WonderBuilder

I have little to offer but my acknowledgement. The "song and dance" routine of getting and new job (especially in the tech industry at least) is dispiriting, embarrassing, exasperating, and disempowering. Even with an impressive amount of skill and dedication to the interview process, the method is indistinguishable from a particularly unrewarding lottery.

I'm sorry, you're in this situation. Eventually, as you said, it will end...

Thanks a lot for sharing that official document. It has great evidence and addresses the concerns I had. Additionally, the statement is labelled as a "recommendation", which is much more accomodating.

It feels to me that this advisory was not put out sensibly. WHO advises "against [artificial sweetener] use" because they "do not help control body mass or reduce the risk of weight-related illnesses" and because long term "[may increase the risk] of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease". But is that enough reason to give such a blanket statement disallowance?

What if you want to have some sweetness from time to time but you are watching your sugar levels? Surely that's better than just taking sugar. What if you are weaning yourself off so much sugar? Surely that's better too. It seems to me that artificial sweeteners are a useful product for many people and is obviously not a panacea. I mean, honestly, hardly anything is good in excess!

I feel this is so poorly communicated and almost guarantees people will take the wrong message from this.

Honestly, I find Siri the most powerful popular voice assistant out there. Once you starting using Shortcuts, you can use Siri for literally anything. With just holding the power button, and a couple words, I can start tracking a run, schedule message a friend, record my thoughts, close all my tabs that contain the word "youtube"... And so much more!

Shortcuts & Siri is honestly the main reason I switched from Android to iOS.

This is amazing already! Very exciting. I'll make sure I follow this project's progress. It also reminds me of Adept and their goal with ACT-1. I still haven't seen their product launch, though...

I appreciate your concerns. There are few other pretty shocking developments, too. If you check out this paper: "Sparks of AGI: Early experiments with GPT-4" at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf, (an incredible, incredible document) and check out Section 10.1, you'd also observe that some researchers are interested in giving motivation and agency to these language models as well.

"For example, whether intelligence can be achieved without any agency or intrinsic motivation is an important philosophical question. Equipping LLMs with agency and intrinsic motivation is a fascinating and important direction for future work."

It's become quite impossible to predict the future. (I was exposed to this paper via this excellent YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqg3aTGNxZ0)

Wow, a plesant little watch. I can imagine this also being hooked up to a text to image model and an ElevenLabs voice to really set the DM theme.

This is great! Beautifully designed and effective. I'll definitely be trying this out.

It is unreal how I am listening to the oldest song in recorded history as I look at machine-created art crafted by text and images given to Stable Diffusion.