coliveira

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Data Scientist. Interests: algorithms, optimization. https://carlosoliveira290416.substack.com
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Comment · 1 day ago
Every company in the world feels "safe" in sending their proprietary code, design documents, and business strategy into a black box that learns from all that and returns code and text, which is used sometimes even without revision.

If people are so simple minded they cannot see the downsides for everyone here, except the ones controlling the black box, then I don't know what to say.

Comment · 1 day ago
The is the obvious question anyone should ask when it comes to assets, but of course its not something that interests those pushing for blockchain-based solutions.
Comment · 5 days ago
Why? Nature doesn't care if people are making financial transactions based on flawed cryptography.
Comment · 13 days ago
You said it correctly: augmenting, not as a main solution, because of what I said above.
Comment · 14 days ago
The reason is quite simple, American corporations know they cannot depend on models developed in China; not because they're bad or lower quality models, but because they know their government can ban these models any time they want. It's an implicit assumption that every company knows to be true.
Comment · 16 days ago
I would answer to this that the mathematicians (humans) are the ones who give any meaning to mathematical discoveries. If we don't have mathematicians anymore, the result is that AI can find whatever they want, but 99% of that will be useless waste. Outside of practical applications, the only reason most mathematical results have any interest is that lots of mathematicians spend time trying to find their solution. Once humans stop caring, mathematics done in an automated fashion will also stop having any value, other than its possible use in finding solutions to existing engineering problems.
Comment · 16 days ago
No, you don't work w/ a fleet of agents, you use them to do your work.

This is a general issue that is being forced on us by AI companies; AI is not a human being, it is a tool that we can use to do things. We don't have them as coworkers or subordinates, they're objects specialized in language processing. Thinking otherwise leads people to all kinds of existential and psychological issues that in the end make no sense.

Comment · 17 days ago
Your comparison doesn't hold. ASML depends on components owned by the US, but US companies also depend on components created only by ASML. It is a mutual dependency. It doesn't imply that Dutch police should go around doing the bidding of a foreign government. This is much worse and should be protested.
Comment · 17 days ago
Every bitcoin in existence will eventually be hacked. It's just a matter of time.
Comment · 18 days ago
A nasty and rare bug can and will be exploited once it is found. The only thing necessary is for malicious actors to start adding this case in innocent looking code and there you have.
Comment · 21 days ago
He wouldn't have this net worth if he ever had a spine. Mind you, he's very tough to people under him, and that's a very important characteristic of this kind of people, but he really doesn't have a spine.
Comment · 21 days ago
A major problem we have is that computer programming is not engineering as people like to say. An engineering discipline VALUES redundancy and is always designing for safety. Programming likes to think of itself as math, and deliberately choses less redundancy for the sake of convenience and speed. The classical example is how operating systems are written with languages that allow an index to be out of bounds. We now have systems that are glued together using bubble gum pretending to be safe, when they fail in the most horrible way when one of the links break.
Comment · 24 days ago
That's what you get when the bulk of open source is now depending on Microsoft.
Comment · 24 days ago
Ok, so basically using Open AI models for research is a joke, the only thing you're doing is furnishing Open AI with more data that they'll use internally to pretend they found the results.
Comment · 25 days ago
Yes, I suspect this is true. Otherwise it makes no sense they have somehow "found" so many important results while professional mathematicians can't direct the same AI to help them find anything of substance.

Another possibility is that they have internal versions of the model with access to training data that is not provided to external users.

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