dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: Anthropic's 100k context is now available in the web UI
Cremieux is the pen name of reddit user u/TrannyPornO just read some of his comments.
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dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: “Just a statistical text predictor”
Some form of prediction being used by the higher-level neurons doesn't make the brain a prediction engine.
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: “Just a statistical text predictor”
> Have you heard of information theory?
> Your argument against deriving meaning from statistics completely ignores that the brain also works this way.
The brain is not predicting it's compressing.
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: “Just a statistical text predictor”
This talk by Feynman is slightly related:
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: “Just a statistical text predictor”
> I understand that you may believe your ability to think is magic.
Nobody said that. I am sick of the false dichotomy of being given only two choices:
a) It's magic
b) It's akin to our latest discovery
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: How AI knows things no one told it
If it's continious then nothing is emerging and it can be explained by the sum of it's sub-systems.
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: How AI knows things no one told it
> Of course it's just statistics, but so are we.
Where is this coming from?
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: How AI knows things no one told it
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: How AI knows things no one told it
> Do you see?
Emergence can only be discontinuous.
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: Turn ideas into music with MusicLM
Thanks for sharing!
In the 1st example ["computer nerds", "hackernews", "geeky", "computer tones"] seem to make the result sound more like an old-school RPG soundtrack rather than a song.
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: Narrative over Numbers: Andreessen Horowitz's State of Crypto Report
I still cant believe people voluntarily scanned their fucking eyeballs!
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: Google Bard blocks all European Union countries
You think privacy has no value?
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think
> Really, has there been a backlash against me? I hadn't noticed any change. I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before. This sort of thing happens to a lot of people, and I would really like to avoid it.
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: Creatures That Don’t Conform
I blame Substack.
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: GPU vendor-agnostic fluid dynamics solver in Julia
> society and the economy like never before. This process carries enormous risks and opportunities, which are currently basically... ignored (well, the risk side)
What risks are you talking about here?
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: Are We Close to AGI?
Not achievable with current methods != Impossible
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: Are We Close to AGI?
I dont think its fair to say that LLMs have passed the Turing test.
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: Are We Close to AGI?
From the wikipedia page you linked:
Isaac Asimov's Corollary to Clarke's First Law: "When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervour and emotion – the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right."
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: Life After Language
> This thread's article was written by a high-IQ intelligent author.
Does he also have a Mensa membership?
dS0rrow | 2 years ago | on: Google DeepMind CEO says some form of AGI possible in a few years
If not convincing what argument for and against do you think is the strongest?
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