davidgro
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- Comment on For security reasons 5 days ago:
The image says they also exclude + and -.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't believe the AI extinction lie 1 week ago:
I gotta go for now, but one quick note:
“While the man hunted the deer ran into the forest”
Actually looked too good to be an original creation from an LLM to me, and sure enough it’s not. (About half way down)
I was actually looking up the one about the horse when I found that page. - Comment on Why you shouldn't believe the AI extinction lie 1 week ago:
An interesting criteria, why does going back to edit (instead of correcting itself mid-stream)
I suppose those would be equivalent, I just haven’t seen it done (at least not properly) - the example you posted earlier with the siblings for example was showing how it could only append more text and not actually produce corrections.
Couldn’t you perform this test on any animal with a discrete brain?
Oh, right. Animals do exist. It simply hadn’t occurred to me at that moment, even though there is one right next to me taking a nap. However a lot of them are capable of more rational thought than LLMs are. Even bees can count reasonably well. Anyway, defining human level intelligence is a hard problem. Determining it is even harder, but I still say it’s feasible to say some things aren’t it.
[Garden path sentences]
No good. The difference between a good garden path and simple ambiguity is that the ‘most likely’ interpretation when the reader is halfway down the sentence turns out to be ungrammatical or nonsense by the end. The way LLMs work, they don’t like to put words together in an order that they don’t usually occur, even if in the end there’s a way to interpret it to make sense.
The example it made with the keys is particularly bad because the two meanings are nearly identical anyway.
Just for fun I’ll try to make one here:
“After dealing with the asbestos, I was asked to lead paint removal.”
Might not work, the meaningful interpretation could be too obvious compared to the toxic metal, but it has the right structure.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't believe the AI extinction lie 1 week ago:
What would convince me that we may be on the right path: Besides huge improvements in reasoning, it would (like I mentioned) need to be able to learn - and not just track previous text, I mean permanently adding or adjusting the weights (or equivalent) of the model.
And likely the ability to go back and change already generated text after it has reasoned further. Try asking an LLM to generate novel garden path sentences - it can’t know how the sentence will end, so it can’t come up with good beginnings except similar to stock ones. (That said it’s not a skill I personally have either, but humans can do it certainly.)
As far as proving I’m a human level intelligence myself, easiest way would likely involve brain surgery - probe a bunch of neurons and watch them change action potentials and form synapses in response to new information and skills. But short of that, at the current state of the art I can prove it by stating confidently that Samantha has 1 sister. (Note: that thread was a reply to someone else, but I’m watching the whole article’s comments)
- Comment on Why you shouldn't believe the AI extinction lie 1 week ago:
In your case that was a motor control issue, not a flaw in reasoning. In the LLM case it’s a pure implementation of a Chinese Room and the “book and pencils” (weights) randomly generate text that causes humans to experience textual pareidolia more often than not.
It can be useful - that book is very large, and contains a lot of residue of valid information and patterns, but the way it works is not how intelligence works (still an open question of course, but ‘not that way’ is quite clear.)
This is not to say that true AI is impossible - I believe it is possible, but it will have to be implemented differently. At the very least, it will need the ability to self-modify in real time (learning)
- Comment on Why you shouldn't believe the AI extinction lie 1 week ago:
I believe true AI might in fact be an extinction risk. Not likely, but not impossible. It would have to end up self-improving and wildly outclass us, then could be a threat.
Of course the fancy autocomplete systems we have now are in no way true AI.
- Comment on Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets 3 weeks ago:
I think by standalone they mean ‘no PC’. Like the Quest ones that run the games on themselves.
- Comment on speedometers 3 weeks ago:
It would still be possible to answer the speed question, you just get different answers for different substances (and even phases of the same substance) at the same temperature.
Since something like water does have those additional ways to store energy, my guess is it would be slower at room temp than another liquid with less complex molecules that have about the same mass each. (If there is such a thing)
Also I expect different answers for each of mean, median, and mode speeds.
- Comment on stegosaurus 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Palestinian Relief Bundle by ghosthunter and 358 others 4 weeks ago:
So… Are any of them good? So far I haven’t even recognized any.
A lot of them are listed as TTRPGs (which I assume is a PDF of rules) and most of the rest look like game jam entries. (Something slapped together in a few days)
- Comment on mmm space chocolate 4 weeks ago:
Now that would be a Real Genius launch.
