This is where you are confused - in fact just plain wrong: A symbol is a discrete sign that has some sort of symbol table (explicit or not) describing the mapping of the sign to the intended interpretation Symbols do…
If you look at my comment history you will see that I don't think LLMs are nearly as intelligent as rats or pigeons. Rats and pigeons have an intuitive understanding of quantity and LLMs do not. I don't know what "the…
"Making predictions about the world" is a reductive and childish way to describe intelligence in humans. Did David Lynch make Mulholland Drive because he predicted it would be a good movie? The most depressing thing…
Keep in mind that we also have no clue how general anesthesia works! It's not just psychiatry, many medications targeting the nervous system (e.g. muscle relaxants) have unknown mechanisms of action…
Inner ear is a great example! I mentioned in another comment that if you want to be reductive the sensors in the inner ear - the hairs themselves - are one dimensional, but the overall sense is directly three…
Human perception is not 2D, touch and proprioception[1] are three-dimensional senses. And of course it really makes more sense to say human perception is 3+1-dimensional since we perceive the passage of time. [1]…
I don't think "so isolated he turned to a chatbot for validation" describes this, or why people get unhealthily attached to chatbots. 1) The man became severely mentally ill in middle age, and he lived with his mother…
Unlike the other misreading, I think you are splitting hairs about something boring and irritating. Rephrase the problem instead to "you have a reliable device that can tell whether the family has at least one daughter…
This intuition is wrong even if turned out to get the right answer. The three unordered options do not have equal probabilities, boy+girl is twice as likely to occur as boy+boy and girl+girl. To get the right answer you…
Humans have been staying up late next to a bright light (fire) for longer than we've been Homo sapiens. Considering humans have unique physiological adaptations to smoke (heavy tear and mucus production) I think it's…
It sounds to me like Google is moving to a more typical "technical lead" model where leads have substantial authority and some mentorship responsibilities, but they're essentially an IC and someone else up the chain…
The marks were probably quite faint, and if you ask a multimodal LLM "can you see that big mark on my neck?" it will frequently say "yes" even if your neck doesn't have a mark on it.
I think the "encouraging someone to take a non-criminal action" angle is weakened in cases like this: the person is obviously mentally ill and not able to make good decisions. "Obvious" is important, it has to be clear…
I think it's fine to be "morally absolutist" when it's non-medical technology, developed with zero input from federal regulators, yet being misused and misleadingly marketed for medical purposes.
Is there something specific you are referring to? I haven't played any of the non-Nintendo Switch 2 ports, but the reviews haven't suggested widespread performance problems. What is true is that (for example) Split…
I wonder if part of this is that the Switch 1 was hurt by Unity/etc slop and lazy AAA ports, so Nintendo wants to manage that better for the Switch 2. The Switch 2 doesn't have many games but it is also refreshingly…
It does seem like it helps with math, but in a way that demonstrates the futility of the enterprise: "after training the LLM on 10,000,000 examples of K-8 arithmetic it is now superhuman up to 12 digits, after which it…
I just don't understand being so cynical and lazy that you'll accept a meaningfully higher chance of being misinformed if it saves a few minutes of searching and reading[1]. Nobody is that busy. [1] If the search takes…
My comment was sarcastic.
I am less interested in questioning training data corruption than I am in questioning claims like this: test reasoning abilities such as pattern recognition, lateral thinking, abstraction, contextual reasoning…
Not quite true, they got in trouble recently for running a Nintendo ad without properly labelling it (until it was pointed out, the video is fixed now): https://youtube.com/watch?v=V10wHzV5zp0 Screenshot of original…
Right but my point was that "given classes of templated in-context examples" is either a) a game of roulette where you hope the LLM provider has RLHFed something very close to your use case, or b) trying to few-shot it…
I know ACM Queue is a non-peer-reviewed magazine for practitioners but this still feels like too much of an advertisement, without any attempt whatsoever to discuss downsides or limitations. This really doesn't inspire…
I don't use it either, but TikTok has real people on it and ChatGPT does not, so it makes sense that people would be more emotional about TikTok.
