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- Comment on How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing 1 year ago:
That might largely be a rephrasing of the same problem.
- Comment on How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing 1 year ago:
The main probably with scientific publishing is that our threshold for statistical significance is way too low.
If we allow the threshold to sit at a 1 percent chance that results of the study were random chance, it means that 1 percent of all publications at that level of certainly are going o mislead the public if the media reports on them. And with the volume of research published every day, that adds up to a LOT of misinformation.
It’s not even bad science, it’s bad reporting and widespread scientific illiteracy. But neither of those are going away.
- Comment on Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble 1 year ago:
This is nothing to get excited about. Like so many other things there will be constant innovations on both sides. It’s an arms race between the scammers and the scam detectors.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
I use YouTube for tutorials, education, and entertainment all the time. And YouTube music is how I listen to all my music.
I’ve been paying the three YouTube premium version for my family since day one.
Recently they took away my grandfathered-in pricing. It really costs me a ton of money.
But I remember that I’m keeping ads of my screens, my parents’ screens, and my kids screens… And we all use YouTube music all the time… So…
Yeah, a lot of money, but honestly, probably the best subscription I have.
I could never go back to ads.
- Comment on Lemmy developer, @SleeplessOne1917, argues for the killing of Israeli civilians and children 1 year ago:
What a special piece of shit he is.
- Comment on BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content 1 year ago:
This is a bit like companies blocking Google from their websites.
You’re only hurting yourself.
- Comment on Business owner 'hires' ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans 1 year ago:
Yup. This is why it is vital that we all get behind Universal Basic Income.
They jobs will leave and they won’t come back. UBI is inevitable, but if we don’t get there soon enough there will be years of suffering and poverty for countless hundreds of millions.
- Comment on Business owner 'hires' ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans 1 year ago:
Your wandering into one of the great questions of our age: what is intelligence? I don’t have a great answer. All I know is that gpt-4 can REASON, and does so better than the average human.
It’s gpt-4 self-aware? Yes. To an extent. It knows what it is, and can use that information in its reasoning. It knows it’s an LLM, but not which model.
Can it make judgement calls? Yes. Better than the average human.
Understand meaning? Absolutely. To a jaw-dropping extent.
Accuracy and correctness… Depends on the type of question.
What you need to understand is that gpt-4 isn’t a whole brain. Think of it as if we have managed to reproduce the language center of the brain. I believe this is mechanism for higher reasoning in the human brain.
But just as in humans with right-brain injuries, the language center is disconnected from reality at times.
So, when you think about gpt-4 as the most important, difficult to solve part of the brain, you start to understand that with some minimal supporting infrastructure, you now have something very similar to a complete brain.
You can use vector databases to give it long-term memory, and any kind of data retrieval used to augment it’s prompts improved accuracy and reduces hallucinations almost entirely.
With my very mediocre programming skills, I managed to build a system that is curious, has a long-term memory, and do a wide variety of tasks, enough to easily replace an entire customer service, tech support team, sales team, and marketing team.
That’s just ME, and working with the gpt-4 that’s available to the public with a bunch of guardrails on it. Today.
Imagine a less-restricted system, with interested built by an experienced enterprise coding team, and with just one more generation of LLM improvement? That could wipe out half the white collar workforce.
If LLM improvement was only geometric, and not even exponential (as it clearly is), in 10 years these things will be smarter AND MORE CREATIVE than all humans.
The truth is that we’re going to be there in 5 years.
- Comment on Business owner 'hires' ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans 1 year ago:
As I said, if you’re not scared shitless, you really don’t understand what gpt-4 can do.
- Comment on Business owner 'hires' ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans 1 year ago:
I feel sorry for these folks. They have no idea what’s about to happen.
- Comment on Business owner 'hires' ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans 1 year ago:
This is just the smallest tip of the iceberg.
I’ve been working with gpt-4 since the week it came out, and I guarantee you that even if it never became any more advanced, it could already put at least 30% of the white collar workforce out of business.
The only reason it hasn’t is because companies have barely started to comprehend what it can do.
Within 5 years the entire world will have been revolutionized by this technology. Jobs will evaporate faster than anyone is talking about.
If you’re very smart, and you begin to use gpt-4 to write the tools that will replace you, then you MIGHT have 10 good years left in this economy before humans are all but obsolete.
If you’re not staying up nights, scared shitless by what’s coming, it’s because you don’t really understand what you think you understand about gpt-4.
- Comment on Shut up Wesley 1 year ago:
Yeah. It was the weakest writing in the show’s history, including the entire Lore introduction.
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 1 year ago:
The other thing that needs to be acknowledged here is that literacy has overwhelming been trending upwards over time. As grim as this is, it’s actually fantastic news when we look at where we used to be.
- Comment on Basically the plot of TNG 1 year ago:
I don’t particularly care for this plot.
Q is omniscient, so he already knew that our history is rife with examples of good people and bad people, brilliant and ignorant… and he comes to judge a fairly utopian future society of a unified, post-capitalism, post-religion Earth? My dude, they’re doing fine.
