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I keep forgetting that that's an option

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And if you try long enough, maybe you can identify someone else's idea to steal and profit from!

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Quiet? Polite? Easily ignored? Those are the protesters they like.

ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study (gizmodo.com)

The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....

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GPT-2 came out a little more than 5 years ago, it answered 0% of questions accurately and couldn't string a sentence together.

GPT-3 came out a little less than 4 years ago and was kind of a neat party trick, but I'm pretty sure answered ~0% of programming questions correctly.

GPT-4 came out a little less than 2 years ago and can answer 48% of programming questions accurately.

I'm not talking about mortality, or creativity, or good/bad for humanity, but if you don't see a trajectory here, I don't know what to tell you.

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Perhaps there is some line between assuming infinite growth and declaring that this technology that is not quite good enough right now will therefore never be good enough?

Blindly assuming no further technological advancements seems equally as foolish to me as assuming perpetual exponential growth. Ironically, our ability to extrapolate from limited information is a huge part of human intelligence that AI hasn't solved yet.

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No clue? Somewhere between a few years (assuming some unexpected breakthrough) or many decades? The consensus from experts (of which I am not) seems to be somewhere in the 2030s/40s for AGI. I'm guessing accuracy probably will be more on a topic by topic basis, LLMs might never even get there, or only related to things they've been heavily trained on. If predictive text doesn't do it then I would be betting on whatever Yann LeCun is working on.

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I've always felt Green is Science, Blue is Math, Red is English

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This is very much the type of case that settles out of court for an undisclosed amount of money.

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And now it's time to go back out.

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I have to get all of my (non money earning) work in the morning before even opening my phone. As soon as the social media gets going my motivation to do anything creative and engaging drops.

I've tried focusing on creative/artistic communities to try and inspire myself.....but it just doesn't work. I think the passive intake of media ends up scratches the same itch in a much less fulfilling way.

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The planet will be fine. Completely inhospitable for human life, sure, but the planet itself will manage.

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I only take on gross work, as per rhyming conventions gross work is your gross worth.

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I imagine it's fairly easy for them to get a permit with all the cops already on board.

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I've seen a lot of comments like this for a lot of years...

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The company is offering affected users a 30 percent discount on a new Ecobee thermostat, valid for up to 15 thermostats.

...

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Or, if you're trying to make it more directly comparable to 17 million (because humans aren't great at implicitly comparing that many zeros), that would be 56,000 millions. It's not how we normally say it, but 17 vs 56,000 feels different than 17 million vs 56 billion.

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whatever the hell ‘X’ is supposed to be

It's the social media company he founded, obviously.

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Which is why AI should tell end users “I don’t know” more often.

If you feel this is a simple solution, I strongly suggest you write up exactly how you do this and make yourself a billion dollars.

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"I paid off all of my student loans myself, it's not fair for the government just forgive loans from other people!"

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From what I understand the bonus requires shareholder approval...so the people making that choice are the same ones watching the stock tank and continuing to hold (or buy more)...

I don't know why one would do that without thinking Elon is playing some super-advanced 5D Checkers.

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

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If I purchase a TV, that I now own, and after I own it the company "updates" my TV that I now have to watch ads in order to use the TV I purchased without that condition?

At minimum it's a breach of contract

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

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Increasing profit margins....which is the thing our society puts above all else.

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Until we either solve the problem of LLMs providing false information or the problem of people being too lazy to fact check their work, this is probably the correct course of action.

‘Mamma Mia!’ Stage Star Sara Poyzer Replaced By AI On BBC Show To Recreate Voice Of Dying Person — Update (deadline.com)

The BBC has issued a statement that offers important context to Sara Poyzer’s viral social media posts. The British broadcaster said it is using AI technology in a “highly sensitive documentary” to represent the voice of a person who is nearing the end of their life....

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I'm not making any moral judgements one way or the other, but I have a strong feeling kids today are just going to grow up with this stuff and it will be normalized and we are going to be the weird old prudes who have a weird sense of personal identity connected to our physical appearance and voice while they're going around looking like SpongeBob and talking like The Fonz.

