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I think some people approach this looking for ways the reality of ChatGPT is inconsistent with the hype. But if you just look at it plainly as-is and compare it to where we were 5 years ago, it's pretty amazing, lies and hallucinations and all.

It's a whole lot better than nothing.

Everyone as in every human being on earth, or everyone as in most reasonable people? I'm not convinced at all. ChatGPT tells you it can lie before you can even ask it anything.

> There is no open source-like alternative for seeds

Maybe there should be. Interesting idea.

I am getting tired of takes like this. LLMs are parrots, but they parrot human language which seems to encode our reasoning abilities into its structure. So if you can mimic language well enough, you start to mimic reasoning abilities.

I feel like we should have all moved on from the fact that LLMs don't have a very precise memory? This is (not entirely, but mostly) fixed by including the information you want to query in the prompt itself, like Bing does. ChatGPT is much better at summarization than precise fact recall.

And most of the time, it doesn't matter. When I'm using ChatGPT to learn or troubleshoot something, it's a jumping off point, not the end of the story. As long as everyone understands that, there's no problem. I have yet to see anyone who treats its output as 100% fact, and no AI company claims it either.

From what I have seen, plenty of the fear was about the GMOs themselves.

> due to irrational fear of GMOs

Would not be surprised to find this fear was astroturfed. It makes literally no sense.

Why is grave robbing something that old immoral? Is it just the potential to ruin an archeological dig site or do we actually care about leaving these things untouched?

When I saw this, I figured it was a clear step back from simply using plugins in the main ChatGPT view. It's basically plugins, but with extra prompting and you can only use one at a time.

But if you look at projects like Autogen ( https://github.com/microsoft/autogen ), you see one master agent coordinating other agents which have a narrower scope. But you have to create the prompts for the agents yourself.

This GPTs setup will crowd-source a ton of data on creating agents which serve a single task. Then they can train a model that's very good at creating other agents. Altman nods to this immediately after the GPTs feature is shown, repeating that OpenAI does not train on API usage.

Prediction: next year's dev day, which Altman hints will make today's conference look "quaint" by comparison, will basically be an app built around the autogen concept, but which you can spin up using very simple prompts to complete very complex tasks. Probably on top of a mixture of GPT 4 & 5.

They do, they just shy away from calling it "AI." Their camera is one example.

https://thinkml.ai/iphone-ai-artificial-intelligence-feature...

I only skimmed the manifesto, but I didn't see much about paranoia, infallibility, "worthless peons," nothing like that. It basically just said markets and progress are good, collectivism and stagnation are bad. That, along with his hypocritical NIMBYism, seems pretty standard for bay area techies who are lost in the sauce.

I don't agree with a lot of his manifesto. But I wish more people would write manifestos and try to fully explain their worldview instead of spending a lifetime reacting to other people's opinions. It's sad that we think they're inherently pretentious.

I don't get the emphasis on bloat and speed. Those sacrifices let us create a TON of software really fast.

What does disappointment me about this industry is that we haven't found or invented some low-code app builder that is actually good enough for most use cases. I feel like we really should be spending most of our time as logicians who encode business logic, but we spend way too much time churning through supporting technology.

But every app builder I've seen runs into the same problem, that complexity scales exponentially in complexity a way that code doesn't have to. So it quickly becomes better to have built the dang thing from scratch.

And it's not like I can think of anything better. So it feels like we're missing something fundamental, probably to do with how we imagine user interfaces. Hopefully LLMs open the door to something better here eventually, and I'm not at all saying that chat views or plain speech are the best user interfaces we can do.

I like it, personally. Monthly fees for most AI services are way overpriced, because we all know theyre paying for gpu by the minute.

The dropbox design page looks like Neubrutalism to me, but the OP link almost seems like something else. Hard to say.

They got me with this too. Roped into a year long subscription.

It's completely appropriate to complain about openai doing this because of its unique structure as a temporarily profit driven nonprofit

To be honest, for someone whose uncle and father were both assassinated, he has a surprisingly level head.

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Microplastics are so pervasive that they're even found in human breastmilk now. Maybe it's fatalistic, but what is the point of worrying about this on an individual level beyond limiting use of certain plastic products? And it's not just microplastics - we're seeing other news about "forever chemicals," hormones in our food, the global drop of average male sperm production by 50% (!!!), etc.

At a certain point, apathy sets in. If this is our generation's mesothelioma, so be it.

Natural selection is a massive amount of computation. It's not like we got to skip that. Any learning that we do without computation is based on structures that were computed by evolution. One way or another the "learning" process is happening somewhere.

I was using plain Ubuntu around 2020. Upgraded from an ancient GeForce to a pretty standard AMD graphics card and it totally wrecked my installation. While debugging in the command line, my screen was constantly flickering. Headache inducing. Then while trying to reinstall Ubuntu, I accidentally messed up my windows installation. It took a weekend to get everything back to normal, and it just wasn't worth it at all.

My experience leaving Windows was like yours... until I did a software upgrade or had to replace my graphics card, etc. Hours of fighting the command line, glitchy graphical bugs. For me, the desire to cultivate my linux computer like a garden ended up being a distraction from using my computer like the tool it is. Just my 2cents.

I would love to hear about any actual crimes he committed before wishing he goes to jail. It feels like the mob has already decided he's guilty.

Can you elaborate on how the deception part is related to the bullying? I don't see the connection

I'm guessing the people publishing the package need to pay gas fees?

Not ideal since people make packages as a labor of love. Maybe a community fund to pay gas fees would work.

I've noticed a lot of overweight people using food as a crutch to manage emotional discomfort or distress, even when they might not be all that hungry. So there is something else going on.

> A defining feature of blockchain computation models is that the same calculation must be run many, many times to verify it. Given that each individual one must run on the hardware that blockchain is competing with direct usage of, there's no plausible story for blockchain to close the gap.

This is not true - zero knowledge proofs allow you to verify work much more cheaply than the original computation, and they're used heavily in upcoming ethereum L2s.

Any book recommendations for someone who almost failed physics in college but wants to understand QM at a high level?

A weakness of Ethereum is that it's difficult to obscure how much money you have, but Tornado can untraceably separate your cold wallet from your hot wallet. That's a totally legitimate use. While it's used a lot for money laundering, TC is morally agnostic, just like real cash.

This is well written but also very alarmist. There are supply chain issues, but in the west they're limited to certain industries. Amazon orders still arrive in two days. My grocery store is still stocked full. Inflation sucks, and so does the stock market, but we're in the middle of a European war and just out of a global pandemic. Demand has already risen to pre-pandemic levels, so supply will eventually reorient to meet it. All things considered, the economy is still doing pretty great!