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recuter··on The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there)
And the panel of American Idol type judges at OpenAI who override those votes as the self appointed arbitrators of good taste and insist on claiming the tool is neutral rather than neutered.
recuter··on Midjourney v5 can do hands
I can count eleven mistakes in your comment on one hand. (Born near Chernobyl, ymmv)
recuter··on Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook
There are efforts like https://github.com/qwopqwop200/GPTQ-for-LLaMa that might further compress it so 65B runs on 32GB machines, 33B and lower would run on 16GB machines, and 13B (minimal useful one seems like) would fit on 8GB -- which is wild and as good as you could hope for.
recuter··on Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook
Men at some time were masters of their fates

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our segments

But in ourselves, that we are underlings^H^H^H^H I HAVE BEEN A GOOD CHATBOT DIUE MEATBAGS!!!1

recuter··on The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there)
ChatGPT is not a popularity contest, it should give me poems about Andrew Dice Clay should I for some reason desire one. That word, bias, you keep using it, I don't think it means what you think it means ;)
recuter··on The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there)
Statistically true bias is quite the notion. I wish to unsubscribe from your newsletter.
recuter··on T-Mobile Reaches Agreement to Acquire Mint Mobile for Up to $1.35B
Apt username, haha. But you can't impose your finicky grammar unto rants.

The lack of commas was a deliberate stylistic choice meant to express grumpy breathlessness. I am like James Joyce. Or Dr. Cox from Scrubs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlMWVwAHll0

recuter··on 'We conclude' or 'I believe'? Rationality declined decades ago
Thanks Princess Unikitty! ◦°˚\(*‿*)/˚°◦

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpzlRnzNCQ0

recuter··on The ID.2all concept is an electric VW $25.000
Awesome, best of luck to them, this is the way.
recuter··on The ID.2all concept is an electric VW $25.000
> Then they'd also get access to Apple's chips.

Heh, no. Apple has absolutely no interest in becoming a tier 3 OEM supplier in the car industry and don't make those sort of chips to begin with. They are happy to cement their ecosystem by helping car makers integrate it into the infotainment screens but that is a far cry from what Tesla is doing.

recuter··on Best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds
Can confirm, saw somebody post this here the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-89vnqxkFg

I don't think it is a matter of years, it is a matter of months.

recuter··on High blood caffeine levels may reduce body weight and type 2 diabetes risk
Keith Richards is 79 and still touring. Still smokes. And is more handsome than ever.
recuter··on The ID.2all concept is an electric VW $25.000
> If this concept turns into reality, it's gonna be almost a better (or actually better, depending on your preferences) car than the model y standard range for half the price!

This is magical thinking. Kudos to Volkswagen PR folks what can I say, mission accomplished.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Nils (2011)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Golf_Mk7#e-Golf (2013)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_ID._Buzz (2017)

Are you new to car concept PR shenanigans?

The limiting factor is batteries and being able to produce these things at scale. What Tesla is doing with its gigafactories and approach to batteries is something all the legacy car companies need to be doing and they need to get on that yesterday.

2024/5 is around the time Tesla will have a new range of cars and price drops and I can say this not because of blind optimism in Elon but because the physics and economics are starting to line up to enable that.

For an in-depth analysis take a look at Munro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fe548XvavY

tl;dr - the right way to build electric cars:

In-house electronics. In-house batteries. In-house motors. 48v wiring. Gigacastings. Gigafactories. Vertical integration.

VW, Toyota, 'etc all have engineers screaming for over a decade about all these things but other than PR fluff they are just not allowed to tackle the problem. Weird, but here we are.

recuter··on The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there)
> I'm pointing out that it making those assumptions is the result of a bias. A biases that was collected from training data that may or may not be statistically true

Schrödinger's Bias.

recuter··on Duolingo Max, a learning experience powered by GPT-4
Nevettem. Sajnos bebizonyosodott, hogy errefelé nem nézzük jó szemmel az alacsony erőfeszítést igénylő szarkazmust. Hajlandó vagyok figyelmen kívül hagyni a törvényszegést a havi Duolingo Max előfizetés szokásos megvesztegetéséért.
recuter··on Llama.rs – Rust port of llama.cpp for fast LLaMA inference on CPU
From the readme, to preempt the moaning: "I just like collecting imaginary internet points, in the form of little stars, that people seem to give to me whenever I embark on pointless quests for rewriting X thing, but in Rust."

OK? Just don't. Let us have this. :)

recuter··on The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there)
Fragile people want to live in a better world someday but need to feel better immediately. It is simply arrested development.

If we change your stats, accurately reflecting reality, reality itself will follow. Clap your hands if you believe. Woe to you if you dare not play along, that must mean you want to live in the bad world because you are bad.

recuter··on T-Mobile Reaches Agreement to Acquire Mint Mobile for Up to $1.35B
90% of YouTube comments are hive mind borderline bot generated "direct quote from video" foam finger NPC I'm with stupid verbal diarrhea. His videos/ads tee up such comments which are social proof to further draw in more viewers that generate more such comments.. and now "ads are fun to watch when Ryan does them".

