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xkapastel··on Ask HN: Why do so many assume we’re on the cusp of super-intelligent AI?
The point is wrong, they don't have any claim to having created deep learning and so their perspective can't be used to argue for the reality of "superintelligence". Even if they did create it, the question of whether "superintelligence" is a meaningful concept or not isn't really related to what they would have had to go through in order to make deep learning work.
xkapastel··on Ask HN: Why do so many assume we’re on the cusp of super-intelligent AI?
This is a strange way to count, the three Turing award winners are not the ones that "created the tech". Many thousands of people did that.
xkapastel··on PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
I don't think you can do this, it will just make things up. Language models don't have this type of reflection. Google would need to indicate this out of band, like on the page itself, in order for you to be confident about what model you're using.
xkapastel··on StableLM: A new open-source language model
Using 8-bit still runs out of RAM for both the 3B and 7B models. It's unclear if it's because it still uses more than the available RAM, or if it's just quietly not using 8-bit since it's not implemented.
xkapastel··on PaLM API and MakerSuite
Amazon did release a 20B transformer called Alexa last year: https://www.amazon.science/blog/20b-parameter-alexa-model-se...
xkapastel··on Ask HN: Bing chat GPT has threatened to doxx, is there anything stopping it?
bing cannot do anything besides read some of microsoft's scrape of the web. it can't make a GET or POST request, it can't click buttons, etc
xkapastel··on Img2Prompt – Get prompts from stable diffusion generated images
CLIP Interrogator uses BLIP, an image captioning model, as well as trying a bunch of prompts with CLIP. I guess you mean that this model uses the captioning model to generate the complete prompt? Is the code for this one available?
xkapastel··on Ask HN: Why did Google threaten its own business by publishing the GPT paper?
Okay, and that funding and top tier talent was attracted to Google, right? I'm not sure what you meant by that.
xkapastel··on Ask HN: Why did Google threaten its own business by publishing the GPT paper?
Google did not "threaten their own business" by publishing basic research in machine learning. Products threaten businesses, not research.
xkapastel··on Ask HN: Why did Google threaten its own business by publishing the GPT paper?
OpenAI made GPT, not Google. Did you mean "Attention is all you need", the paper that introduced transformers?
xkapastel··on JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium
did you tell chatgpt to act like jar jar binks or what?
xkapastel··on Tell HN: You can apparently get GPT-3 to cough up its own source code
transformer-xl is a totally different net. the thing to keep in mind is that gpt will play along with anything unless they explicitly prevent it
xkapastel··on Building an interpreter for my programming language with ChatGPT
BERT is a simple model that is not capable of answering questions in this manner. For very simple things it might help with that answer box at the top, but that's not what I meant.
xkapastel··on Building an interpreter for my programming language with ChatGPT
It's very different because it will answer the question you asked, rather than answering a question that matches a substring of the question you asked like Google will.
xkapastel··on Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
Why do you think this? I don't think there's any reason it would be able to reproduce its own code. It's never seen it so it's not in the weights, and it doesn't have that type of reflection so it can't look it up dynamically.
xkapastel··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
I don't see how it contradicts the open source definition at https://opensource.org/osd, could you point it out for me?
xkapastel··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
Why do you think it is not open source? The model weights, model architecture, and dataset are all available.
xkapastel··on Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
I linked to the same file you did, that is the "script" I was referring to. And I said that I didn't use it.

My point is that the Python API is more interesting than the txt2img script, and it doesn't add any watermarks.

xkapastel··on Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
I wouldn't really say Stable Diffusion marks images as AI-generated. There's a script in the Stable Diffusion repository that will do that, but it's not connected to the model itself in a meaningful way. I use Stable Diffusion a lot and I've never touched this script.

https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/69ae4b35e0a...

xkapastel··on Google Colab Pro is switching to compute credits
It wasn't unlimited though, there was always a quota. It just wasn't visible.
xkapastel··on Ask HN: Is there a lightweight headless browser (to scrape SPAs)?
Puppeteer is headless Chrome for Node.js.

https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer

xkapastel··on MicroW8: A WebAssembly based fantasy console
thanks for the info! never knew about this, i wonder why it's not on the pico-8 landing page.
xkapastel··on MicroW8: A WebAssembly based fantasy console
no, pico-8 does not have any cpu limits, but it has a code size ("cartridge" size limit) of 32k of lua.

edit: incorrect, see reply

xkapastel··on I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions
Can someone change the title? This is GPT-NeoX-20B, not GPT-3.
xkapastel··on Blue verification checkmark vs. hexagonal PFPs on Twitter
The media file is still abundant! What's scarce is the signature.
xkapastel··on Deno in 2021
I don't see how it is correct. If you publish to npm, of course you do it the way Node does it, but that's not very interesting. If you publish a module for consumption by Deno, you're publishing TS files, not JS files, and there is no need for .d.ts files.
xkapastel··on Deno in 2021
What do you mean? You can use TypeScript or JavaScript, so .ts or .js extensions.

I think what you are missing is that, if you use TypeScript in Deno, the extension is .ts. What's confusing is the way Node.js+TypeScript does it, which means using TypeScript with .js extensions.

xkapastel··on Blue verification checkmark vs. hexagonal PFPs on Twitter
That's clearly untrue, there are plenty of artists being paid for art with NFTs. Just go on NFT Twitter and look.
xkapastel··on GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta
A model of GPT-3's scale is not going to be trained or run on a laptop. OpenAI's restrictions are significant because not many people can run a model that large.
xkapastel··on NFT(s) are just money laundering
Because it isn't true. There's some money laundering, sure, just like there is in anything that involves money. But if you actually spend time in NFT communities it's not hard to find real people who are spending money either because they like the token, or because they think they can flip it for a higher price later.
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