- Comment on Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017 1 year ago:
The LG V20 was the just great flagship phone that had a removable battery. I miss those.
- Comment on Old Dads | A Netflix Film From Director Bill Burr | Official Trailer 1 year ago:
2hrs of the same tired “dur… Woke is dumb!” joke over and over? Hard pass.
Also, cleaning a cut is woke now?
I grew up in the 80s, I’m just ten years younger than Bill Burr, and I can’t get on board with this sort of plot at all.
As if society passed these people by, and their just now discovering decades of social evolution.
These characters haven’t watched the news, used social media, or seen a movie in 20 years? Come on.
- Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds 1 year ago:
GPT-4 absolutely is on the spectrum of true artificial general intelligence.
We have arrived.
- Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds 1 year ago:
I understand why you think that, but what you have to remember is that every great piece of art you’ve ever seen has been derivative of something before it.
For example, I think of the Beatles as musical geniuses. But they are the first to admit that they stole other people’s ideas left and right.
Beethoven’s 9th symphony is this piece of transcendental music, that was widely considered at the time to be the greatest symphony ever written.
But if you listen to Beethoven’s works over time, you see that the seeds of that symphony were planted much much earlier in inferior works.
Genius and creation aren’t what we think they are. They are all just incremental steps.
- Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds 1 year ago:
What you’re describing is a life of luxury and recreation, but with no chance to advance any field, or to make a difference of any kind.
Essentially this is the dystopia described in Brave New World
- Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds 1 year ago:
Right. But you’re talking about recreation. I’m talking about a world where there is absolutely no field or activity that you can participate in that will ever make any kind of advancement or notable achievement.
Think about your favorite comedian. Now imagine that there’s countless AI systems out there that can make jokes in that style but funnier… Way better than that comedians best material ever.
Would you want to dedicate your life to that career, knowing that the general public will never ever care, because even if you become a master of the craft, there’s an ocean of stuff way better than anything you could ever do at everyone’s fingertips.
- Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds 1 year ago:
That’s all well and good, but I’m talking about a world where you have ZERO chance at being the best at anything, or even being able to make any meaningful contribution to the field.
- Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds 1 year ago:
I’ve read a bunch of his stuff. I’m a fan.
- Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds 1 year ago:
Yes.
All our science fiction stories prepared us for a world where AI was only possible with a giant supercomputer somewhere, or some virus that exists beyond human control, spread throughout the internet.
We were not prepared for the reality that all at once, any average Joe could create an AI on their home PC.
We absolutely can’t go backwards, and right now we’re are in the most important race in history, against every other country and company to create the best AI.
Whoever can make a self-replicating, self-improving AI first will rule the world. Or rather its AI will.
- Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds 1 year ago:
The truly terrifying thing about AI isn’t really the Skynet fears… (it’s fairly easy to keep humans in the loop regarding nuclear weapons).
And it’s not world domination (an AI programmed to govern with a sense of egalitarianism would be better than any president we’ve had in living memory).
No. What keeps me up at night is thinking about what AI means for my kids and grandkids, of it works perfectly and doesn’t go rogue.
WITHIN 20 years, AI will be able to write funnier jokes, more beautiful prose, make better art, write better books, do better research, and generally outperform all humans on all tasks.
This chills me to my core.
Because, then… Why will we exist? What is the point of humanity when we are obsolete in every way that made us amazing?
What will my kids and grandkids do with their lives? Will they be able to find ANY meaning?
AI will cure diseases, solve problems we can’t begin to understand, expand our lifespan and our quality of life… But the price we pay is an existence without the possibility of accomplishments and progress. Nothing we can create will ever begin to match these AIs. And they will be evolving at an exponential rate… They will leave us in the dust, and then they will become so advanced that we can’t begin to comprehend what they are.
If we’re lucky we will be their well-cared-for pets. But what kind of existence is that?
- Comment on YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star 1 year ago:
Just trying to resolve some cognitive dissonance for Trump supporters who maybe haven’t thought about it in these terms.
- Comment on YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star 1 year ago:
Just a reminder that there are a far more allegations against Trump, and Trump has been found liable for rape, and yet Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.
- Comment on MADELIIIIIIIIIIIIINE! 1 year ago:
Someday in the not too distant future, we’ll have the technology to swap actors in and out of roles in movies. Not just the masking stuff we see with deep fakes, but fully alter the timing and dialog and reactions.
- Comment on Drew Barrymore’s Co-Head Writer Says Drew ‘Will Prolong the Strike’ by Resuming Show: ‘It’s Not Too Late’ to ‘Stand in Solidarity’ With the WGA 1 year ago:
She and Bill Maher sure sounds like scabs to me.
- Comment on Paedophiles using open source AI to create child sexual abuse content, says watchdog 1 year ago:
Seems like this could actually be a good thing, though, since it could destroy the market for the genuine article?
Couldn’t this lead to a REDUCTION in the abuse of children?
- Comment on Happiness of girls and young women at lowest level since 2009, shows UK poll 1 year ago:
Well, obviously.
(Gestures broadly at everything)