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Kids glued to "fun" (addictive) video games on their phones is not wealth, it is the feeder channel for these "efficient" health "care" schedulers, in your other example.

When I was growing up 90-ies, a mix of using public metro and buses to roam the city (since I was in second grade, when I was allowed to take metro to do afterschool karate) and spending summers in various countryside locations where my grandparents resided was a good mix.

I disagree that the kids need or want to roam without grownups all the time. Grownups are not the problem. Kids are fun for the parents, the company of parents and their peers is kinda amazing.

Systems and institutions are the problem. When kids are stuck in the daycare or school, in a very limited space, grownups are stuck at the office and grandparents are in a different state for tax purposes - that is the problem.

I don't know if this is true, but Patagonia claimed at some point that they used to maintain daycares and allow kids to roam the campus...

It feels like to really censor the model it needs to be pre-trained on a distribution of data derived from a well defined and synthetic source, like TinyStories. Otherwise... world model would still be capable of modeling the original distribution.

What if it is a 99% chance of being transformational and the results of that transformation are completely unpredictable?

>> Heaven exists you just have to do this work to get there.

Or perhaps Karpathy has a higher level understanding and can see a bigger picture?

You've said something about heaven. Are you able to understand this statement, for example: "Heaven is a memeplex, it exists." ?

Two decades ago, in the Bay Area we used to have a lot of books stores, specialized, chains, children's, grade school, college slugbooks, etc. Places like Fry's had a coffee and a book store inside. The population grew, number of book stores went down to near zero.

Yes, this is true. There used to be a lot of local book stores, for example. Amazon optimized that away, while ruining social fabric.

In that case, it's great that Microsoft is building their silicon. Keeps NVIDIA in check, otherwise these profits would evaporate into nonsense and NVIDIA would lose the AI industry to competition from China. Which, depending if AGI/ASI is possible or not, may or may not be a great move.

safety/security patches

> There's a simple fact: humans prefer lies that they don't know are lies over lies that they do know are lies.

As an engineer and researcher, I prefer lies (models, simplifications), that are known to me, rather than unknown unknowns.

I don't need to know exact implementation details, knowledge of aggregate benchmarks, fault rates and tolerances is enough. A model is a nice to have.

This approach works, in science (physics, chemistry, biology, ...) and in engineering (including engineering agentic and social sustems- social engineering).

There was a nice video, I've seen at some point where a "DJI Phantom 3 drone gets hit with an electrical impulse of 1.4MV - basically, a lightning strike."

And at the end, they were able to protect the drone, with a tiny bit of shielding...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3iJjrQmEho

That's an interesting argument, about believing in something greater than themselves. But what, if that belief happens to be outdated? This had happened before.

I'm not into demographics planning. But I do have two kids, girls. I certainly want them to have as much autonomy as they could have. A religious argument regarding "fertility rates" that need to be increased is not aligned with that.

I love green spaces. So I simply want to see churches gone, because they compete for the same (very limited) resource. Using the privilege of being grandfathered in.

If they'll move their activity online, it'll not be the case. So I'm happy to see this happening.

This is great to hear. Churches are often in the prime real estate areas, it'd be great, if the attendance / donations would fall to zero. And if these places would be redeveloped into open-for-all urban green islands. Rather than exclusive worship clubs.

This is a marketing effort to advertise and promote use of their tech.

Nothing wrong with it, nothing to see here.

It's interesting that an AI doesn't necessarily need to carry the model of the actual physical world around them, it can be any imaginary one.

While biological systems (or other physical agents) do need to model the world around them to be able to operate.

It's notable that one of the more successful AI products (GitHub Copilot) was not built with throwing the money at a problem or a large team.

It was built by a small team, in a right place of a large company. And they were periodically re-assessing if the machine learning was "there yet". And the technology itself (codex) was created by a mix of Google Research / Academia (NIPS) and OpenAI/YC attempt to connect that research with products. It wasn't done on giant budgets and compensation was at the FANG levels or below.

It is used ti be always religion. But now downsides are well understood. And alternatives that can fill the same need (social activities) - like gathering with your neighbors, singing, performing arts, clubs, parks and paries are available and great.

You are saying that you don't care. There are people who care. He does and brings in good reasons why the defaults shouldn't be spurious alarms and noise.

Feminism, like other -isms (communism, etc) are misaligned at the core. I'd say, feminism would be best to be erased, like other -isms.

Discrimination violates equality, rule of law, etc. If there is really a problem, the situation should be dealt with recording and policing, not with discrimination or turning the place into a place where being a victim is rewarded. Otherwise it's a slippery slope.

Uber should let men drivers and riders request to avoid being paired with women and other genders

In case of an ML model either a very good description or that single reference could be added to the context.

More recent models are not without drive and are not stupid either.

There’s still quite a bit of a gap in terms of trust.

You can compare best image synthesis and image understanding from two decades ago (SIFT / HOG), from a decade ago (CNN, SdA) and now (Transformer). Very rapid progress that went from being able to unreliability recognize a face to getting to outperforming human professionals (see MMMU) is quite remarkable.

They did. They’ve just released codex (CLI client).

They don’t have access to copilot users in general, Microsoft and Google does. And perhaps they are realizing that Microsoft is hedging them over multiple LLM providers and maybe no longer feeding them juicy copilot data, with humans in a tight loop, correcting LLMs.

It’s weird that you are saying it’s unambiguously illegal. AFAIK, in some cases used for training were initially created by non-profits and transformed sufficiently to strip the copyrights.

Yes, it’s particularly bad when the information found on the web is flawed.

For example, I’m not a domain expert, but I was looking for an RC motor for a toy project and OpenAI had happily tried to source a few, with Deep Research. Only the best candidate it had picked contained an obvious typo in the motor spec (68 grams instead of 680 grams), which is just impossible for a motor of specified dimensions.

Try o4-mini-high. It’s getting there.

Nice, next step could be rolling out that bytecode compiler in Python, so it’s self-contained. And a port to some LLM-on-silicon, so we could have it executing Python as the inference goes :-P

The other countries could have tried less corruption and fewer palaces and yachts for their nobility. And a few more opportunities to earn a decent lifestyle with nothing, but a brain and hard work.