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Comment · 6 months ago
i mean, to be fair, these are professional researchers.

i'm very inclined to trust them on the various ways that models can subtly go wrong, in long-term scenarios

for example, consider using models to write email -- is it a misalignment problem if the model is just too good at writing marketing emails?? or too good at getting people to pay a spammy company?

another hot use case: biohacking. if a model is used to do really hardcore synthetic chemistry, one might not realize that it's potentially harmful until too late (ie, the human is splitting up a problem so that no guardrails are triggered)

Comment · 9 months ago
what about crypto voting schemes? zero knowledge and all that

if we assume the user connection is secure (ie, about as secure as banking), can we have secure internet voting?

Comment · 9 months ago
By publishing the poison fountain, you are making it so that researchers will have to invent techniques to "de-poison" data, perhaps contributing to long-term AI advances in intelligent data filtering while training

And secondly, why would you want worse LLMs? Seems less useful that way

Comment · 1 year ago
This is so cool. A question on the service mesh - is building your own typically the best way to do things?

I'm new to networking..

Comment · 1 year ago
A one-click avatar replacement (for when you detect you are in an AI interview) - that'll be interesting huh

The fun part is that then, the interviews can look way different than today -- e.g. the robot interviewer can demand proofs of the user's skill, etc.

It can even be confidential (ie, robot interviewer <> user's agent in a black-box room) so that they can share data

Imagine you have a function f(user_profile) -> decision

You can run f in a way that respects the user's privacy (and also hides the details of f from the user).

Companies get ~10x more data from each interviewee

Interviewees don't need to even show up

Sounds like a good deal to me!

Comment · 1 year ago
I don't know if you're joking, but here are some answers:

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." — Plutarch

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." — John Dewey

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." — Albert Einstein

In order to think complex thoughts, you need to have building blocks. That's why we can think of relativity today, while nobody on Earth was able to in 1850.

May the future be even better than today!

Comment · 1 year ago
i'm curious, how does it work? does it read the db directly or use applescript to get the notes?
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Comment · 1 year ago
Oh this is really cool! I was building out a bit of this with Restate this past week, but this seems really well put together :) will give it a try!
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Comment · 1 year ago
you are a free man, just leave! imagine you only have 1 month left to live, how would you go about maximizing your life?

and do that

Comment · 1 year ago
Wow, anyone have examples in SST? I just started learning CDK today, and this seems slightly better?
Comment · 1 year ago
yeah the demo I saw was: https://x.com/livekit/status/1870194686532694417

But searching for "voice detection with pauses", it seems there's a lot of new contenders!

https://x.com/kwindla/status/1897711929617154148

this one is a fun approach too https://x.com/zan2434/status/1753660774541849020

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