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So, people who are afraid of losing their livelihoods should be cheering AI companies instead?

I really see no reason to believe whatever anthropic says. Their "Effective Altruism" origins make it absolutelly sure that they will do whatever they can get away with it while denying doing it with their most angelical faces.

AI labs are first research stuff. We see the things that work, but we all know that a lot of stuff in research fails. Nobody publishes their failures.

This is something that requires an ethos completely different from how amazon works and the way jeff bezos sees the world.

I'd recommend those employers to read "The Goal" from Eliyahu M. Goldratt.

By not limiting WIP they are actually making their employees less efficient.

It is just that we never considered how advanced stochastic parrots could be so powerful when dealing with basically the whole library of acquired human knowledge and guided by experts to generate.

It is not a demerit, actually I think that it is a very elegant outcome how many problems could be solved by generation and this probably show us how language is a far more important thing than we ever thought it was.

Humans can understand it. Not all of them, because to understanding it, there's a lot of other things you need to understand before.

Machine learning IS applied mathematics, especially statistics, probability, and optimization. Period.

The "baby steps" are not there just for intelectual satisfaction, the baby steps give you the building blocks to understand things that become progressively more complex. The baby steps are tools, that once you get familiar with them, you'll find new and new uses everywhere.

A good practical illustration of this: It is pretty hard to figure out how differential equations can be useful if you don't understand what they are. And yet, I bet that on january of 2020, there was at least one math teacher deep down in the amazonian jungle playing with a compartimental model based on a system of ordinary differential equations, to figure out the diverse scenarios this new epidemic could play out if that scary new virus escaped China and those few cruise ships.

Another example: take the concept of backpropagation: the underlying idea behind it is the chain rule from calculus, used to work backward through a computation and calculate how each parameter affects the error. Now, it is way easier to understand it in a small CNN that you are training to recognize handwritten digits than trying to understand it in the context of a full transformer model. A digit classifier is something that is way easier and affordable for you to fiddle with stuff and develop and intuition on loss functions, gradients, backpropagation and overfitting.

The raw resources you need to build robots are constrained and have a very very long and complicated supply chain.

In the second world war, Germany had impressive science and technology, but, as Stalin said, quantity is a quality in itself, and The Third Reich found out that it was an impossible task to get the metals and fuels for their advanced jet engines, rockets and U2 boats, when between then and those resources there were masses of tens of millions of under-equipped and malnourished soviet soldiers fighting what was an existencial war for them.

I am not sure I would expect a transformer model to excel on this kind of task.

We have to many MBAs and business types on Hollywood that basically are masters of chasing local maxima, while stuck in a valley. They can only think on the short term, and for a while, by the only criteria they understand (number goes up) they were successful, but their formula was guaranteed to be short lived.

Who would know that optimizing for the next quarter would also not be a recipe for long term value creation in arts too?

It took me years of discipline and control to finally be able to read a book in services like O'Reilly books from cover to cover.

Now, compare it with my own situation living in a medium mountain city in Brazil. Whenever I wanted to read a book published in the US, I had to go to a physical book shop in a major city at least some 100 miles from my city, and pay for each book, at least twice (probably more) that now I pay a month for o'Reilly.

Of course I would read each book cover to cover, and come back to it multiple times, until I had to start doing things like taping the cover back to the book.

I am a brazilian. I don't vote for Bolsonaro (neither for Lula). But this is a load of bullshit that come from Partisan groups. Bolsonaro voters are a majority on Brazilian social networks. Some of their congressional candidates are young, created their political careers on social networks and have millions of followers. Compared to Lula, Bolsonaro voters are younger, lower or mid middle class and male. Lula has an advantage among the poor and in the rich boomer and generation-x cohorts, with an absolute majority amongst civil service workers, including the judiciary. It is kind of natural that you'll see more internet content related to Flavio Bolsonaro. To make their presence the same, Meta would need to arbitrarily throttle one or the other side up or down.

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the powers that be, so fond of censorship and control, actually think making HF amateur radio unusable is a nice outcome.

People are creating agents that get pirated PDF copies of books and them make articles out of paraphrasing entire chapters to generate youtube AI slop videos and SEO slop blogs.