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It's where all the adults today got their ideas about the future.

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Yes, so they take your money, donate it to a cause that they are aligned with (possibly under the same corporate structure) take a tax credit on a portion of what you gave them to donate (which helps reduce their tax burden to near-zero), and enrich their friends in the process.

At least in the US the part about individuals getting a tax break would only apply if they're itemizing their deductions which usually works out to be higher tax rate than the standard deduction for the majority of people.

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I've sat through 2 murder trials and between the testimony and pictures I can confidently say I'm really not interested in the detailed reality of horrific murders.

But to each their own, I guess.

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I think it helps separate you from the victims. If you feel that you wouldn't have made the same mistakes as the people who went and got murdered, then it feels a lot less like something that might happen to you.

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Annual earnings? Weekly wages? Hourly wages? Are they taking into account things like voluntary overtime?

The study points to a growing gap up to the 54-59 age group and attribute it to women raising children, but I wonder if there is more of a generational gap there between the salary demands (and perceived self worth) of women who grew up in the 1970's compared to more recently.

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Emergent behavior is pretty much anything an old model couldn't do that a new model can. Simple reasoning, creating coherent sentences, "theory of mind", basic math, translation, I think are a few examples.

They aren't "amazing" in the sense that a human can't do them, but they are in the sense that a computer is doing it.

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The hype around AI language models has companies scrambling to hire prompt engineers to improve their AI queries and create new products.

Who is hiring all these prompt engineers? Who is 'scrambling' to find people for this? The jobs I do see have basically replaced "developer" with "prompt engineer" with the same job requirements.

HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It (www.extremetech.com)

In addition to tracking the printer’s online or offline status, page count, and ink levels, your rented printer will look at the types of documents you’re printing (e.g., PDF, JPG, Word), the types of devices that initiated the print job, “peripheral devices,” and other “metrics” related to the service, the All-In...

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Do "printers" have an approval rating? Because I bet it's low.

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Kricfalusi's lawyer confirmed that "for a brief time, 25 years ago, he had a 16-year-old girlfriend", but denied that Kricfalusi's "avid pursuit" of Rice was sexual harassment or that he had ever possessed child pornography.[100] Kricfalusi released an apology to the women and his fans for his behavior, which he said was motivated by undiagnosed bipolar disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well as "poor impulse control".[5] Byrd and Rice criticized Kricfalusi's statement as a non-apology and an attempt to deflect the blame.[101]

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or some high person in charge decided to go all-or-nothing

I don't see what Elon's drug use and increasingly irratic decision-making have to to with this.

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If it doesn't continue to receive software updates/support I would almost hope it can be disabled. Like what happened with that bionic eye company recently.

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If you actually need the end result to be good though, you’re gonna be waiting a while.

I agree with everything you said, but it seems in the context of AI development "a while" is like, a few years.

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I don't think he's an incompetent moron so much as he's made (himself) a ton of money in multiple industries by lying to manipulate stock prices confidently overestimating his products and deadlines.

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........I'm not supposed to be talking about that?

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Hey! It took years of hard work to develop the good will necessary to get into a position to take advantage of their data!

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Middle management only cares that it looks like you're working (and thus their job of supervising you doing the work is necessary (apparently)), and upper management only cares that you're making them money.

Cryptographers Just Got Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches (www.wired.com)

" three researchers have crafted a long-sought version of private information retrieval and extended it to build a more general privacy strategy. The work, which received a Best Paper Award in June 2023 at the annual Symposium on Theory of Computing, topples a major theoretical barrier on the way to a truly private search."

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Just in time for all the searchable information to be completely drowned out by low quality AI content.

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I find both parts of that troubling and unsurprising.

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Frog: "Hey, did any of you guys notice the water get a couple degrees hotter?"

Other Frogs: Already boiled alive

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It seems very easy to change the future in unintended ways, and much less easy to change it in expected ways.

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