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evc123··on OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman
> Whether scaling laws hold or not, is up for debate.

The scaling laws have broken: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14891

evc123··on Large language models: Scaling laws and emergent properties
But what about "Broken Neural Scaling Laws" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14891)?
evc123··on Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14891
evc123··on OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI
What is the business model of HuggingFace?
evc123··on OpenAI Charter
What about benefitting non-human animals? Hopefully the benefits are distributed to all creatures and not just humanity.
evc123··on The problem with Facebook
Nah, fchollet just doesn't want pytorch to minimize keras:

https://twitter.com/jekbradbury/status/976612114260357120

evc123··on OpenAI Supporters
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/7ftxow/d_e...
evc123··on Facebook and Microsoft introduce ecosystem for interchangeable AI frameworks
ONNX plans to support TensorFlow as well: https://github.com/onnx/onnx/issues/3
evc123··on Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
What are "something(s) not on our radar"?
evc123··on OpenAI Baselines: ACKTR and A2C
The paper is the documentation.
evc123··on OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships
Elon posted these AI fear/regulation tweets right after he retweeted the opeanai dota 2 blog post:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/896166762361704450

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/896169801277517824

evc123··on Why I’m Remaking OpenAI Universe
Arthur Juliani is about to open source his interface for connecting ML agents to Unity3D game engine: https://twitter.com/awjuliani/status/879142906178785281
evc123··on Why I’m Remaking OpenAI Universe
recruit Alex Nichol (unixpickle).
evc123··on Why I’m Remaking OpenAI Universe
Evolution has been running ~10^19 experiments in parallel for billions of years: http://reducing-suffering.org/how-many-wild-animals-are-ther...

Evolution is a slow algorithm, but it had access to an absurd amount of compute (all neuronal organic matter on Earth) and environment simulation (all of physical reality on Earth) when discovering us; so the discovery of the algorithms/architectures/principles in our heads shouldn't be viewed as trivial.

evc123··on Why I’m Remaking OpenAI Universe
https://github.com/unixpickle/muniverse

https://github.com/unixpickle/demoverse

evc123··on Deep Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
What important DRL stuff does this not mention?
evc123··on Special projects
@Darmani Can you think of any ways traditional program synthesis techniques could be combined with machine learning to perform #2? Assume your system has access to a large amount of practice problems/solutions to train with.
evc123··on Simple questions to help reduce AI hype
According to this paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.06565.pdf, OpenAI (John Schulman and Paul Christiano) explicitly indicate interest in researching transparency and strongly support work on fairness.
evc123··on I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA
support biogerontology/aging research
evc123··on Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering
usually zero padding is used; a max_input_length is set somewhere in the code and a number of zeros equal to (max_input_ length - actual_number_of_words_in_input) is appended to the array of input word_ids so that all input sentences have the same length.
evc123··on Marvin Minsky dies at 88
Was his cerebral hemorrhage a sudden/unpredictable death? If not, I'm surprised he didn't first relocate to cooperative hospice care in Scottsdale near Alcor to cryopreserve himself before damage became (possibly) irreversible.
evc123··on If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious (2014)
Scott Aaronson directly addresses the integrated information theory of consciousness in his this blog post: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799
evc123··on When will we stop using Facebook?
I think Facebook has staying power because they're the first social network to have made serious AI/ML investments. They'll be able to project user's likes back at them better than anyone else.
evc123··on Deep Learning – Review by LeCun, Bengio, and Hinton
Nature should just use targeted advertising to make their journals free, similar to the way google/facebook make their services free using targeted ads.
evc123··on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
Someone should train an RNN on neural network source code to see if it's possible to get neural networks to generate neural networks.
evc123··on Ask HN: What can I do to improve social skills?
You could try using https://www.okcupid.com/ to find a soulmate.