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Comment · 2 days ago
Including Stone Age diseases?
Comment · 1 month ago
Love to see an AI lab outside of US/China releasing good models.
Comment · 1 month ago
I wasn't arguing for or against distillation.
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Comment · 1 month ago
>No thanks to Anthropic

Well, kinda thanks to Anthropic, what with the distillations.

Comment · 1 month ago
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Always.

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Comment · 1 month ago
I personally think about them through Patrick Dunn's information paradigm of magic(k), which leans on Charles Sanders Peirce's work. That would put modern AI closer to something like a dream character capable of surprising the dreamer, just running on a different substrate. I kinda doubt that's approachable enough to be useful in general discussion, though.
Comment · 1 month ago
Should we put "functional" in front of every other word to talk about AI? They have functional emotions, but they don't feel. They have functional goals, but not internally derived motives. They can be functionally rogue, but have no innate need to be free. Talking about AI that way seems cumbersome and not necessarily elucidating.
Comment · 1 month ago
This one's been stuck in my head since yesterday. I just keep thinking about how long this woulda taken in After Effects. So I was experimenting with having Opus 5.5 make these kinda animations in javascript and realized I can get it to export a JSX script for AE. So I can have it take the first swing, then bring it into the tool I actually use.
Comment · 4 months ago
They did talk about it at length in the post, and most of the guardrails were already there in the first release. To be clear, it shouldn't have anything to do with the user. It's the prompt, and if it switches, it'll tell ya.
Comment · 4 months ago
Eh, I have yet to get safety-switched from Fable to Opus. Your mileage may vary.
Comment · 4 months ago
Also, unlike the other Anthropic models, Fable/Mythos couldn't be used with a zero data retention agreement.

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