soraki_soladead's comments

The online, continuous and lossy version of this problem is more like how our memory works and still largely unsolved.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04035

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07770

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0102-6

Cyclists have a bad rep in SF because many (not all) ride quite dangerously. It's a common sight to see cyclists running four-way stop signs and lights without even yielding. I live adjacent to a four-way stop and there's an incident where a cyclist fails to yield nearly hourly.

Meanwhile, Waymo has millions of incident-free miles and of all the self-driving car companies generally takes safety seriously, even if they will act to protect their interests here.

Until more evidence comes out I'll be taking Waymo's side here. I want safer vehicles and Waymo is currently the best bet.

Here's the python version of what I think you're looking for. Shouldn't be too difficult to port to rust.

- https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07528 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10403 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13382

There are also literally hundreds of articles and tweet threads about it. Moreover, as I said, you can test many of my claims above directly using readily available LLMs.

GP has a much harder defense. They have to prove that despite all of these capabilities that LLMs are not intelligent. That the mechanisms by which humans possess intelligence is fundamentally distinct from a computer’s ability to exhibit the same behaviors so much that it invalidates any claim that LLMs exhibit intelligence.

Intelligence: “the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills”. It is difficult to argue that modern LLMs cannot do this. At best we can quibble about the meaning of individual words like “acquire”, “apply”, “knowledge”, and “skills”. That’s a significant goal post shift from even a year ago.

Citation needed. Numerous actual citations have demonstrated hallmarks of intelligence for years. Tool use. Comprehension and generalization of grammars. World modeling with spatial reasoning through language. Many of these are readily testable in GPT. Many people have… and I dare say that LLMs reading comprehension, problem solving and reasoning skills do surpass that of many actual humans.

> They model intelligent behavior

It is not at all clear that modeling intelligent behavior is any different from intelligence. This is an open question. If you have an insight there I would love to read it.

> They don't know or care what language is: they learn whatever patterns are present in text, language or not.

This is identical to how children learn language prior to schooling. They listen and form connections based on the cooccurrence of words. They’re brains are working overtime to predict what sounds follow next. Before anyone says “not from text!” please don’t forget people who can’t see or hear. Before anyone says, “not only from language!” multimodal LLMs are here now too!

I’m not saying they’re perfect or even possess the same type of intelligence. Obviously the mechanisms are different. However far too many people in this debate are either unaware of their capabilities or hold on too strongly to human exceptionalism.

> There is this religious cult surrounding LLMs that bases all of its expectations of what an LLM can become on a personification of the LLM.

Anthropomorphizing LLMs is indeed an issue but is separate from a debate on their intelligence. I would argue there’s a very different religious cult very vocally proclaiming “that’s not really intelligence!” as these models sprint past goal posts.

https://huggingface.co/datasets/glue

https://www.tensorflow.org/datasets/catalog/glue

“SOTA is only provided to households whom DSS has determined will likely have the future ability to pay the rent once they no longer have the SOTA grant to cover their rent.”

That sounds like a very high bar for people in the situation of needing rent coverage and especially if they have mental illness and/or drug addiction. Note that busing people to another city appears to be a separate program.

> Mentally ill people in high-traffic areas that openly use drugs and defecate on the sidewalk.

What is the solution to this? Round them up and put them in jail? Bus them to another city? Forcibly enroll them at a mental health facility? Improving housing costs somehow? Free housing for the homeless? Maybe walk-in drug clinics?

Some of these solutions sound inhumane. Others appear to be politically impossible at the scale needed. So what's the solution and why are the people who live there against it?

There are entire bodies of literature addressing things the current generation of available LLMs are missing: online and continual learning, retrieval from short-term memory, the experience from watching all YouTube videos, etc.

I agree that human exceptionalism and vitalism are common in these discussions but we can still discuss model deficiencies from a research and application point of view without assuming a religious argument.