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
In most media time machines are also teleporters - many are explicitly so, with the destination space needing to be chosen at the same time as the destination time, but even when that’s not shown they still make the time traveller suddenly vanish and then just suddenly reappear elsewhen.
One movie I’ve seen with a more “realistic” time machine is Primer. It’s not at all a teleporter or portal. Very slight spoiler:
It sidesteps the whole issue that OP presents because the place where you exit the machine after traveling is just where the machine is when it’s turned on to begin with. You can’t time travel outside the machine, including to before it exists, and your path (in all four dimensions) is contiguous.
- Comment on barn owls 5 weeks ago:
I’ve often wondered that about house flies.
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 5 weeks ago:
My main account there is nothing like this, even the shorts are mostly pop science stuff.
But my other account is very much this way on purpose, much like my other Lemmy account, X account (really the only one I use anymore), etc.
- Comment on duck duck 5 weeks ago:
I’m going to assume that there is no context here that I’m missing.
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- Comment on get infamous, yeah! 1 month ago:
Sturbly
- Comment on My moon is in Silty Loam but my Sun sign is Clay. 1 month ago:
The lines to follow are the ones at the angle that the little arrow points. Which is ‘down and to the right’ from each side if you put that side on top
- Comment on Would you drink breast milk if it was commercially available? 1 month ago:
One thing I’ve heard mentioned is that the vegan restriction on animal milk is actually about consent, which humans can give (especially when paid), so human milk can be vegan. That opens up the possibility of vegan cheese, butter, etc. but as true dairy products. Seems like an untapped niche to me.
- Comment on This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser 1 month ago:
It’s a Chromebook. That’s just the real answer to OP’s issue regardless of where they ask about it.
- Comment on Anon likes public humiliation 1 month ago:
An example I like is that alchemy didn’t turn lead to gold, but it did lead to chemistry.
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 1 month ago:
Since I don’t see it yet…
Super Hexagon
It’s one of the simplest games possible, the controls are “clockwise” and “counterclockwise”, and there are no distracting characters, setting, or story.
And yet the easiest level is – quite accurately – labeled as difficulty “Hard”. The next 5 levels (6 total) go way up in difficulty (and labelling) from there.
Each level lasts 60 seconds. If you can survive that long. I’ve never unlocked the final level myself, so I don’t even know what it is like, but I can guess.
- Comment on 36 flavors 1 month ago:
I’ll never understand how anyone likes the taste of the black ones.
- Comment on temperature 2 months ago:
Only Kelvin is like that
False. Rankine is too.
I didn’t find any others in a quick glance at the wiki, but it would be easy to imagine a scale like 0 at absolute zero, and 100 at the freezing point of water or something.
- Comment on I'm at a roulette table. I only bet on red. When I lose I triple my bet, when I win I restart. Is this a roulette strategy? 3 months ago:
This is good.
For example, with a million dollar pot and tripling the bet, usually less than 1000 games is safe, you’ll win a small percentage over the initial amount.But sometimes…
- Comment on I'm at a roulette table. I only bet on red. When I lose I triple my bet, when I win I restart. Is this a roulette strategy? 3 months ago:
That’s a reason OP went with tripling the bet instead of the more common doubling when people independently discover this system.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
If you want the rest of the specs to be decent, then that day is fast approaching or already here.
I had to jump from a phone that had about 5.5 of the features on that list to one with none of them (although I do like the extra cameras) and I hate that I had to do that.
But I kept “Easily rootable” and that’s what really matters to me.
- Comment on Anon takes an IQ test 4 months ago:
Given the results, Anon just possibly might not have noticed anything was off…
- Comment on Anon is in high school 4 months ago:
Something that may have been this happened to me in high school. A girl came up to me in the hall between classes and said something along the lines of wanting to ask me out or admit a crush or similar. I gave a confused look, then noticed what I took to be other girls behind her looking at us and giggling.
I told her ‘now I get it’, that her friends put her up to it. And I left.
I’ll never know if I was right, or if they were giggling because they were teenagers and she finally got the courage, or if they were even her friends.
For my own benefit I have chosen to believe I was right at the time. - Comment on Anon is in hell 4 months ago:
You mean they are lurking moar.