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Output can appear logical without the model actually applying formal logic. If its training has associated tools with wood, and sharp edges with splitting, then a prompt containing those ideas can make “use a sharp-edged tool to split wood” a likely continuation even if that exact combination never appeared in training.

By asking follow-up questions and establishing an in-context vocabulary, users can steer output toward a more complete description. For example, “Let’s call that tool and ‘axe’. How might I hold it?”; the model’s learned associations with holding sharp knives carefully can make “by the handle, with the blade facing away from you” a likely response.

I’m confident you could arrive at a near perfect description of an axe this way without any references or depictions of an axe in the training data. I’d imagine the same applies to many cybsecurity/cyber offense concepts (but probably not all).

Lots of art stores (not just chains) have them. Not as much variety as Amazon, but still.

Some supermarkets in the US (and maybe other places, but can’t speak on those) give department-level managers control over the fridge temps in their department, as well as task them with routine monitoring. From my experience, they do generally have remote assess for both reading current temps and adjusting them, since decisions on where to put certain product (with various temperature requirements) are often made on the fly.

But the evolution isn’t necessarily the important part, it’s the two parts having separate development processes in modern day humans that is notable.

To be fair, it’s a fair assessment. Superhero movies like that are a defining feature of the last two decades, with titles and plots worsening at an exponential rate. Not that prior decades lacked superheroes. They just used to be less superficial.

I’ve lived on both sides of this in different areas of the US. Overall I’d say there’s a lot of places that have what you’ve described, but there are many that don’t, even in more urban locations. Sometimes roads lack sidewalks, parks/skateparks/etc close for repairs but never reopen, local events stop getting funded for one reason or another, or high crime rates make people weary about leaving patio furniture out. All of those contribute to a lack of stable third spaces and associated connections with people.

Other countries have similar issues, of course, but often (not always) they have more cultural factors keeping third spaces alive. In my experience traveling Europe and Africa, community and familial ties generally have a more active role, so there’s just more opportunities for stable third places to develop. It’s not that the spaces are different, imo, but they do seem more common.

Lambda has 1mil free requests per month, so there’s a chance it would be free depending on your usage. But still, it’s not straightforward at all, so I get it.

Perhaps requiring support for bill capping is the right way to go, but honestly I don’t see why providers don’t compete at all here. Customers would flock to any platform with something like “You set a budget and uptime requirements, we’ll figure out what needs to be done”, with some sort of managed auto-adjustment and a guarantee of no overage charges.

Ah well, one can only dream.

I also don’t know for certain, but I’d assume they only cache AI responses at an (at most) regional level, and only for a fairly short timeframe depending on the kind of site. They already had mechanisms for detecting changes and updating their global search index quickly. The AI stuff likely relies mostly on that existing system.

This seems more like a model-specific issue, where it’s consistently generating flawed output every time the cache gets invalid. If that’s the case, there’s not much Google can do on a case-by-case level, but we should see improvements over time as the model gets incrementally better / it becomes more financially viable to run better models at this scale.

In the U.S. at least (obviously not the same everywhere), fair use doesn’t necessarily require your work to be transformative. It’s one of several aspects that gets considered, albeit a fairly significant one in many cases. Downloading books/research articles/pirated works in general wouldn’t be fair use as the purpose of the act (obtaining a book to read) directly impacts the market for the work (selling books). There could still exceptions in some cases, mostly related to teaching I’d imagine.

Thanks, good to know. Their page on BigQuery is very misleading.

I took their meaning to be that we should keep looking into the whole matter since, either way, there might be more evidence to find. I don’t think they were dismissing this theory or its implications for political/ideological reasons—since they mentioned it seems plausible—but I could be naive.

In any case, clearly the prevailing understanding is wrong in one way or another, and that should be reflected in curriculums alongside this new evidence.