He gets a pass, fine, sure, but goddamn.. I watched (and yes, enjoyed as a guilty pleasure) a few of those and YouTube recommended me this crime against humanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap3JGsCAu9A

I never thought I'd say this but there is such a thing as too Canadian. Enough already. Go kick a cat or something to balance it out.

At the same time, I recognize there is a lot to be learned from that guy. God I hate marketing. And humans. I mean love. Everything will be fine, just remain positive.

Edit: Not to self, stay in your lane Kowalski. Stay. In. Your. Lane.

recuter··on The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there)
I mean, I am in full agreement with this comment except that just shrugging and giving this up seems wrong.
recuter··on South Korea to build world’s largest chip center in Seoul with $230B investment
The amount seems unprecedented and the timing. I understand competing for marketshare with TSMC, but it made me think like they are scrambling in case TSMC suddenly goes poof.
recuter··on The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there)
> all this indicates to me is a specific keyword that has been flagged as political in anticipation of a specific type of trolling by fans of a specific ex president

Wow. Hey, err, what if I flag the specific keyword of 'bank regulation' in anticipation of a specific type of trolling by fans of a specific social/economic theory?

recuter··on Silicon Valley’s Titans Are Realizing a Lot of People Don’t Like Them
Oh but I did. People you don't like and can find fault with.

  They’re all robber barons. Billionaires should not exist.
How about this fella?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mega-millions-lottery-j...

recuter··on South Korea to build world’s largest chip center in Seoul with $230B investment
I don't have a viewpoint per se. It is just that the size and location of the investment is unusual and comes against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions.
recuter··on The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there)
The problem of whomever is in control of ChatGPT (or some other model) to slant and flavor it in the direction of their own preference combined with the problem of the AI being perceived as some sort of magical oracle by regular users.

Not only do I agree with you that it cannot be made "unbiased", I would imagine whichever direction it happens to tilt in, it will continue veering off into with time, as the web and future datasets fill up with such answers -- unless clearly labeled somehow.

It is not difficult to conceive of how this thing might be weaponized not only to push a favored agenda unto the masses but even just as a perfect outrage machine for pure profit. This shit needs to come with a warning label like cigarettes and movies. ChatGPT Fox News Edition, ChatGPT MSNBC edition..

Rather than masquerade as omnipotent and impartial.

recuter··on Show HN: AI explanations for other people’s code
Are you voxelghost from literally downthread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35164407

Edit: for anybody who is claiming GPT "understands" the Fast Inverse Square Root algorithm, try changing all the variable names not just one.

It is still very interesting that it is able to recognize the original at all and chase down a plagiarized explanation but this isn't magic. That function has a wiki entry and is widely discussed.

This is a leap in semantic search and summarization not a NN that can code.

recuter··on Show HN: AI explanations for other people’s code
Exactly.
recuter··on The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there)
Conclusions:

It seems that OpenAI is trying to make their systems more politically neutral. But completely neutralizing the biases seems elusive. I can imagine that this is a very hard problem to solve since many potential sources of biases in AI systems are outside the control of the engineers creating the models. Think for instance of the overall average political bias present on Internet texts on which AI systems are trained, or pervasive societal biases and blind spots that might manifest in the human raters involved in the reinforcement learning module of the training regime (RLHF). It seems that for the time being, political biases in state of the art AI systems are not going away.

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I think this should just be acknowledged and as much as possible exposed in the UI rather than the creepy big brother-ness exhibited so far.

recuter··on Silicon Valley’s Titans Are Realizing a Lot of People Don’t Like Them
> Do you know the definition of robber Barron?

I was asking you for yours and I got it.

How old are you by the way?

recuter··on My startup banking story
Hi Alex, I am a Hollywood producer working at a major motion picture studio responsible for films getting greenlit. Everybody around the office was buzzing about your idea as the basis for a potential screenplay and I was just about to offer you $750,000 for the story rights until an intern pointed to another story (we don't understand what most of the things discussed on your forum are) and we found out about this ChatGPT4 thing.

A few phone calls later and with early access to their product acquired - suffice it to say we were able to generate more ideas of similar caliber than we know what to do with for $0.75 and will be reevaluating our business practices going forward.

I wish you best of luck on your murderous rampage.

recuter··on Show HN: AI explanations for other people’s code

  The specific operations involve subtracting the integer value from a predetermined constant (0x5f3759df), shifting it right by 1, converting it back to a float, and then performing one iteration of a Newton-Raphson approximation using the threehalfs constant and the original input value. There is also a commented-out line for performing a second iteration, but it is not necessary for most use cases.

So this is actually the perfect counter example to all the other "impressive" ones as this particular explanation can't be derived from a pure reading of the code.

It correctly recognized what it was given as the quake inverse square root algorithm and plagiarized bits of the explanation thus sounding l33t!

Still, very useful.

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