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Sai_··on MemoryCache: Augmenting local AI with browser data
I was going to ignore this as a troll comment because computer memory has its antecedents in human memory but the commenter is right - the combination of memory and cache to talk about human memory seems misleading.
Sai_··on If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
Yeah, I can’t believe Metallica recovered from that. In my mind, they’re up there with Volkswagen - their brand has a stigma attached to it.
Sai_··on Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI
Thanks for the thoughtful and in-depth response. I see what you’re saying and don’t have any rebuttals/followups.
Sai_··on How much land does a man need? (1886)
I got this message under the "why was I blocked?" which is why I didn't consider geoblocking.

> This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

Sai_··on How much land does a man need? (1886)
Apparently I’m a malicious attacker trying to read Tolstoy because cloudflare is blocking me from this page.
Sai_··on Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI
These examples of an LLM refusing to return meat recipes after inducing vegan behaviour through prompt injection could be a limitation of the original system prompt the LLM started with, no?

Could a tighter operating range specified in the system prompt along with lower temperature bands which cause less output variability help?

Side note - I saw upthread that you were looking to rebrand “prompt injection”. I propose “behaviour induction” or “induced behaviour”

Sai_··on San Francisco now at 35% office vacancy rate, highest ever recorded: data
And yet, our tv stations and metro editions of newspapers go on and on about the spirit of Mumbai.

Still, there’s no city like Mumbai in the whole of India. It’s literally got something for everyone.

Sai_··on DoorDash raises minimum pay to $29.93 per hour in NYC
Personal income tax and the tax treatment of businesses are different - as a business, you’d earn some revenue from doordash while showing some expense (like gas, insurance premiums, and your salary). Your company would then pay tax on the net and you’d pay tax on the salary you give yourself from your company.

Not a CPA so I’m pretty sure I’m oversimplifying this and there are lower bounds I don’t know about which prevent most gig workers from operating like this.

Sai_··on DoorDash raises minimum pay to $29.93 per hour in NYC
Can they not offset these expenses against their tax? If you’re running a business out of your vehicle, the cost of operating that vehicle is the cost of running the business which should be treated like that by the tax code.
Sai_··on Towards accurate differential diagnosis with large language models
You’re being dogmatic about your, what seems to me, objections to LLM skills.

Making data ingestible is just laborious and unappetising to an engineer. So hand it over to a data entry operator who’ll do this happily for a wage.

I’m not sure why the issue of making data available to an LLM is a failure of the LLM.

Btw, OpenAI’s LLM can very well parse images, read handwriting, fix sloppy spellings, and extract objects from unstructured data.

Sai_··on Child abduction case: Tom and Jerry cartoons helped police identify suspects
Not sure if one meltdown is the mean or even the median for how much time a kid takes to learn how to sit in one place without being distracted.

In any case, it doesn’t matter a whit if the average is one meltdown if your kid has gone without two consecutive meals. All this theorising goes out the window when the third meal is coming up and you’re struggling to get a morsel inside your kid. How many consecutive meals are you willing to let your kid skip on principle?

Comparing what we did in the past, how we lived in the past, what worked two decades ago is basically useless.

Phones exist. On demand entertainment exists. Kids know it. You know it. You aren’t putting any genie back in the bottle by trying to explain to your kid that since you grew up without being amused into eating, they need to do that too.

Sai_··on Child abduction case: Tom and Jerry cartoons helped police identify suspects
You got to do what you got to do otherwise you risk the kid going hungry or having a meltdown or both.

Being so black and white about sticking a video in front of a kid to make sure it sits in one place and eats is dismissive of parents who have to make these decisions in real time.

Do we know those kids don’t get play time with friends? Or down time to get bored and hence be forced to invent games in their own heads? We only see and opine on “bad” behaviour, not the what happens behind closed doors the remaining 23 hrs of the day when the kid is out of our line of sight.

