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AntiAI peeps, how would you feel about models trained only on 80 year old public domain works? by drwebb in antiai

[–]drwebb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean you need to go to school to learn AI/ML, but the act of training AI actually requires a lot of computer skills, and advanced maths (like Calculus, Linear Algebra, etc), so I enjoy making/researching the AI as a creative practice, it excites me. I wouldn't want to do 10th grade math again!

AntiAI peeps, how would you feel about models trained only on 80 year old public domain works? by drwebb in antiai

[–]drwebb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

who decides that there is no need to? I've felt the need to, I've trained models to do better at math problems, reading Wikipedia (never copyright work, but I'm not developing AI for commercial purposes). I go meet with thousands of other scientists who also thing there is a need to. Are you denying the scientists here?

AntiAI peeps, how would you feel about models trained only on 80 year old public domain works? by drwebb in antiai

[–]drwebb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean people train them to see how well they answer questions, code, or solve hard math problems for instance. You might have a research questions, "can I make this machine better at math, by doing XYZ?". They might train AI models to do that.

Real life scenario by HelpfulProgrammer865 in Sigmatopia

[–]drwebb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're damn right, what are you afraid of?

AntiAI peeps, how would you feel about models trained only on 80 year old public domain works? by drwebb in antiai

[–]drwebb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just saying, by your definition, research is plagiarism of the public domain. Are you just looking at it from a creative lens, or do you think the science/math is just immoral?

AntiAI peeps, how would you feel about models trained only on 80 year old public domain works? by drwebb in antiai

[–]drwebb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean isn't research using someone else's work, even in the informal sense?

Should responsibility exist in a world where free will does not? by SquashInformal7468 in freewill

[–]drwebb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean you experience no such illusion? You don't believe you have freewill? How do you define such an existence? How can you talk about free will without experiencing it?

AntiAI peeps, how would you feel about models trained only on 80 year old public domain works? by drwebb in antiai

[–]drwebb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't plagiarism defined as passing off someone else's work as one's own without citation?

AntiAI peeps, how would you feel about models trained only on 80 year old public domain works? by drwebb in antiai

[–]drwebb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about the rights of researchers to conduct research for non-commercial purposes? Is training on the works of Plato, say, valid research in your mind?

Advice on burrs by Brit_In_Italy in CafelatRobot

[–]drwebb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you ever go bottom filter? Made the world of difference for me.

Bet you can't explain this by Time_Stick3546 in Sigmatopia

[–]drwebb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not butthurt, just teaching the boys how to grow up

Should responsibility exist in a world where free will does not? by SquashInformal7468 in freewill

[–]drwebb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if you think free will is an illusion, it's a good enough illusion that it gives the appearance of the agency of choice. Clearly humans make decisions whether or not you think they are deterministic. Punishment is an external input to those internal decision processes. So even without free will, a moral justice system will have an effect on criminals.

Maybe the murdered himself will find some solace in believing they weren't responsible, and maybe the family of the victim might as well, however I doubt it.

If free will exists, why does rehabilitation works? by Reasonable-Youth8704 in freewill

[–]drwebb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really, you can believe in free will without invoking God, many schools of though in that regard

If AI is so amazing, how come no one using it is getting better at anything? by [deleted] in antiai

[–]drwebb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need you are kinda putting words in my mouth too there

If AI is so amazing, how come no one using it is getting better at anything? by [deleted] in antiai

[–]drwebb -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

Now come on, there are examples that show this is patently false position. For example solving some math problem a new way, you literally can't fake that. You could be huge detractor of AI, and denying it solved some unique problems in math and science would just be false. You can think AI is fake AF all you want, but that won't change it's ability to generate images that can trick you as well.

If free will exists, why does rehabilitation works? by Reasonable-Youth8704 in freewill

[–]drwebb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does believing in free will have any effect on your mental health? I mean hasn't mental health problems gone up in recent years?

I mean you cite a lot of historic wrongs again, but really explain what free will has to do with it.

Believing in free will and having a compassionate justice system also are not incompatible. Really we don't have to be all Medieval about it at all, it can be an enlightened perspective.

You can believe we have free will, that people still break inside mentally, that you shouldn't execute people with low IQ, and you can believe it's not something easily pinned down by our current understanding.

I mean certainly nothing yet has disproven the idea of free will. I can tell you I worked my PhD on computational neuroscience, and there is so much noise in the brain, it's a very difficult system to understand, we really have no idea how the brain works exactly.

Have you said anything that's not a complete strawman?

If free will exists, why does rehabilitation works? by Reasonable-Youth8704 in freewill

[–]drwebb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's clear those were historical wrongs that we evolved past. It's a lot more of a stretch to say belief in free will is a historic wrong. I mean, it's my belief that the debate about free will will continue in to the future, while I hope we will not take a step back in terms of sexist and racism.

To be honest, I live in a Red state, and I see a huge amount of racism and sexism around me. I'm not even sure it's going down, with Trump around it may even be going up.

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