RockyMcNuts

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Comment · 4 months ago
You're the man now, dog!
Comment · 7 months ago
Could be interesting to chart quality of responses, toxicity/health of conversations, sentiment over time, impact of release of ChatGPT.

(since AI can now answer many questions that might have been topics of conversation; people can use AI to participate; people may be reluctant to participate if AI can data mine everything and link it back to them, etc. similar to Stack Overflow)

Comment · 10 months ago
there is light alignment, like throwing nasty things out of the training data, and there is strong alignment, like China providing a test with 2000 questions that an AI must answer non-problematically 95% of the time.

there is no such thing as an AI that is not somehow implicitly aligned with the values of its creator, that is completely objective, unbiased in any way. there is no perfect view from nowhere. if you take a perfectly accurate photo, you have still chosen how to compose it and which photo to put in your record.

are you going to decide to 'censor' responses to kids, or about real people who might have libel interests, or abusive deepfake videos of real women?

if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

ofc it's obvious that Musk's 'maximally truth-seeking AI' is bad faith buffoonery, but at some level everyone is going to tilt their AI.

the distinction is between people who are self-aware and go out of their way to tilt it as little as possible, and as mindfully, deliberately, intentionally and methodically as possible and only when they have to, vs. people who lie about it or pretend tilting it is not actually a thing.

contra Feynman, you are always going to fool yourself a little but there is a duty to try to do it as little as possible, and not make a complete fool of yourself.

Comment · 1 year ago
OpenAI should probably consider:

- enabling local MCP in Desktop like Claude Desktop, not just server-side remote. (I don't think you can run a local server unless you expose it to their IP)

- having an MCP store where you can click on e.g. Figma to connect your account and start talking to it

- letting you easily connect to your own Agents SDK MCP servers deployed in their cloud

ChatGPT MCP support is underwhelming compared to Claude Desktop.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Why don't the labels on the points match the scale?

Looks like a chart crime scene

Comment · 1 year ago
When you stack transformers, don't you get meta-attention and higher mental states?
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
interesting! have PP but haven't flown really last couple of decades.

I feel like, with proper UX in the cockpit and on the controller console, making it easy to send/acknowledge the clearance, and intrusively demanding immediate acknowledgment for important messages, with the controller able to talk to the pilot if it isn't immediately acknowledged, structured messages would save time, be more accurate, allow automated checks, i.e. be a superior substitute.

UX needs a ton of work and human factors validation, and would take 20 years to implement. But if you were starting from a blank slate it seems like the way to go!

Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe the future is structured electronic messaging with the humans in the loop.

Like, check in with the controller but most messages are sent electronically and acknowledged manually.

I have your clearance, advise when ready to copy, then you write everything down on kneeboard with a pencil and then manually put it in the navigation system, is a little archaic.

certainly speech to text is a useful transition but in the long run the controller could click on an aircraft and issue the next clearance with a keyboard shortcut. then the pilot would get a visual and auditory alert in the cockpit and click to acknowledge.

I would hope someone at NASA or DARPA or somewhere is working on it. And then of course the system can detect conflicts, an aircraft not following the clearance etc.

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Comment · 1 year ago
more as hoverboard, onewheel etc. the e-bikes and e-scooters don't really have similar balancing mechanisms
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Does the community license let companies fine-tune it or retrain it for their use cases?

There are significant restrictions on it so it's not fully open-source, but maybe it's only a real problem for Google and OpenAI and Microsoft.

Open source has turned into a game of, what's the most commercial value I can retain, while still calling it open-source and benefiting from the trust and marketing value of the 'open source' branding.

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