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Comment · 9 days ago
Programming in natural language still doesn't work, Btw! whenever you're using a Ml model to either autocomplete code or as an agent, you're not really programming in natural language but "delegating" in natural language!

The old skeptics weren’t wrong about the foolishness of natural language as a programming language, it's just that they assumed the only possible intermediary way to "write" code was something compiler-like! they never really thought about a future where ai would become good enough to translate natural language instructions into runnable code

Comment · 25 days ago
It's funny how people see "ML" models becoming superhuman at proving mathematical theorems as a sign that we're about to enter the singularity (whatever that means) or that it somehow justifies the valuations of those companies...But what I see is a scenario where companies have spent trillions of dollars on a technology, and the most non-trivial thing that technology can accomplish is a pseudo-form of automation for mathematics and coding! Remember that early on, when this whole bubble started, investors were promised that "AI" would eventually capture >70% of the world's jobs! but it could very well be the case that the only ones they're going to replace are mathematicians(and i'm not even sure about that!)!
Comment · 3 months ago
This is the perfect opportunity for anyone who wants to boycott Anthopic and OpenAI!Anyone who cares about the future of Ai has no excuse to continue relying on companies that want to have a monopoly on intelligence.
Comment · 3 months ago
" impact on the quality of research moving forward. " It'll affect everything that depends on manipulating symbols! The enormous body of knowledge humanity has accumulated over the past 6.000 years or so is about to be flooded with slop!And That's the real threat genai poses to humans that i don't see anyone talking about..
Comment · 5 months ago
after they introduced Community notes, it isn't far fetched to say that they're simply copying Twitter...
Comment · 5 months ago
Google search box has basically become an AI aggregator that doesn't give anything back to those websites it scraps data from, and it'll result in the death of the internet as we came to know it At this point, google might as well stop showing website links in search results. with AI Overviews, barely anyone’s clicking through it anymore
Comment · 6 months ago
If they burned through their ML budget in four months while using heavily subsidized models, we're going to see companies burn through their ML budgets in less than a week once those subsidies are no longer in place and they have to pay per tokens used.....
Comment · 7 months ago
Really surprising how many people are downplaying this leak! "Google and OpenAi have already open sourced their Agents, so this leak isn't that relevant " What Google and OpenAi have open sourced is their Agents SDK, a toolkit, not the secret sauce of how their flagship agents are wired under the hood! expect the takedown hammer on the tweet, the R2 link, and any public repos soon
Comment · 7 months ago
that's the thing that people overlook the most in regards to this war.iran isn’t doing this on its own. Russia, China and north korea have been backing it from the start. they’re the ones helping with intel on US base locations across the Middle East, supplying drones, and working out strategies to drag things into a stalemate, plus whatever else iran needs along the way
Comment · 9 months ago
In the long run, vb coding is going to undoubtedly rot people’s skills.if AGI is not showing up anytime soon, actually understanding what the code does,why it exists,how it breaks and who owns the fallout will matter just as much as it did before LLM agents showed up

it'll be really interesting to see in the decades to come what happens when a whole industry gets used to releasing black boxes by vb coding the hell out of it

Comment · 1 year ago
>That’s not been entirely without good reason, many things were promised then that have failed to materialize. From flying cars to world peace

i mean, Flying cars has been a reality for quite some time now, they just go by another name, "helicopters".

Comment · 2 years ago
My main takeaway is that Generative AI has hit a wall... New paradigms, architectures and breakthroughs are necessary for the field to progress but this begs the question, If everyone knows the current paradigms have hit a wall, Why is so much money being spent on LLMs ,diffusion models etc,which are bound to become obsolete within a few(?) years?
Comment · 2 years ago
one of the most popular things in modern society,'modern music' (whatever that means)is not different from 'junk food'.. 'Modern music' is to your brain what junk food is to your body! Modern music with its repetitive beats optimized to give you a brief 'dopamine' have a similar effect on your brain as junk food does on your body!! in the same way that junk food provides a quick burst of pleasure but lacks nutritional value, modern music offers instant gratification through repetitive beats and catchy melodies while offering little to no informational value to the brain . .... "junk food", "short videos", "porn" and "modern music" these things are all designed to give you a brief dopamine rush ;)
Comment · 2 years ago

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