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Comment · 22 days ago
Can someone explain, why people understanding is important? Proof 1+1=2 was created in XX centery, but people before and now use it without understanding, use it as axiom. In computer science, a lot of people use CAP-theorem without understanding their proof, because we know someone else prove it and verified it.
Comment · 1 month ago
I agree that sending someone a text you haven't read and understood is a sign of poor skills, much like forwarding someone else's message that has nothing to do with the issue being discussed. But we have to acknowledge that the market for speechwriters and corporate copywriters has existed for centuries. Surely you don't think a president is being dishonest when delivering a speech that someone else wrote for them?
Comment · 1 month ago
The assumption is that if an LLM is incapable of playing chess—a game with a relatively small number of pieces, clear and simple rules, and perfect information—even after reading a hundred thousand books on chess, then it is fundamentally incapable of managing an army or a factory. This is because those scenarios involve more 'pieces,' incomplete and fuzzy information, and implicit rules that need to be deduced independently. It doesn't matter whether it has tools or not. It's simply that running tests with chess is cheap, whereas testing with an army or writing a browser from scratch is quite time-consuming and expensive.
Comment · 1 month ago
This is just some sort of Luddism all over again. Sorry to be blunt, but nobody cares about your proofreading, because your text will most likely be read by another AI anyway. Your boss doesn't care about what's more convenient for you either. If you generate X amount of value for the company and your colleague generates 3X, you'll soon find yourself out on the street. It's like saying you don't like Googling things and instead prefer spending the whole day at the library reading through articles and books. LLMs are incredibly powerful tools, and everyone's task right now is to learn how to maximize their productivity by leveraging their advantages and mitigating their flaws, rather than urging people not to use AI. The genie is out of the bottle, and the world will never be the same.
Comment · 1 month ago
The assumption is that if an LLM is incapable of playing chess—a game with a relatively small number of pieces, clear and simple rules, and perfect information—even after reading a hundred thousand books on chess, then it is fundamentally incapable of managing an army or a factory. This is because those scenarios involve more 'pieces,' incomplete and fuzzy information, and implicit rules that need to be deduced independently. It doesn't matter whether it has tools or not. It's simply that running tests with chess is cheap, whereas testing with an army or writing a browser from scratch is quite time-consuming and expensive.
Comment · 1 month ago
This is called a benchmark. We run a calculation of Pi to evaluate a computer's performance, but we don't allow the script to download a ready-made solution. When we evaluate a runner, we don't let them use a bicycle. When we evaluate a new LLM, we don't allow it to send a request to a team of programmers, so using a chess engine for an LLM is cheating
Comment · 1 month ago
Tests are often conducted under restricted conditions. For example, elementary school students aren't given calculators in math class, or during an interview, you are asked what encapsulation is and aren't allowed to use Google. The chess test effectively demonstrates the reasoning capabilities of an LLM without relying on brute force, because a human is incapable of calculating trillions of combinations yet plays chess successfully. This test is necessary because many complex problems cannot be solved by brute force, such as managing a business or playing Heroes 3. Therefore, we can make the assumption that if an LLM can play chess at a grandmaster level without brute force, it means it will be able to command an army or manage production.
Comment · 1 month ago
I am bad in chess game by itself like 1200 ELO, but I can write Programm and win player with 2600 ELO. Does it mean I am pro chess gamer?
Comment · 1 month ago
Why do people consider the use of targeted advertising in elections to be unethical, while using the same advertising to push people into buying things is considered ethical? Personally, I find all advertising unethical because it is an attempt to exploit the brain's vulnerabilities for the benefit of whoever paid for the ad.
Comment · 2 months ago
I don't understand the panic among peoples. Yes, we've found ourselves in an extraordinary situation where powerful hacking tools have emerged, and that poses a threat. But vulnerabilities are specific code errors. Once we use AI to find and fix all of these errors, threats like this will cease to exist. AI isn't capable of finding vulnerabilities indefinitely, because there is a finite number of them anyway.
Comment · 2 months ago
Sounds like assembler Friday. Or manual memory management Friday.
Comment · 3 months ago
It's a strict legal requirement for all cars
Comment · 3 months ago
automatic speed control in the Toyota Yaris works absolutely terribly. On the highway, it constantly misreads signs and suggests driving at 40 km/h instead of 120 km/h. It can even interpret a 10-ton weight limit sign as a 10 km/h speed limit!

And you can't turn off the audio warning, so I've just gotten used to it and now I ignore it.

Comment · 6 months ago
The answer is simple: high population density. The more densely people live, the more effective public transport is.

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