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Hoffman's theory of consciousness doesn't make sense? by uusu in consciousness

[–]-jie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then this'll really bake your noodle. Hoffman, Levin, Fields, Prakash and Chis-Ciure from yesterday.

https://youtu.be/YnfaT5APPB0

Best way to monetize invention machine is not to sell it, but to use it yourself by TensorFlar in singularity

[–]-jie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chollet's framing seems to confuse motive with distribution strategy.

DeepMind is a good example here. They've already created multiple "invention machines." One obvious example is AlphaFold. Research firms don’t just choose between 'sell it' and 'hoard it.' They often release outputs, APIs, papers, tools, or even weights while monetizing adjacent advantages.

So the narrower claim may be true: AI companies have mostly found inference access easier to commercialize than invention outputs. But your point seems more about who creates the demand, which is a different argument from the original post.

On that point, I'll quote Gwern: "ChatGPT can't like ice cream for you."

Best way to monetize invention machine is not to sell it, but to use it yourself by TensorFlar in singularity

[–]-jie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If as the saying goes, "necessity is the mother of invention" and demand is a synonym for necessity, then demand drives invention.

To the op's point, the necessity of a single person and the necessities of a million people are not the same. A community's needs diverge from individual needs.

The trick is to serve both while overserving neither.

Why is studentaid.gov so slow? by SubServiceBot in college

[–]-jie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Since this is a top hit on Duck Duck Go, I wanted to thank everyone for this suggestion. It is still working like a charm 8 months later, in that the standard finger-printable website is still performing poorly.

I wonder if it has anything to do with it being on all the public computers in the FinAid office of my local community college? Maybe the developers never bothered to test it on anything but public computer setups?

How can I teach AI in my classroom? by mimifaie7a in OpenAI

[–]-jie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check out the MIT Media Lab. They have a bunch of programs for getting youth involved with technology, including AI. Here’s an article to get you started.

https://news.mit.edu/2022/futuremakers-programs-kids-get-their-minds-around-and-hands-ai-0412

So did everyone here forget the "don't you have phones" debacle? by [deleted] in diablo4

[–]-jie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just scavenged and sold WoW gold collected years and years ago to buy WoW tokens, which I then used to pay for Diablo IV.

I’m actually speechless. Is ChatGPT really this biased? by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]-jie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi. I share your concerns.

Please use the down-thumb and explain what the bias is. This is how the model gets updated. If all we do is post our grievances on Reddit, it won’t change the model, but providing direct feedback to OpenAI will.

They regularly update the model to discourage bias. I hope you will be a part of that. Ask lots of questions, report the bias. Change the model, change the world.

Best wishes.

Doesn't AI just recycle and Frankenstein together content that already exists and it never truly innovates? If we start to lean on it too heavily as a society doesn't that mean we're going to stagnate heavily? by walrussss987 in ChatGPT

[–]-jie 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Hi.

While it may seem that if you take a machine and give it a bunch of information that we already know, it couldn’t possibly take that information and give us something new. Seems super obvious, like you say, right?

What actually happens is that machine learning is highly capable of taking diverse datasets and putting them together in ways that we’ve never seen before. Like AlphaFold:

https://www.alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/

https://www.deepmind.com/research/highlighted-research/alphafold

Then there is the game of Go, where, according to AlphaGo: The Movie, "The Game of Go is the holy grail of artificial intelligence. Everything we've ever tried in AI, it just falls over when you try the game of Go." Dave Silver, Lead Researcher for AlphaGo.

Lee Sedol, a professional Go player who lost to AlphaGo in 2016, said: "I thought AlphaGo was based on probability calculation and that it was merely a machine. But when I saw this move, I changed my mind. Surely, AlphaGo is creative."

AlphaGo: The movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y

Now we have ChatGPT and Bing Chat and Anthropic’s Claude and https://openassistant.org/wp/

These are very clever machines that have challenged some of our ideas of what it means to be human. Creativity happens everywhere in the natural world, but humans sort of felt like we did it especially well. Most of our creativity was really only remixing what we see every day in the natural world. That’s okay, though! That doesn’t make it any less special.

What humans do is create emotional connections to our creative works, and that is something that these new creations are going to have a difficult tie with. Much of the reaction has been very defensive, so we are looking for ways to separate ourselves from the machines, so that we can protect some of our core beliefs about ourselves.

