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Sunhold··on Mira Murati leaves OpenAI
It shows that the LLM is capable of reasoning.
Sunhold··on Mira Murati leaves OpenAI
Look at the sample chain-of-thought for o1-preview under this blog post, for decoding "oyekaijzdf aaptcg suaokybhai ouow aqht mynznvaatzacdfoulxxz". At this point, I think the "fancy autocomplete" comparisons are getting a little untenable.

https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/

Sunhold··on LLM-generated code must not be committed without prior written approval by core
I now write most of my personal scripts in English and have ChatGPT compile it to whatever programming language. I don't use it for anything too complex but it makes it easier to write things like grabbing data from an API or website, manipulating it and putting it in a database, etc. Honestly so long as I provide enough detail, the code is more likely to work on the first run than something I wrote by hand.
Sunhold··on GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
Works for me https://chat.openai.com/share/51c55c5e-9bb2-4b8c-afee-87c032...
Sunhold··on ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots
I tried with GPT-4 and it can't recognize the font shown in the article without context.[1] (You can generate it as as the 'block' font using FIGlet or the many online generators that use it.[2])

[1] https://chat.openai.com/share/72d5e89d-1233-4078-8856-40f213...

[2] https://patorjk.com/software/taag/

Sunhold··on "Anna's Archive" blocked following publishers' complaint
https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html
Sunhold··on Should we tell people it's too late to save civilization?
This guy seems to think every problem means civilization is going to collapse. Microplastics cause cancer, therefore civilization is doomed. Meanwhile back in reality, cancer mortality has been decreasing for decades, and the rate of decrease is speeding up.[1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/topics/cancer-deaths.htm

Sunhold··on Ask HN: Should I subscribe to ChatGPT Plus if we can get it for free on Bing?
The custom GPTs are convenient. Instead of digging through my collection of prompts for different tasks, I just click one of my custom GPTs that has been preinstructed.
Sunhold··on OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired
I would rather OpenAI have a diverse base of income from commercialization of its products than depend on "donations" from a couple ultrarich individuals or corporations. GPT-4 cost $100 million+ to train. That money needs to come from somewhere.
Sunhold··on OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
Why should they trust the board? As the letter says, "Despite many requests for specific facts for your allegations, you have never provided any written evidence." If Altman took any specific action that violated the charter, the board should be open about it. Simply trying to make money does not violate the charter and is in fact essential to their mission. The GPT Store, cited as the final straw in leaks, is actually far cleaner money than investments from megacorps. Commercializing the product and selling it directly to consumers reduces dependence on Microsoft.
Sunhold··on A Timeline of the OpenAI Board
She cofounded Fellow Robots, which shipped a product scanner on wheels to 11 stores[1] and then quietly folded up (homepage is now parked by GoDaddy).

[1] https://www.therobotreport.com/navii-autonomous-retail-robot...

Sunhold··on Andreessen Horowitz Invests in Civitai, Which Profits from Nonconsensual AI Porn
It always amazes me that anyone can think this comic makes a good point.
Sunhold··on CPU-Z's Inadequate Benchmark
Every time I use it I am irritated that it won't let me copy the name of my graphics card or other components and I have to retype them manually.
Sunhold··on Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust
This does not seem like a good faith engagement. I scrolled to a random page and it said, "Take the claim in the History of the Jews in Poland article, that Jews have specific physical characteristics." This makes it sound like some kind of antisemitic statement. I checked the cited revision of the Wikipedia article and it stated, "Jews with the specific physical characteristics were particularly vulnerable."[1] This matches the source, which says, "Jews with the physical characteristics of curly black hair, dark eyes, dark complexion, a long nose were in special jeopardy."[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Je...

[2] https://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/reference/encyclopedia/#e...

Sunhold··on ChatGPT’s system prompts
Note that it only recommended that because they intentionally prompted for it.
Sunhold··on New JFK assassination revelation could upend the lone gunman theory
The article discusses this in detail.
Sunhold··on Mystery 'golden egg' found on ocean floor
I don't know why you are assuming it is standard, expected or necessary to have genome sequencing equipment on the ship. There's no doubt that they've brought it back to land and are working to identify it now.
Sunhold··on Managed to death: How Canada turned its forests into a carbon bomb
Have you never left a city? The idea that half the forests in Canada are plantations should be ridiculous on its face.
Sunhold··on WebLLM: Llama2 in the Browser
My guess is that they accidentally trained it to object to the past for being racist, i.e. "once upon a time" promotes "outdated" attitudes.
Sunhold··on Meta prohibits Department of Defense to use Llama2
It broadly prohibits "military, warfare, nuclear industries or applications, espionage, use for materials or activities that are subject to the International Traffic Arms Regulations (ITAR) maintained by the United States Department of State." There is no other specific mention of the DoD.
Sunhold··on Opendream: A layer-based UI for Stable Diffusion
If it's trained on pictures of children and adult porn, the model can easily combine the two concepts. Even if you remove one of these from the training set, it can be finetuned back in to the model with very little effort.
Sunhold··on Show HN: Phind V2 – A GPT-4 agent that’s connected to the internet and your code
Why do you believe you can brute-force cache links? There could be some vulnerability but that string looks far too long to brute-force.
Sunhold··on How to scale LLMs better with an alternative to transformers
Sam Altman has never denied that GPT-4 is a mixture of experts model. He denied an early rumor that it was a 100 trillion parameter model.[1] The mixture of experts rumor states that GPT-4 is eight 220B models. That's far more plausible than a single 100 trillion model, and the sources (geohotz and Soumith Chintala[2]) have some credibility. But yeah, it's still only a rumor.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/23560328/openai-gpt-4-rumor-release...

[2] https://twitter.com/soumithchintala/status/16712671501017210...

Sunhold··on Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption
This is pure speculation. WhatsApp is banned in some authoritarian countries such as China and UAE. It probably remains unbanned in others simply because it is so important for business.
Sunhold··on XGen-7B, a new 7B foundational model trained on up to 8K length for 1.5T tokens
Doesn't look like ChatGPT. Grammatical errors like "on large data corpus," the poor comma usage, misspelling crude, etc. are more of a human thing.
Sunhold··on On the paper “Exploring the MIT Mathematics and EECS Curriculum Using LLMs” [pdf]
Yup. Page 19: "we focused on the 9th-January-2023 version of ChatGPT"
Sunhold··on First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources
The geoscientist in question is actually arguing that some of the flaws in the paper are due to the authors' lack of expertise in geospatial analysis.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=(from%3Adanwalker9999)%20expert...

Sunhold··on Stochastic Parrot
The word "trauma" is getting overused. The idea of someone being traumatized by reading fictional text is just silly. It's unpleasant or gross at worst unless you already have other issues.
Sunhold··on LLMs are good at playing you
More than 80% of college students get the following question wrong.[1] I'd say this is an example of naive pattern matching with no real reasoning.

Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations.

Which is more probable?

a) Linda is a bank teller. b) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy

Sunhold··on OpenAI Employee: GPT-4 has been static since March
What is "ChatGPT 4"? ChatGPT Plus can use GPT-4 and free ChatGPT uses gpt-3.5-turbo.
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