When I see statements like "garbage-generating machine", I immediately think that the person making such a statement may not be aware of the capabilities of GPT-4.
A lot of the experimentation I've done is too long and complex to fit nicely in an Ask HN post. People have the tendency to move the bar when assigning intelligence to AI. GPT4 is different. Here is a post from earlier today that might be more convincing.
The impact likely begins in 2024 or 2025. I think a team of 5 may become a team of 2 or 3. In that sense, yes, I think it can have a very real impact to salaries and available opportunities.
It is about iteration and interpretation for me. For Java, there is more to consider, there is more to build, there is more to run, and there is more to move around. With Go, things tend to be faster and smaller. It is not feature soup... yet.
This may have been true elsewhere, but I don't think this holds for GPT4.
I suspect that complex intelligence, that cannot be directly attributed to structure of the underlying LLM, has emerged. I am guessing it has to do with the use of language itself and at a sufficient enough size, this property exist in both humans and models.
Thanks for the feedback. I am attempting to understand my own failings in interpreting these responses. I am attempting to evaluate risk in a business context.
Agree 100%. This is what stifles innovation and kills companies, people moving into positions where they make more than they ever have before and their goal is look good to financial stakeholders and maintain their position as long as possible. Although difficult for other reasons, I think I prefer working with true visionaries.
I would have argued against this perspective a few years ago, but given my current situation, you are right. The ability to comprehend and manage complexity faster than others create it is key. The more help you have the better. Work with smart people who think about what they are doing.
Could not agree more. Naming things for what they do encourages other behaviors like deprecation strategies and extension strategies that are non-disruptive to others. It makes people's lives easier if your work follows a level of rigor for naming. Products and companies can do many things under a single name, APIs should try to do the fewest number of things under a given name while fitting the concept as closely as possible.
Has anybody heard of and formed an opinion on Contabo? I was searching for unmetered or high bandwidth offerings and ran across them. They have a cloud VPS for $7/mo with 4vCPU, 8GB RAM, and 32TB traffic.
Agreed! In my mind, to go back in time is to put all particles or whatever fundamental components back in the same place and state as they were previously. Thus, that would include the particles that make up you as well. How would you ever do that and if you did, how would you notice and is it really the past or just now with a replicated state?
I think what you get out of this book really depends on where you are intellectually when you approach it. I read this book decades ago while in college and it helped me conceptualize a recursive universe; thus, how complexity comes from simplicity. It was a mind blowing experience where I wasn't able to sleep for days as my mind raced to make sense of it all.
Ultimately, the ideas I formulated while reading this book set the foundation for my understanding of the universe in general. It gave me a mental model that has served me well for over 20 years and freed my mind to wonder about other things.
Leadership is about managing risk, so that is a hard disagreement from me. Any good leader, especially a tech lead, needs to be able to both define the path and execute the path. If you don't have the skills or background to execute the path, you often have no clue what is involved and aren't of much help.
Even when well versed in a domain and related tech, we get surprised all the time.
Agreed. Any moderately complex system can have emergent behavior. This is a fundamental feature of complexity. You can sometimes take advantage of it, by finding unexpectedly profitable features that only exist at scale or in conditions you happened into.
When that emergent behavior both increases profits and takes advantage of your customers in negative ways, the relationship moves from something symbiotic to something parasitic. This is where it begins to cross the line and people start throwing "evil" around when describing you.
I don't think most companies are out to create a worse world, but many do it until they are forced to reset.
In my opinion, the position of software developers is similar to stonemasons and blacksmiths historically. Skilled professionals to be depended upon. All play(ed) an important role in economics, religion, politics, and society in general.
All this talk about UAPs reminds me of growing up in Texas in the 80's; kids claimed they saw a black planes flying at night. My older cousin claimed one flew over his head at low altitude and we all just wondered what was going on.
I didn't really know what to believe as a kid, I thought people were making it up because the pentagon had recently admitted there was a new jet in the USAF arsenal.
Eventually, the first gulf war came in the 90's and all was revealed. I learned my best friend's father (and neighbor) was a machinist for Lockheed Martin making parts for the F117.
I don't interpret it the same as you. I know this is probably obvious, women faced and continue to face different challenges in the workplace and in business than men do. I feel the writer is simply attempting to acknowledge that fact.
More cringe-worthy, in my opinion, is the trend for people to attempt to create victims of others. Not everything is an attack or laced with some subtext begging for analysis and blame to be attributed. But, that is just me.
Watching over my cousin's shoulder as he debugged a downhill skiing game he wrote for a class he was taking. This was on his newly acquired Apple IIe circa 1983.
I am just trying to forecast how bright Apple's future is. Seems like they have options. So, is there going to be a shift towards ARM/RISC in general or not. If so, where do I put my money?
High throughput at relatively low power. To me, it seems like a match made in heaven. There is the practicality of building rock solid containerization on these CPUs. I don't know where that stands, but it seems like an obvious fit.
If Apple is having this kind of success, it seems they should look to compete in the data center with this or the following generation of chips. I wonder if it is a good time to invest in Apple.
Less regulation has generally led to more public harm. Toxic waste in rivers, siphoning of pensions and retirement plans, ponzi schemes, and on and on and on. There is always a balance to strike and then a constant rebalancing. We must guard against regulatory capture and many other ways the system can go wrong. This means we should favor the election of informed lawmakers that understand complex systems and then oversee them. This is a very technocratic position, but also a balanced position.
This is usually the correct position. Regulated competition and controlled monopolies try to provide the best of both worlds. Private companies will always push for deregulation or find ways to exercise a monopolistic advantage because they are incentivized to do so. Companies should be allowed to optimize within the regulated structure set forth by government. Aside, this is why government corruption cannot be tolerated and we must have strict laws limiting lawmakers' actions when reentering the private sector and oversight when they are in the public arena. We cannot have lawmakers eroding regulations in the name of increased profit when those regulations guard the public from poor outcomes.