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Comment · 1 month ago
People aren't ready to discuss AI assisted imagery as art yet. Most discussions lack the nuance that Baudelaire lacks in that critique, which deals with the nature of art and the importance of human intention and input.
Comment · 1 month ago
If he didn't understand photography, he wouldn't understand the nuance there either.
Comment · 1 month ago
Analogy is a meaningful way to discuss. Drawing parallels can illustrate a point and bring up nuances by pointing out where it falls apart.
Comment · 1 month ago
Scale the problem down to an email. You're saying AI won't disrupt writing an email, when the text is vetted and authored by a person. True!

But now let chatGPT write lengthy emails unrestricted and now no one wants to read your slop anymore. That's what is being advocated against.

Comment · 1 month ago
Agreed! Although, if done by a mathematician, it's not a ~complete waste. I think the community learns something along the way.

Is there an established term for the idea of "DoS"? I've taken to calling it slop fatigue.

Comment · 1 month ago
Did he say so somewhere? I don't think these ideas are contradictory. It's just an pro AI tooling but anti-slop stance.
Comment · 1 month ago
It's not just the isolated dumping, it's the fast, isolated, possibly untraceable dumping, without long term support.

It'll basically become slop fatigue if OpenAI starts dumping out proofs faster than the community can keep up, and some turn out to be wrong, never formalize it, don't stay to support it, etc.

Comment · 1 month ago
Not "a" human's understanding; Humanity's understanding. Understanding the research problem, and the solution especially, is a lot more involved than simply "read their methods". That's the whole point being made.

It matters if a human came up with it because of everything mentioned in the article... A mathematician's solution is necessarily built on other's ideas that have been disseminated, internalized, pressure tested etc. Methodologies differ too. AI can abuse its compute resources and generate a true/false or counterexample statements, without laying the foundation that a decade of globalized research would have.

Comment · 1 year ago
My assumption is OP doesn't know much about LLMs. Clearly speaking to chatGPT as a person (which I'm guilty of as well at times), but the personification goes further, as you're assigning it attributes that it can't have. Even in the comments people are drawing comparisons to a psychopath... It's just a bot. Also, their chatGPT's response style seems to me like it's been personalized. I also hate when chatGPT hallucinates and starts giving nonsense response, but I acknowledge its just "hallucinating"; what we don't want to start doing is attributing human emotions to a machine.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is terrible advice. Sounds like OP wants to learn industry standards/practices and tooling. How are they supposed to pick that up on their own? It's more likely they'll just develop bad habits, especially with ChatGPT.
Comment · 2 years ago
Hi Peter, what are my options as someone who qualifies for DACA (but doesn't have it) when it comes to working in tech or getting hired by a real company? Currently I do "false freelance" work for a small company that doesn't pay well.
Comment · 2 years ago
There's a lot of videos about EV conversions on YT but they're mostly on the edutainment side not a full on course. Watching RichRebuilds, JerryRigEverything's jeep conversion gives you an overview of the process and they're entertaining if you're completely new to the idea.
Comment · 2 years ago
The benefits for seniors made me sad. Poor old people, this might actually be a good idea if it weren't for everything that's obviously wrong with it.
Comment · 2 years ago
This just makes me more sad, thinking about what could have been. I had a 1500 on SAT from a school where the average is probably at 1000.

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