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Comment · 3 months ago
> GOG is the only vendor that actually lets you to own your games.

If I own it, can I sell it?

Comment · 7 months ago
It's a bit of misdirection, since you actually have more options than just clicking the button.
Comment · 7 months ago
>The Turing test has a rigorous definition

Does it? Where?

Comment · 7 months ago
ELIZA fooled plenty of people (both originally and in the study you just linked) but i still wouldn't say Eliza passed/passes the turing test in general. It just shows that occasionally or even frequently fooling people is not a sufficient proxy for general intelligence. Ofc there isn't a standardized definition, but one thing I would personally include in a "strict" Turing test is that the human interrogee ought to be incentivized to cooperate and to make their humanity as clear as possible. And the interrogator should similarly be incentivized to find the right answer.
Comment · 8 months ago
I get the impression LLM agents are a bit like tamagochi but for tech bros.
Comment · 8 months ago
This is nice but it looks so suspiciously AI-written how can I trust it? I could just ask ChatGPT for any of these things myself.
Comment · 9 months ago
Ruby has a similarly intuitive `3.times do ... end` syntax
Comment · 1 year ago
A human being informed of a mistake will usually be able to resolve it and learn something in the process, whereas an LLM is more likely to spiral into nonsense
Comment · 1 year ago
At least until they spend some time with it
Comment · 1 year ago
It also doesn't need to be good for anything to turn the world upside down, but it would be nice if it was
Comment · 1 year ago
I see about 40 paragraphs?
Comment · 1 year ago
I assume you're not very interested in the subject if you think synthesizers aren't real instruments
Comment · 1 year ago
I didn't mean that a human driver needs to leave their vehicle to drive safely, I mean that we understand the world because we live in it. No amount of machine learning can give autonomous vehicles a complete enough world model to deal with novel situations, because you need to actually leave the road and interact with the world directly in order to understand it at that level.
Comment · 1 year ago
I wouldn't trust a human to drive a car if they had perfect vision but were otherwise deaf, had no proprioception and were unable to walk out of their car to observe and interact with the world.
Comment · 1 year ago
How many images do you need? What are the use-cases that need a bunch of artificial yet photoreal images produced or altered without human supervision?

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