> If you care then you'll fact check before publishing. Doing a proper fact check is as much work as doing the entire research by hand, and therefore, this system is useless to anyone who cares about the result being…
> The proof is in the fact that it flies, not what it is constructed from. And LLMs do not. > "But it looks like reasoning to me" My condolences. You should go see a doctor about your inability to count the number of…
> The employer sets the terms of the interview. If you don’t like them, don’t apply. What you're missing here is that this is an individual's answer to a systemic problem. You don't apply when it's _one_ obnoxious…
> It isn't banned Yet. They have clearly voiced their desire for this. > it just won't be state funded. This isn't just "The government is not funding research into this", this is the government maintaining a list of…
> Your stereotypes belie a lack of familiarity with researchers I was referencing what the current Trump administration deems "meritocratic" and seeks to "return" to, their policy changes are in direct response and…
>Why should somebody researching e.g. fusion for the Department of Energy also need to create a Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research (PIER) plan, to even apply? Why? Because a homogenous culture of researchers is…
Their way of squaring this circle has always been to whine about "AI safety". (the cultish doomsday shit, not actual harms from AI) Sam Altman will proclaim that he alone is qualified to build AI and that everyone else…
What the claimed motivation is does not matter; the order is gone in it's entirity now. Frankly, it's just conservatives using "affirmative action" as a buzzword, because it really doesn't describe affirmative action as…
If you're a federal contractor: Congratulations you can now be discriminated against on the grounds of "race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin" And as a reminder to the…
> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President. "Engaging in political censorship of their platform in favour of the President" is a little more than being "friendly". Free Speech in the US is dying.…
> What if instead it was possible to feed the bots clearly damaging and harmfull content? With all respect, you're completely misunderstanding the scope of AI companies' misbehaviour. These scrapers already gleefully…
> (Otherwise we'd just be doing that already.) Not quite what the original commenter meant but: WE ARE. A major consequence of this reckless AI scraping is that it turbocharged the move away from the web and into closed…
> I don't think that's true for their VR/MR hardware. They literally record the cameras and 'screen', then send it off to their servers. The VR hardware absolutely spies on you. Even if you tell it not to, it still…
> Under copyleft you pay for free code with more code You do not. There is nothing in the GPL that mandates you contribute. You can simply use the software as-is, and never contribute. Sit on your hands when there's a…
> So it's Free as in speech, not as in beer. See how in my comment I use 4 synonyms for "free", including "gratis"? That was not just trying to sound cool. That was trying (and evidently, failing, given you're not the…
> They've just legally given up all the coercive options, so the only tool left is complaint My previous comment on this was unclear. The very act of complaining about it betrays the idea that it's "freedom". Either…
Public transit companies that make tickets explicitly free and then get upset nobody pays them would get laughed out the room for bemoaning "free-riders". It may be a "technically correct" use of the word, but it's not…
Different tasks then? If you are using VLMs in the context of medical imaging, I have concerns. That is not a place to use hallucinatory AI. But yes, the transformer model itself isn't useless. It's the application of…
> Anyone who says AI is useless Most of those people are a bit bad at making their case. What they mean but don't convey well is that AI is useless for it's proclaimed uses. You are correct that LLMs are pretty good at…
> To be fair, Brendan Eich was making a scripting language for the 90's web. He was, and he doesn't deserve the full blame for being bad at designing a language when that wasn't his prior job or field of specialization.…
> Also OpenAI in no way has a monopoly of the kind that Visa/MC has. I think this is misreading how literal the comparison is meant to be; Sherwood's running a bunch of "OpenAI is X" articles today. This is not about…
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A piece of advice: Avoid using general and indirect terms like "Them" when referring to the state of Israel and/or it's government. Antisemites deliberately use such language to conflate the Israeli government with the…
> Consider that the alternative to reading the summary often isn't reading the entire text yourself. It's reading nothing. Having no information is always preferable to having wrong information.