Sai_··on Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?
GPT-4-turbo is at 128k. Claude 2.1 is 200k. But yes, among open source models 8k is roughly middle to top of the pack.
Sai_··on Henry Kissinger Has Died
Can you explain what you mean by this? On a moving train, having an open mind itself is a good thing.
Sai_··on Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating
Big O = Patrick Bateman
Sai_··on Cashless Sucks
The geofence notice even says it was even built in Delhi among other locations.

C’mon Kyle, shows us what’s behind the choli, dude!

Sai_··on Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History
Was it the other way around that you read “free market fundamentalism” or something similar and co-opted it into your daily usage, and now you’re seeing it everywhere?

There’s even a name for this bias - Baader Meinhoff effect

Sai_··on Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor
Agree. Reads like a warning more than praise - do not cross Altman because he will rip your face off.
Sai_··on OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster
What if in a different chat session, the answer GPT gives is the exact opposite ie, it says the offered solution is bogus. Would you even know of it unless someone tries it and shows it to be so? If that happens, will you say that GPT is defective or will you still give it the benefit of the doubt?

Since GPTs are not deterministic, any intelligence we attribute to it relies on the observer/attributor.

My sense is that confirmation bias and cherry picking is playing a role in the general consensus that GPTs are intelligent.

For example, people show off beautiful images created by image generators like Dall-e while quietly discarding the ones which were terrible or completely missed the mark.

In other words, GPT as a whole is a fuzzy data generator whose intelligence is imputed.

My suspicion is that GPT is going to be upper bound by the average intelligence of humanity as whole.

Sai_··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
His instinct was to walk away from his offer. He had to be forced to buy the company.

His second wife apparently asked him to buy Twitter and fix its, in her opinion, liberal bias.

Sai_··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
yeah, the guy has a knack for being in/invited to places.
Sai_··on Former GitHub CEO Friedman and Scale AI CEO Wang Declined OpenAI CEO Role
Don’t think the former CEO of GitHub is going to be that alarmed about upsetting Sam Altman. You may be seeing their decision making through the lens of a no-name founder applying to YC for their first cheque.
Sai_··on OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired
Seems very feudal, serfdom mindset to accept that your employer doesn't owe you an explanation.

An employment is a contract which both parties enter into willingly. Termination of contract deserves some level of empathetic glad handling, however minimal. It's just game theory - if you plan to hire again, you have to be gracious while firing someone because word gets around.

Sai_··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
My suspicion is that given Sam and Greg’s engineering and deal making chops, they will only ideate in how to use AI models invented elsewhere like right now.

Don’t think Sam or Greg have it in them to build a competing AI model suite, that too inside a bureaucracy like Microsoft.

I think this is exactly what OpenAI wanted - get the business types out and focus on building brilliant models which asymptotically approach AGI whose safety and ethicality they can guarantee.

Sai_··on Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team
Do companies need an info sec team?
Sai_··on Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
Sorry, no idea if what you’re looking for exists. For now, I was looking at integrating with OpenAI and productising some th ing but this situation is making me nervous.
Sai_··on Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
Yeah, the assistants api is pretty great. Curious if you’ve faced issues with certain things not working out of the blue forcing you to re-run threads?

For example, i have an assistant which is supposed to parse an uploaded file and extract useful info from it. To use this assistant, I create a thread and a run and attach it to the assistant with a different file-id. About half the time, the assistant simply throws up its hands and says it can’t parse the file I supplied with the thread. Retrying a few times seems to do the trick.

Sai_··on Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
Isn’t that the exact point - an AGI won’t need a human at the helm.
Sai_··on Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing?
The board questioned his “candid”-ness. This was not a difference of opinion on strategy.
Sai_··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Here's my theory of what happened -

1. Sam gets the company to agree to pick up the costs of lawsuits relating to unauthorized not-fair-use use of copyrighted content. 2. Announces this. 3. Then tells the board that he is directly on the hook on some lawsuits - essentially creating a safety net/insurance policy for himself without being candid with the board.

Hence, fired.

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