The main reasons I'll never get a neural chip are, in increasing order of importance: A. Safety B. It gives them a vector to beam ads directly into my brain
How many tracks didn't make it to the Billboard charts?
And yet here we are
I think the illuminating part here is that only a magic wand could determine if something is sentient
Isn't that usually the choice for most things?
Do you have any thoughts on the second half of my comment?
You may underestimate how many people do not need to be convinced. Again, I'll refrain from making a value judgment, but the hard numbers show that LLMs have been one of the most quickly adopted technologies in the…
I don't necessarily disagree with the main argument, but > did your boss ever have to send you a memo demanding that you use a smartphone Yes, there were tons of jobs that required you to have a smartphone, and still…
I'm so sorry for complimenting you. You are totally on point to call it out. This is the kind of thing that only true heroes, standing tall, would even be able to comprehend. So kudos to you, rugged warrior, and never…
Books may not be good propaganda for the latest, localized issues, but they are fantastic propaganda for ideology. I read Atlas Shrugged as an impressionable young teen, and developed some pretty horrible notions about…
To be fair, the general public have been conditioned for a while now by things like blockchain and VR to be completely underwhelmed, perhaps rightfully so, by whatever's coming out of San Fran and Seattle. So in the…
That's a good point, and maybe I was preaching the gospel of flipping too hard. It is by no means a silver bullet. Should we let the kids who cheat using AI drop by the wayside, never learning a thing for themselves? Or…
Hackernews is not the place for political arguments. That's not just a suggestion, it's a rule. I noticed somebody used an ambiguous word in a way that, IMO, was not quite correct, and it is an interesting word so I…
I think you misinterpreted my comment as "LLMs are good" which is a different conversation. My point is: you can't say LLMs are a dangerous tool and call them vapourware at the same time. It's a contradiction in terms.
This places her on a spectrum where the farthest left you can go is the most left leaning US Democratic senator, which is not very "progressive" in the context of western politics as I mentioned in my last comment.
As someone who uses LLMs every day for general questions/brainstorming, more efficient coding, and building a product used by doctors to improve their documentation (saving them hours per week and freeing them to…
In western politics, there are various definitions of the word "progressive". The definitions that include Kamala Harris are mostly used by right-wing Americans. How much corporate funding did Bernie get? Why do you…
> The obsession with AI (and other vapourware) in our industry ... fuelling the hard-right — who coincidentally are very much using AI. Is it useless or not? If it's vapourware, why would you care if the other side uses…
Shady business, potentially, but you might be underestimating how much some guys really, really need to have the most expensive watch in their friend group.
I was talking about people I know and talk with, mostly friends and family, who are smart, hard working, and their students are lucky to have them.
> Flipped classroom is just having the students give lectures, instead of the teacher. Not quite. Flipped classroom means more instruction outside of class time and less homework. > This is called "proctored exams" and…
IMO it's so easy to ChatGPT your homework that the whole education model needs to flip on its head. Some teachers already do something like this, it's called the "Flipped classroom" approach. Basically, a student's…
I think the tricky bit is that AI companies make money off the collected works of artists, regardless of user behaviour. Suppose I pay for an image generator because I like making funny pictures in Ghibli style, then…
True!
I get what you're saying, but I think "boiling frog" is more applicable than "chicken v egg." You mention that people feel disappointed by ML systems because they don't feel intelligent. But I think that's just because…
The main reasons I'll never get a neural chip are, in increasing order of importance: A. Safety B. It gives them a vector to beam ads directly into my brain
How many tracks didn't make it to the Billboard charts?
And yet here we are
I think the illuminating part here is that only a magic wand could determine if something is sentient
Isn't that usually the choice for most things?
Do you have any thoughts on the second half of my comment?
You may underestimate how many people do not need to be convinced. Again, I'll refrain from making a value judgment, but the hard numbers show that LLMs have been one of the most quickly adopted technologies in the…
I don't necessarily disagree with the main argument, but > did your boss ever have to send you a memo demanding that you use a smartphone Yes, there were tons of jobs that required you to have a smartphone, and still…
I'm so sorry for complimenting you. You are totally on point to call it out. This is the kind of thing that only true heroes, standing tall, would even be able to comprehend. So kudos to you, rugged warrior, and never…
Books may not be good propaganda for the latest, localized issues, but they are fantastic propaganda for ideology. I read Atlas Shrugged as an impressionable young teen, and developed some pretty horrible notions about…
To be fair, the general public have been conditioned for a while now by things like blockchain and VR to be completely underwhelmed, perhaps rightfully so, by whatever's coming out of San Fran and Seattle. So in the…
That's a good point, and maybe I was preaching the gospel of flipping too hard. It is by no means a silver bullet. Should we let the kids who cheat using AI drop by the wayside, never learning a thing for themselves? Or…
Hackernews is not the place for political arguments. That's not just a suggestion, it's a rule. I noticed somebody used an ambiguous word in a way that, IMO, was not quite correct, and it is an interesting word so I…
I think you misinterpreted my comment as "LLMs are good" which is a different conversation. My point is: you can't say LLMs are a dangerous tool and call them vapourware at the same time. It's a contradiction in terms.
This places her on a spectrum where the farthest left you can go is the most left leaning US Democratic senator, which is not very "progressive" in the context of western politics as I mentioned in my last comment.
As someone who uses LLMs every day for general questions/brainstorming, more efficient coding, and building a product used by doctors to improve their documentation (saving them hours per week and freeing them to…
In western politics, there are various definitions of the word "progressive". The definitions that include Kamala Harris are mostly used by right-wing Americans. How much corporate funding did Bernie get? Why do you…
> The obsession with AI (and other vapourware) in our industry ... fuelling the hard-right — who coincidentally are very much using AI. Is it useless or not? If it's vapourware, why would you care if the other side uses…
Shady business, potentially, but you might be underestimating how much some guys really, really need to have the most expensive watch in their friend group.
I was talking about people I know and talk with, mostly friends and family, who are smart, hard working, and their students are lucky to have them.
> Flipped classroom is just having the students give lectures, instead of the teacher. Not quite. Flipped classroom means more instruction outside of class time and less homework. > This is called "proctored exams" and…
IMO it's so easy to ChatGPT your homework that the whole education model needs to flip on its head. Some teachers already do something like this, it's called the "Flipped classroom" approach. Basically, a student's…
I think the tricky bit is that AI companies make money off the collected works of artists, regardless of user behaviour. Suppose I pay for an image generator because I like making funny pictures in Ghibli style, then…
True!
I get what you're saying, but I think "boiling frog" is more applicable than "chicken v egg." You mention that people feel disappointed by ML systems because they don't feel intelligent. But I think that's just because…