP-like" game
The trick is to write the summary from the point of view of the original author, preferably by lifting a quote from the text.

https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ has a recent example "Kevin Scott (MSFT CTO) inviting all Open AI employees to join MSFT" which sounds like the title of a third-party article describing said event, but actually directly points to the Microsoft CTO's tweet with the offer https://twitter.com/kevin_scott/status/1726971608706031670 so it got edited to a quote "If needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation" which is an attempt to summarize the content but doesn't provide additional context so it might be condidered more clickbaity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38364315
Your second link is so true I feel like I am living in the parallel universe with all the WC hype here revently
"there is a proven way for the risk to materialise" - I still don't know what this means. "Proven" how?

Wouldn't your edit apply to any not-impossible risk (i.e., > 0% probability)? For example, "trying to avoid situations where control over AGI is lost, leading to unaligned AGI (a known existential risk)"?

You can not run away from having to estimate how likely the risk is to happen (in addition to being "known").
they definitely do but i think in podcasts i generally have a better ability to evaluate how much trust i should place in what i'm hearing. i know if i'm listening to a professional chef podcast, i can probably trust they will generally be right talking about how they like to bake a turkey. if i'm listening to the hot wings guy interview zac efron i know to be less blindly trusting of their info on astrophysics.

with chatgpt i don't know it's "experience" or "education" on a topic and it has no social accountability motivating it to make sure it gets things right so i can't estimate how much i should trust it in the same way.
Maybe it is my PC, but, in my experience, Fluent Search is half-baked. And I really wanted to love it; still have it installed.

Screen search is inconsistent (the letter assignment for the same item on the screen changes between invocations). Certain items are not reachable in, e.g., VSCode. The last time I checked, screen search had no support for multiple monitors. Searching within files was in the beta build, which was, well, very beta. Fluent Search indexing is pretty resource heavy.

If you have had similar issues and resolved them, I would love to hear from you.
I wish I could use the mobile app on iOS. Getting a weird error when trying to login, something about date/time being wrong on my device. Since date/time is autosynced, it must be something else. I wonder why I have this tendency to hit on bugs that nobody else has...
However, he does seem like the kind of person able to easily manipulate someone book-smart like Ilya into actually feeling guilty about the whole affair. He'll end up graciously forgiving Ilya in a way that will make him feel indebted to Sam.
Ideally I'd like no gatekeeping, i.e. open model release, but that's not something OAI or most "AI ethics" aligned people are interested in (though luckily others are). So if we must have a gatekeeper, I'd rather it be one with plain old commercial interests than ideological ones. It's like the C S Lewis quote about robber barons vs busybodies again

Yet again, the free market principle of "you can have this if you pay me enough" offers more freedom to society than the central "you can have this if we decide you're allowed it"
This is it. You'd mark the memory locations, go back to the game, repeat the search and filter down.

Either that, or you'd just go about trying one by one until you found it, then tried to figure out a pattern of what was around it and make notes on a paper for next time.
The curious case of the abominable shower
I thought so originally too, but when I thought about their perspective, I realized I would probably sign too. Imagine that your CEO and leadership has led your company to the top of the world, and you're about to get a big payday. Suddenly, without any real explanation, the board kicks out the CEO. The leadership almost all supports the CEO and signs the pledge, including your manager. What would you do at that point? Personally, I'd sign just so I didn't stand out, and stay on good terms with leadership.

The big thing for me is that the board didn't say anything in its defense, and the pledge isn't really binding anyway. I wouldn't actually be sure about supporting the CEO and that would bother me a bit morally, but that doesn't outweigh real world concerns.
I think the choice they had to make was: either building one of the top AI on earth under total control of OpenAI investors (and most likely the project of their life) either do nothing.

So they bowed.
I don't understand how the conclusion of this is "so we should proceed with AI" rather than "so we should immediately outlaw all foundation model training". Clearly corporate self-governance has failed completely.
See also Yemen, the willfull murder of 5% of Iraqs population, etc....
Hey we had knives too! Dunno if anyone still played mumblety-peg in the West by then but behind the curtain pocket knife games were super popular.