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Why would you trust a models opinion about its own possibly emergent ability?

I would disagree with this. There have been several instances where the effective use of this First-Person language has had measurable gains in success rates across tasks. The effective usage of this First-Person language for communication and steering between a model/agent and a human is entirely different than whether the model itself can "think" - that does not matter for the former to happen.

It's crazy how far i had to scroll to find someone saying exactly what i was thinking - how come AI sloppy writing like this is showing up on Hn front page?

I'm sure there are some good advice in there but lots of slop as well

Chill my dude. This is just a sane default which will catch normies copy pasting stuff from claude and chatgpt. It's good enough.

"Give everybody a gun! So they can defend themselves from the bad guys! Don't let the government take away your guns!!"

I mean what are they doing right now at Google? Optimizing data centres? Pretty lame compared to this. Even if they completely fail, i'm sure there'll be good lessons.

Imo it definitely has to do with politicians and governments trying to appear strong on the topic of protecting kids from the harms of social media. I also believe a lot of it is well intentioned, albeit poorly executed

It'll be funny when we have Robots, "The user's facial expression looks to be consenting, I'll take that as an encouraging yes"

You can frame the "unpaid voluntary labor" as "creative work" and it would start making a whole lot of sense. "Creative work thrives despite being unpaid in capitalist society."

Hard disagree. You can't just one day wake up and double your energy infrastructure.. China is way ahead.

Regardless of the usefulness of llms, if you don't work at anthropic, how gullible are you to believe that claim at face value?

Big part of my annoyance is the term "AI" itself which you can say to mean anything, everything and nothing. It's something that's used to oversell/hype it to grab money.. which is fine. But if engineers like us can calm the crazy rhetoric down to "llms" or "text completion" "Image-gen api" that's already a leg up in thinking clearly. Like the question "is ai going to put people out of jobs" -> "is this new crazy good text completion model going to put people out of jobs" already gets us out of the weeds somewhat.

Hah financialization strikes again. Try explaining this to a person from a third world country, they would say "what are you talking about". Also they would have better health care than your average American.

"gemini for video games" - here we go again with the AI does the interesting stuff for you rather than the boring stuff