No, most of programming is at least implicitly coming up with a human-language description of the problem and solution that isn't full of gaps and errors. LLM users often don't give themselves enough credit for how much…
This is where you are confused - in fact just plain wrong: A symbol is a discrete sign that has some sort of symbol table (explicit or not) describing the mapping of the sign to the intended interpretation Symbols do…
If you look at my comment history you will see that I don't think LLMs are nearly as intelligent as rats or pigeons. Rats and pigeons have an intuitive understanding of quantity and LLMs do not. I don't know what "the…
"Making predictions about the world" is a reductive and childish way to describe intelligence in humans. Did David Lynch make Mulholland Drive because he predicted it would be a good movie? The most depressing thing…
Keep in mind that we also have no clue how general anesthesia works! It's not just psychiatry, many medications targeting the nervous system (e.g. muscle relaxants) have unknown mechanisms of action…
Inner ear is a great example! I mentioned in another comment that if you want to be reductive the sensors in the inner ear - the hairs themselves - are one dimensional, but the overall sense is directly three…
Human perception is not 2D, touch and proprioception[1] are three-dimensional senses. And of course it really makes more sense to say human perception is 3+1-dimensional since we perceive the passage of time. [1]…
I don't think "so isolated he turned to a chatbot for validation" describes this, or why people get unhealthily attached to chatbots. 1) The man became severely mentally ill in middle age, and he lived with his mother…
Unlike the other misreading, I think you are splitting hairs about something boring and irritating. Rephrase the problem instead to "you have a reliable device that can tell whether the family has at least one daughter…
This intuition is wrong even if turned out to get the right answer. The three unordered options do not have equal probabilities, boy+girl is twice as likely to occur as boy+boy and girl+girl. To get the right answer you…
Humans have been staying up late next to a bright light (fire) for longer than we've been Homo sapiens. Considering humans have unique physiological adaptations to smoke (heavy tear and mucus production) I think it's…
It sounds to me like Google is moving to a more typical "technical lead" model where leads have substantial authority and some mentorship responsibilities, but they're essentially an IC and someone else up the chain…
The marks were probably quite faint, and if you ask a multimodal LLM "can you see that big mark on my neck?" it will frequently say "yes" even if your neck doesn't have a mark on it.
I think the "encouraging someone to take a non-criminal action" angle is weakened in cases like this: the person is obviously mentally ill and not able to make good decisions. "Obvious" is important, it has to be clear…
I think it's fine to be "morally absolutist" when it's non-medical technology, developed with zero input from federal regulators, yet being misused and misleadingly marketed for medical purposes.
Is there something specific you are referring to? I haven't played any of the non-Nintendo Switch 2 ports, but the reviews haven't suggested widespread performance problems. What is true is that (for example) Split…
I wonder if part of this is that the Switch 1 was hurt by Unity/etc slop and lazy AAA ports, so Nintendo wants to manage that better for the Switch 2. The Switch 2 doesn't have many games but it is also refreshingly…
It does seem like it helps with math, but in a way that demonstrates the futility of the enterprise: "after training the LLM on 10,000,000 examples of K-8 arithmetic it is now superhuman up to 12 digits, after which it…
I just don't understand being so cynical and lazy that you'll accept a meaningfully higher chance of being misinformed if it saves a few minutes of searching and reading[1]. Nobody is that busy. [1] If the search takes…
My comment was sarcastic.
I am less interested in questioning training data corruption than I am in questioning claims like this: test reasoning abilities such as pattern recognition, lateral thinking, abstraction, contextual reasoning…
Not quite true, they got in trouble recently for running a Nintendo ad without properly labelling it (until it was pointed out, the video is fixed now): https://youtube.com/watch?v=V10wHzV5zp0 Screenshot of original…
Right but my point was that "given classes of templated in-context examples" is either a) a game of roulette where you hope the LLM provider has RLHFed something very close to your use case, or b) trying to few-shot it…
I know ACM Queue is a non-peer-reviewed magazine for practitioners but this still feels like too much of an advertisement, without any attempt whatsoever to discuss downsides or limitations. This really doesn't inspire…
I don't use it either, but TikTok has real people on it and ChatGPT does not, so it makes sense that people would be more emotional about TikTok.
No, most of programming is at least implicitly coming up with a human-language description of the problem and solution that isn't full of gaps and errors. LLM users often don't give themselves enough credit for how much…