Pulcinella
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Comment · 1 month ago
The iPhone keyboard "intelligent" tap target size is independent of autocorrect, however, and you can't turn it off or adjust it's behavior.
Comment · 1 month ago
And sharing of scientific information, the original purpose of the web, is largely done using PDFs rather than HTML documents. Truly a big mess.
Comment · 1 month ago
Focus instead on attribution. Yes, OpenAI took the last tiny step in the process of solving this problem (= proving it). But it cannot attribute credit to all the mathematicians whose chat logs from the past few months were fed into its training data. Unlike a human, it can't even remember where it learned things from!
In my mind, this makes it unfit to deserve any credit at all -- it cannot give credit to others, so it deserves no credit itself. It took the last tiny step, but certainly not any of the important ones.
Yes I fear a lot of doom and gloom around AI is unearned and only really serves to prop up the valuation of AI companies. It's still very much unclear how much work OpenAI actually did versus just copying the nearly complete homework of someone 5 minutes earlier.
Comment · 1 month ago
Do you not log the training data? Seems like you should be able to just check what was in the training data. To not keep track is just sloppy work and certainly unprofessional science.
Comment · 2 months ago
No it's the government deciding what you are and are not allowed to say in your grant.
Comment · 2 months ago
the mention of which can now result in research grants or other agreements with the federal government getting nixed.
That sounds like censorship to me.
Comment · 3 months ago
"Exert some willpower!"
People exert willpower through the democratically elected legislature
"No not like that!"
Comment · 8 months ago
Go a little further. Think about "how." How do slot machines get people to waste their money for hours-on-end? How does TikTok use short-form video to get people to scroll for hours-on-end? What is the mechanism?
Comment · 8 months ago
Counterpoint: The format is bad. The constant stream of videos, skipping between videos at (relatively) your own pace, the anticipation about the next video; it's similar to electronic gambling machines.