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What does self referential have to do with anything? These LLMs have proven they can "talk about themselves".

> an individual act or product of thinking

Emphasis on "product of thinking". Though you'll probably get all upset by the use of the word "thinking". However, people have applied the word "thinking" to computers for decades. When a computer is busy or loading, they might say "it's thinking."

> a developed intention or plan

You could certainly ask this model to write up a plan for something.

> reasoning power

Whether you like it or not, these LLMs do have some limited ability to reason. Far from human level reasoning, and they VERY frequently make mistakes/hallucinations and misunderstand, but these models have proven they can reason about things they weren't specifically trained on. For example, I remember seeing one person made up a new programming language, never existed before, and they were able to discuss it with an LLM.

No, they're not conscious. No, they don't have minds. But we need to rethink what it means for something to be "intelligent", or what it means for something to "reason", that doesn't require a conscious mind.

For the record, I find LLM technology fascinating, but I also see how flawed it is, how over hyped it is, that it is mostly a stochastic parrot, and that currently it's greatest use is as a grand scale bullshit misinformation generator. I use chatgpt sparingly, only when I'm confident it may actually give me an accurate answer. I'm not here to praise chatbots or anything, but I also don't have a blind hatred for the technology, nor do I immediately reject everything labeled as "AI".

Self driving cars aren't fully autonomous yet. They occasionally require human intervention to make decisions, which I would guess makes it difficult to steal these cars without being detected. They're constantly cloud connected and so they know where the car is at all times. I imagine these factors may deter theft of self driving cars for a while longer.

Repossessing a self driving car, on the other hand...

Way to cherry pick the one definition that fits your argument and ignore all the other definitions which kinda fit for what this model is doing.

It's literally the first game mentioned in the article...

It's called terminology. Every field has words that mean very different things from the layman's definition. It's nothing to get upset about.

The second video is the one I recall, though it seems I'm the one misremembering details.

As for that first video, honestly it feels phony/staged, like all that fake miraculous crap that was common on TV 10-20 years ago.

I know the experiment you're referring to. It's been a long time since I've seen it, no idea how to find it now, but you're definitely misremembering some details. Dogs do have a sense of time, but in that experiment, it actually had to do with scent. As their owner was away, their scent would gradually dissipate throughout the day. At a certain point, the scent was weak enough that the dog knew it was about time for their owner to be home.

In the experiment, then they did everything they could to remove their owners scent from their home. The dog's owner came home at the usual time, but the dog wasn't expecting it this time because they had removed the owner's scent earlier, so the dog was clearly surprised and confused.

Dogs have a very strong sense of smell which we humans often fail to appreciate. It's not like dogs can smell their owner coming home from miles away, that's a little preposterous. But they can use their sense of smell in other ways, which are not so obvious to us, such as to maintain a sense of time.

I guess one good thing about this patent is it may prevent other automakers from implementing such systems.

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Many of us, not all of us. More so than the average population.

Acquisitions/mergers are one of the great evils of capitalism which only serve to consolidate power into mega corporations. Governments are far too permissive of them. The vast majority should be flat out rejected.

The sad truth is, most people simply don't care about anything that doesn't affect them. Yes, there are people who do care, like many of us here on Hacker News, but we are very much in the minority. And even among those who do care, very few are really willing to do anything about it, far from enough to bring about any meaningful change.

Why does the title mention specifically duckdb and postgres? It sounds like it supports multiple embedded and remote databases, and I don't see anything special in the README specifically about this pairing...

Grep is nice, but I would much prefer better tools for searching through code. Something that knows how to parse multiple languages and can infer the types of things. Not to mention indexing, for large code bases, grep'ing through possibly millions of lines of code can be awfully slow.

IDEs do a decent job but are typically lacking compared to the raw power of grep.