I can imagine that one of the aspects of being social creatures is that we are drawn to the entropy/surprise factor of natural language produced by a brain that isn't our own. Deriving a shared understanding without…
Obviously the kid would choose the colorful modern game over some ancient NES game. They would literally choose one of those weird phone games you see crazy ads for over Super Mario Bros.
> "minecraft in skyrim" is cool for about 10 seconds till you think about actually sitting down to play it. Yeah, it is kinda wild how the infinitude of possibility suddenly makes everything so dull.
> And the thing is, it's not the technology itself, which could be used to produce meaningful art. Exactly. I am not de-facto against the use of AI in art. But artful use of the medium is sparse at the moment.
> movies are going to become video games and video games are going to become something unimaginably better God what an annoying thing to say. Suggesting that movies will essentially become games, or that future video…
100%. And a corollary being that without any time spent on the "mundane", almost every single aspect of the work becomes the genuinely consequential decision-making steps. Which I find exhausting.
I completely understand where you're coming from. While understanding the math and architectures of these large models can be edifying, it lacks some of the liberating/empowering spirit of traditional software. You can…
"The agent could write refund code all day long. What it can’t do is decide what your company owes a customer whose card has expired..." In 2031: Why on earth not?
These are good points, though OP did specifically say that Meta is going to win "consumer" AI. I don't think the average consumer of AI is going to ever have to think about harnesses or worry about SOTA, they really…
The following certainly does not describe all mathematics or all LLM operations, but its my mental model for why LLMs are so effective in several fields. Lots of mathematics entails recognizing that a tool/techniques…
Huh. I guess I don't agree that this would at all characterize Tao's relationship with AI. I haven't read a single thing from him to suggest that he is "seething" over AI's remarkable capabilities. In fact he's a…
I replied to a different comment on my explanation about why I do not perceive Tao as a gatekeeper; in short that his current beat seems to be entirely about expanding understanding and access to math by improving the…
I was not familiar with the mathathon, and I suppose I am ignorant of the circumstances in which Tao allegedly bullied students into changing the event. I don't personally have any reason to doubt the veracity of the…
I also work in drug discovery, and I completely agree; the extent to which the actual causal mechanisms of the efficacy of many drugs is woefully short of some human-appreciable first-principles based explanation. The…
"If every product is used by an agent driving a CLI, what’s going to differentiate Basecamp or Fizzy from the cheapest alternative?" At that point, why even bother with "driving a CLI"? I have a hard time seeing how…
I imagine a good model of the brain would contribute enormously to alleviating psychiatric/mental health disorders.
What's the tell? It doesn't seem AI generated to me but I may not be a great judge.
I don't think the quality of discussion about social media suffers from lack of specification. Whether or not you consider HN to be social media, or wherever your decision boundary is, doesn't change that most of the…
I use the firefox extension "Unhook" to completely hide suggested content on Youtube. Really effective, I kindof can't believe how much time I spent getting suckered into watching video essays that absolutely did not…
Just to be clear, your comment had a general statement about how you perceived the motivations of "people buying vinyl". That's what I was responding to. (People using VHS filters on social media is by definition social…
There are plenty of people who sincerely enjoy the aspects that make older tech less convenient or practical. Maybe it's an appreciation for the engineering or "comprehensibility," often it's because older tech produces…
Not asking adversarially at all here: what do you mean by resisting with "real numbers" without media campaigns, social media, or protesting? What do the vested parties actually do to secure their second amendment…
Author really should have figured out a better word than "vanity."
It looks to me like OpenAI's image pipeline takes an image as input, derives the semantic details, and then essentially regenerates an entirely new image based on the "description" obtained from the input image. Even…
You must not end up reading much scientific literature then.
I can imagine that one of the aspects of being social creatures is that we are drawn to the entropy/surprise factor of natural language produced by a brain that isn't our own. Deriving a shared understanding without…
Obviously the kid would choose the colorful modern game over some ancient NES game. They would literally choose one of those weird phone games you see crazy ads for over Super Mario Bros.
> "minecraft in skyrim" is cool for about 10 seconds till you think about actually sitting down to play it. Yeah, it is kinda wild how the infinitude of possibility suddenly makes everything so dull.
> And the thing is, it's not the technology itself, which could be used to produce meaningful art. Exactly. I am not de-facto against the use of AI in art. But artful use of the medium is sparse at the moment.
> movies are going to become video games and video games are going to become something unimaginably better God what an annoying thing to say. Suggesting that movies will essentially become games, or that future video…
100%. And a corollary being that without any time spent on the "mundane", almost every single aspect of the work becomes the genuinely consequential decision-making steps. Which I find exhausting.
I completely understand where you're coming from. While understanding the math and architectures of these large models can be edifying, it lacks some of the liberating/empowering spirit of traditional software. You can…
"The agent could write refund code all day long. What it can’t do is decide what your company owes a customer whose card has expired..." In 2031: Why on earth not?
These are good points, though OP did specifically say that Meta is going to win "consumer" AI. I don't think the average consumer of AI is going to ever have to think about harnesses or worry about SOTA, they really…
The following certainly does not describe all mathematics or all LLM operations, but its my mental model for why LLMs are so effective in several fields. Lots of mathematics entails recognizing that a tool/techniques…
Huh. I guess I don't agree that this would at all characterize Tao's relationship with AI. I haven't read a single thing from him to suggest that he is "seething" over AI's remarkable capabilities. In fact he's a…
I replied to a different comment on my explanation about why I do not perceive Tao as a gatekeeper; in short that his current beat seems to be entirely about expanding understanding and access to math by improving the…
I was not familiar with the mathathon, and I suppose I am ignorant of the circumstances in which Tao allegedly bullied students into changing the event. I don't personally have any reason to doubt the veracity of the…
I also work in drug discovery, and I completely agree; the extent to which the actual causal mechanisms of the efficacy of many drugs is woefully short of some human-appreciable first-principles based explanation. The…
"If every product is used by an agent driving a CLI, what’s going to differentiate Basecamp or Fizzy from the cheapest alternative?" At that point, why even bother with "driving a CLI"? I have a hard time seeing how…
I imagine a good model of the brain would contribute enormously to alleviating psychiatric/mental health disorders.
What's the tell? It doesn't seem AI generated to me but I may not be a great judge.
I don't think the quality of discussion about social media suffers from lack of specification. Whether or not you consider HN to be social media, or wherever your decision boundary is, doesn't change that most of the…
I use the firefox extension "Unhook" to completely hide suggested content on Youtube. Really effective, I kindof can't believe how much time I spent getting suckered into watching video essays that absolutely did not…
Just to be clear, your comment had a general statement about how you perceived the motivations of "people buying vinyl". That's what I was responding to. (People using VHS filters on social media is by definition social…
There are plenty of people who sincerely enjoy the aspects that make older tech less convenient or practical. Maybe it's an appreciation for the engineering or "comprehensibility," often it's because older tech produces…
Not asking adversarially at all here: what do you mean by resisting with "real numbers" without media campaigns, social media, or protesting? What do the vested parties actually do to secure their second amendment…
Author really should have figured out a better word than "vanity."
It looks to me like OpenAI's image pipeline takes an image as input, derives the semantic details, and then essentially regenerates an entirely new image based on the "description" obtained from the input image. Even…
You must not end up reading much scientific literature then.