mattm
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Comment · 18 hours ago
As a clear example, here's Darth Vader voiced by the actor who played him before James Earl Jones' voice was inserted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQFho0_G1VI
Imagine how different Star Wars would be without Jones.
Comment · 3 days ago
What turned you off from life sciences? I've been investigating moving into it and would be interested to hear your experience.
Comment · 4 days ago
> Considering that no human will be able to sift through these in no less than a team-decade
How do you figure that? For ETH, OpenAI is engaging with top experts in this area. It's unlikely that they'll need 10 man-years combined to go through the results:
> This work will be verified and shepherded by a group led by Russell Impagliazzo (UC San Diego), Ramamohan Paturi (UC San Diego), and Ryan Williams (MIT). All three are experts in algorithm design and complexity theory.
> Impagliazzo and Paturi, along with Francis Zane, are the original proposers of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and have authored a number of influential papers on the topic over the last 30 years.
> Williams has refuted strong versions of the ETH, used ETH for hardness results, and connected algorithms and lower bounds.
Comment · 4 days ago
The 2012 movie "Travelling Salesman" is a thought provoking film that explores this scenario.
Comment · 4 days ago
To be fair, I'm sure Adobe Photoshop has a long list of bugs as well.
Comment · 4 days ago
Do you have a specific episode to recommend? I would love to hear about the challenges of checking AI work in another industry.
Comment · 4 days ago
This will be the future model for businesses. Buy a generalized frontier model and finetune it and make it available internally. This model offers a lot more business benefits than the current risk.
Comment · 4 days ago
The more frightening reality is people turning to AI to do research on who to vote for and the AI is silently told to influence them towards a party it candidate. Since it has past chat history it can utilize that to highlight topics you are interested in and personalize the arguments.
Comment · 6 days ago
Do you have any recommended resources that you used to help learn the linear algebra?
Comment · 8 days ago
In your own words, what is the "American Deep State"?
Comment · 9 days ago
Have you been forthcoming that your email was AI-generated?
If you have, then I'd say no. They know what it's about and what to expect. If you haven't, then yes, it's a waste of their time.
Comment · 9 days ago
Do I read that right? You're wasting researchers time?
Comment · 11 days ago
haha, I haven't picked up knitting but I've been working on https://alcubi.ai/delegator/ to help solve this problem. For me, I ended up trying to work on new tasks while waiting for the agent to complete. This led to me getting frustrated with too much context switching. The solution I settled on was a configurable, rate-limited queue to prevent too much work from piling up.
Comment · 14 days ago
I have done this. It's exactly the reason I went back to doing code review. I don't look at the code with a fine toothed comb, but it does help me catch bad patterns early.