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Comment · 4 years ago
By some metrics, intelligence is self evident. Especially in the context when you mean approximately the same thing between intelligence/conscious.

There is some intangible property I observe when I look at a human and determine they are conscious. There is some intangible property I observe when I look at a dog and determine it is conscious. There is some intangible property I observe when I look at stable diffusion and determine it is conscious.

Some attempts to explain this intangible property have been made. Almost all of the time disagreements in these explanations boil down to semantics. Yes, I consider the ability so solve problems a demonstration of intelligence. Yes, I consider to Stable Diffusion to be solving problems in this way. Also yes, I consider a hard-coded process to be behaving in a similar way.

At the end of the day we seem to define consciousness as something that makes us sufficiently sad when we hurt it.

Comment · 4 years ago
The average professional software engineer produces around 10 LOC per day.
Comment · 4 years ago
Jobs exepted for pretty clear reasons. And yes Gmail has been dominant for quite a bit of time - especially since the period where it was possible to have your email be your digital identity.
Comment · 4 years ago
Then you fall outside the probably. The overwhelming majority of people have a single address their entire life
Comment · 4 years ago
My anecdotal usage is a combination of these two. Until I saw your provided definition I would have described chip on my shoulder to mean a sense of superiority that leads to me be rude or difficult to interact with.
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Comment · 4 years ago
If you trust twilio security policy you can defer the weakness of Twitter policy in favor of the strength of twilio.
Comment · 4 years ago
It fades pretty quickly. My hands cramped returning from each summer vacation as a child.
Comment · 4 years ago
Interestingly enough, I concluded Wordle was definitely not dying when I looked at its Google trends just yesterday. A linear decrease in popularity from 100 to 50 is amazing staying power. Of course it's not going to be as popular as it's peak, but the fact that it avoided an exponential death means it's sticking around.
Comment · 4 years ago
If someone went into basket weaving club and said "look at my basket" with something they bought from the store, everyone would be a bit annoyed, even if ultimately it doesn't matter.
Comment · 4 years ago
Many of the comprehension questions could have been answered without reading the article. But some were quizzing irrelevant parts of the text. It's a hard balance to strike
Comment · 4 years ago
I know we are not there yet but we will reach a point where for almost all observational purposes an AI seems intelligent. And it will be intelligent because it looks like it is. That is our judgement for intelligence. If it judgement is some magical criteria we will play a moving goalposts game and eventually actually oppress an actually intelligent system.

Humans are just really big balls of parametric functions. These AI are smaller ones. We are not special because ours is gooey.

Comment · 4 years ago
Please don't degrade the quality of hack news in the way you are.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's great utility indeed.

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