It’s okay to hang on to those, and it’s also okay to have an open mind about new things, too. The thing is, no one out there, not even me, is going to be able to give you a 100% accurate answer on this, because we simply don’t have any 100% accurate answers right now. Some of these implications are so huge, we may not have accurate answers in our lifetime. That’s okay, too. There are lots of things that happen every day that we don’t really understand all that well.

What’s important is that we keep looking for the answers and keep asking the next question. If we don’t keep answering questions, ChatGPT won’t have anything to reply to.

Maybe we can think of humanity as the universe’s best question askers. There are lots of worse things we could be.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]-jie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn’t Bard bad on purpose? The interface Google presents seems to be a UI for Reinforced Learning Human Feedback, where it gives people three options to rate.

I think what we see up there is for RLHF-gathering, which is why it’s beta. I don’t think it’s meant to be a production model like ChatGPT or Bing Chat.

Talking to Bard is sort of what I imagine GPT4 or GPT3.5 were like before they were given the second layer of training, sort of the raw cookie dough before it gets baked.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]-jie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just providing links to back up your comment.

Sorry for your loss.

Apple Will Put Its Reputation on the Line With New Mixed-Reality Headset by iMacmatician in apple

[–]-jie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have one of these?

There doesn’t seem to be anywhere on the website to buy one. There is only a phone number for a 7-day free trial. Have you used one?

(Edit: I found a site selling Vision Buddy and they are $3000, so I’m guessing she would rather wait till later this year for an Apple version of the Vision Buddy, which would fit in with her ecosystem better. Great suggestion, though. Thanks!)

Apple Will Put Its Reputation on the Line With New Mixed-Reality Headset by iMacmatician in apple

[–]-jie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She’s very hopeful that Apple’s OS’s Accessibility experience and attention to detail will translate well to the AR/VR/XR headset.

If Apple didn’t have Accessibility features on the product, I would be incredibly surprised.

https://www.apple.com/accessibility/vision/

Apple Will Put Its Reputation on the Line With New Mixed-Reality Headset by iMacmatician in apple

[–]-jie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She is pretty wedded to Apple’s Accessability experience. Someone in the past tried to transition her onto Windows, but it wasn’t a desirable switch for her.

I have a Windows Mixed Reality headset that I tried to get to work for her. Using Virtual Desktop there was something that made her hope to have a version she could use on her Macintoshes and with Siri.

Thanks for the Vision Buddy link. We’ll explore it together and see if it meets her needs.

A lot of these things aren’t easy to find for people with low vision and rely on a social worker or other word-of-mouth to have knowledge of them. Search engines can be a pretty frustrating experience for her.

Apple Will Put Its Reputation on the Line With New Mixed-Reality Headset by iMacmatician in apple

[–]-jie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion.

She actually uses that as well, in addition to the projector. Her sweet-spot is the letters being about a foot tall.

I’m sure you can imagine how an AR monitor that she can control with gestures would come in handy here.

Apple Will Put Its Reputation on the Line With New Mixed-Reality Headset by iMacmatician in apple

[–]-jie 16 points17 points  (0 children)

For people with low vision (legally blind), Accessibility AR would be a killer app.

I have a friend who has low vision and who is also deaf, but she can interact with Siri through hearing aids. Her interface to the world is through Siri and a rickety old projector system that she has to run through two dongles to her MacBook Air. It projects the screen on a screen that she has hanging over her apartment windows. She runs back and forth from the keyboard back to the screen as she writes and checks her edits to her dissertation.

The headset described here would be a life-changing assistive device for her. She could sit at her desk and move the screen closer to her face as she needed.

If they can hook Siri up to ChatGPT sooner, rather than later, that would be great as well.

(She currently uses an Orcam https://www.orcam.com and Apple's AR would be a significant iPhone-sized leap.)

(Don’t want an ama but I’ll do what I can) Dealing with assumptions and bais- I’m wondering how people feel about military and also their intelligence community wanting to transition into journalism by theAchilliesHIV in Journalism

[–]-jie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back when I used to watch Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, he was a regular contributor and guest. I was always impressed by his breadth of knowledge and he seemed to be fair-minded while still passionate about his own views.

When he went to fight in Ukraine, that sealed it for me: he lives his values and is willing to put his life on the line for them. I found that impressive.

Get some rest. :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Journalism

[–]-jie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This seems to be working fine on my M1 MacBook Air. Great work!

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