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peresthe | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Reliable AI-generated text detection at checkfor.ai

This is not only not possible to build in any reliable and maintainable way, but "[w]e are the most accurate AI text detector that exists" is an outlandish claim.

peresthe | 3 years ago | on: UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years

It is truly strange to see so many comments on Hacker News -- a message board owned by YCombinator, a startup accelerator whose actual mission is to launch wildly profitable companies -- talking conspiratorially about the wealthy being "parasites", lambasting "capitalism", pointing to increased profits as evidence of unscrupulous behavior.

peresthe | 3 years ago | on: The Age of AI has begun

The comments here are particularly disappointing. Relitigating old Microsoft debates (all the way down to adolescent insults — instead of Micro$oft we have (c)opywrong), blaming Microsoft for global inequality (!), multiple references to AI being “bullshit” because a model didn’t perform up to snuff on a particular task on a particular try.

HN used to (this is a new account, but I am not new to HN) embrace technology, optimism, and the intersection of the two. Now it’s a race to see who can demonstrate their bona fides by sneering enough or affecting enough disillusionment. It’s really disappointing! And yes, I realize I’m not being the change I want to see, but it is so disheartening to see so many grumpy people racing to tear others down.

peresthe | 3 years ago | on: Visual ChatGPT

So the standard for a big company success in AI is that they have to release AGI? You must spend a lot of time being disappointed.

peresthe | 3 years ago | on: Transformer models: an introduction and catalog

"The goal of this paper is to offer a somewhat comprehensive but simple catalog and classification of the most popular Transformer models."

Yet of the 6 comments here, 2 of them are complaining about missing models and three more are arguing about the typesetting on figures.

peresthe | 3 years ago | on: Are we racing toward AI catastrophe?

It's important to note that the author is a well-known effective altruist who firmly believes that AI catastrophe _is_ coming and tweets about this quite a bit. Quite honestly, I find it odd (or perhaps telling) that Vox just provides a platform for EA to report on EA-related topics with only minor disclaimers that the author is, in fact, a well-known EA.