puttycat

A truly chaotic week in Europe, alongside the UK train crash and the unprecedented heat wave.

Can someone explain this in layman terms? I don't understand any of it

The final weights in themselves don't tell you anything about what went into the training process, e.g censorship.

The question is more whether this game exists as open source somewhere in the training data (probably does).

Makes me think of that part in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream (..) -- where Deckard reflects on the androids' indifference to their imminent deaths, saying that this was due to them lacking the aversion to death acquired trough evolution.

100%. Companies are paperclip optimizers, with money as the objective. For example, Uber used ride data to circumvent investigations by regulators. There is absolutely no reason to assume that AI companies would not use their data in any way possible to reach their objectives.

Hopefully they password-protect the datasets:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10160

What a usability nightmare this site is: 3-4 popups before I could even read the title. No thank you. And this is with an adblocker turned on.

Don't these sites realize how many users they're losing?

My eyes, my eyes! (closed the tab after 4 seconds)

ChatGPT is the only bot that reliably cites sources (through Web search mode).

The other bots either make up links or simply don't provide any information that is distinguishable from the LLM predictive output.

Ironically Gemini is also very bad at this, while it should have been the best at Web search.

Gemini also does something very patchy, which is to provide "links" which are in fact GET queries into classic Google search. I'm guessing they did it this way because the links generated/hallucinated by the LLM were too unreliable.

Interesting angle, didn't think of this. How do you think/find that current tools are optimized for being addictive?

I agree, but we do owe them PyTorch and React.

Can we also not ban people for pointing out an evidently funny naming?

The goal of automation is to automate consistently perfect competence, not human failures.

You wouldn't use a calculator that is as good as a human and makes mistakes as often.

@dang this deserves a black ribbon

> Every request is end-to-end encrypted

Afaik you will need to decrypt the data the moment it needs to be fed into the model.

How do they do this then?

"CEO said a thing" journalism, discussed on HN very recently:

https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577735

Beautiful. I have tears in my eyes. Bring reasonable design back.

True, but the Docker attack surface is limited to a malicious actor distributing malicious images. (Bad enough in itself, I agree.)

Unreliable, unpredictable AI agents (and their parent companies) with system-wide permissions are a new kind of threat IMO.

Forgot to mention the craziness of trusting an AI software company with your private AI codebase (think Uber's abuse of ride data).

I am still amazed that people so easily accepted installing these agents on private machines.

We've been securing our systems in all ways possible for decades and then one day just said: oh hello unpredictable, unreliable, Turing-complete software that can exfiltrate and corrupt data in infinite unknown ways -- here's the keys, go wild.

> Companies claiming 100% of their product's code is now written by AI consistently put out the worst garbage you can imagine. Not pointing fingers, but memory leaks in the gigabytes, UI glitches, broken-ass features, crashes.

Spotify's CEO recently bragged about the app's code being written almost entirely by AI. Just saying.

If you suffer from any kind of anxiety, and you drink caffeine, you should seriously consider quitting. Even if you only drink as little as one coffee per day. There's a very high chance that caffeine is the source of a large part of it.

I've been drinking coffee for 20 years and had always assumed that I was just an anxious, paranoid person. Quitting made me realize that I really wasn't.

Quitting/reducing has also cured my itchy skin problem.

I also highly recommend the subreddit r/decaf as a great source of information.

The nice one I found randomly in a store is by Adeline Klam. (originally in French, but I see there's an English version)

I recently picked up an origami book and started practicing in dull moments. I highly recommend it for anyone struggling with phone addiction.

> They contacted Facebook, which at the time dominated the social media landscape, asking for help scouring uploaded family photos - to see if Lucy was in any of them. But Facebook, despite having facial recognition technology, said it "did not have the tools" to help.

Willing to bet my life savings that they are able to do exactly this when the goal is to create shadow profiles or maximize some metric.

> models correctly interpret these questions as attempts to discredit / shame the model

So they respond by... discrediting themselves?

Both

I keep an iPhone SE 1st gen as a secondary phone. It still has the last best keyboard iOS had. Almost zero mistakes. Probably because no AI and other overoptimizitation BS. Every time I go back to my primary 13 I want to cry.