There's a fundamental problem with all these "summary" tasks, and it's obvious from the disclaimer that's on all these AI products: "AI can be wrong, you must verify this". A summary for which you must always read the…
> If you care then you'll fact check before publishing. Doing a proper fact check is as much work as doing the entire research by hand, and therefore, this system is useless to anyone who cares about the result being…
> The proof is in the fact that it flies, not what it is constructed from. And LLMs do not. > "But it looks like reasoning to me" My condolences. You should go see a doctor about your inability to count the number of…
> The employer sets the terms of the interview. If you don’t like them, don’t apply. What you're missing here is that this is an individual's answer to a systemic problem. You don't apply when it's _one_ obnoxious…
> It isn't banned Yet. They have clearly voiced their desire for this. > it just won't be state funded. This isn't just "The government is not funding research into this", this is the government maintaining a list of…
> Your stereotypes belie a lack of familiarity with researchers I was referencing what the current Trump administration deems "meritocratic" and seeks to "return" to, their policy changes are in direct response and…
>Why should somebody researching e.g. fusion for the Department of Energy also need to create a Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research (PIER) plan, to even apply? Why? Because a homogenous culture of researchers is…
Their way of squaring this circle has always been to whine about "AI safety". (the cultish doomsday shit, not actual harms from AI) Sam Altman will proclaim that he alone is qualified to build AI and that everyone else…
What the claimed motivation is does not matter; the order is gone in it's entirity now. Frankly, it's just conservatives using "affirmative action" as a buzzword, because it really doesn't describe affirmative action as…
If you're a federal contractor: Congratulations you can now be discriminated against on the grounds of "race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin" And as a reminder to the…
> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President. "Engaging in political censorship of their platform in favour of the President" is a little more than being "friendly". Free Speech in the US is dying.…
> What if instead it was possible to feed the bots clearly damaging and harmfull content? With all respect, you're completely misunderstanding the scope of AI companies' misbehaviour. These scrapers already gleefully…
> (Otherwise we'd just be doing that already.) Not quite what the original commenter meant but: WE ARE. A major consequence of this reckless AI scraping is that it turbocharged the move away from the web and into closed…
> I don't think that's true for their VR/MR hardware. They literally record the cameras and 'screen', then send it off to their servers. The VR hardware absolutely spies on you. Even if you tell it not to, it still…
> Under copyleft you pay for free code with more code You do not. There is nothing in the GPL that mandates you contribute. You can simply use the software as-is, and never contribute. Sit on your hands when there's a…
> So it's Free as in speech, not as in beer. See how in my comment I use 4 synonyms for "free", including "gratis"? That was not just trying to sound cool. That was trying (and evidently, failing, given you're not the…
> They've just legally given up all the coercive options, so the only tool left is complaint My previous comment on this was unclear. The very act of complaining about it betrays the idea that it's "freedom". Either…
Public transit companies that make tickets explicitly free and then get upset nobody pays them would get laughed out the room for bemoaning "free-riders". It may be a "technically correct" use of the word, but it's not…
Different tasks then? If you are using VLMs in the context of medical imaging, I have concerns. That is not a place to use hallucinatory AI. But yes, the transformer model itself isn't useless. It's the application of…
> Anyone who says AI is useless Most of those people are a bit bad at making their case. What they mean but don't convey well is that AI is useless for it's proclaimed uses. You are correct that LLMs are pretty good at…
> To be fair, Brendan Eich was making a scripting language for the 90's web. He was, and he doesn't deserve the full blame for being bad at designing a language when that wasn't his prior job or field of specialization.…
> Also OpenAI in no way has a monopoly of the kind that Visa/MC has. I think this is misreading how literal the comparison is meant to be; Sherwood's running a bunch of "OpenAI is X" articles today. This is not about…
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A piece of advice: Avoid using general and indirect terms like "Them" when referring to the state of Israel and/or it's government. Antisemites deliberately use such language to conflate the Israeli government with the…
> Consider that the alternative to reading the summary often isn't reading the entire text yourself. It's reading nothing. Having no information is always preferable to having wrong information.
There's a fundamental problem with all these "summary" tasks, and it's obvious from the disclaimer that's on all these AI products: "AI can be wrong, you must verify this". A summary for which you must always read the…