darby_eight

> its reasoning capabilities

To be clear, LLMs are not capable of reasoning.

> deny the risk entirely, or to act as if it's ridiculous to be concerned about such things in my opinion is just an intellectually ignorant position to hold.

This would take someone actually articulating what this risk you refer to is. All I have to go off of is Terminator, which is patently ridiculous. People in power would never relinquish this power to a computer without being able to dictate whom it benefits.

> The risk of the rise of AGI

can someone explain what the risk of this actually is? I just assumed it was a regulatory capture ploy.

IMO it is massively distracting from the very real and very measurable impact the global industry has on our climate.

> Every language has morphemes for the simple reason that every word is at least one morpheme.

Sure, if you define "morpheme" as a collection of syllables that's meaningful to people using alphabetic script. I don't see any benefit to this compared to working with syllables directly, which is a meaningful concept regardless of the script used to encode them.

> you still need to disassemble the ROM up front and annotate it heavily before it can be recompiled.

Why? Surely it's more straightforward to do binary-to-binary translation. No human input needed!

> Anyway, around here, even a small investment in reducing idling (or just cutting funding for traffic quiescence projects) would be equivalent to increasing vehicle fuel economy by something like 20-80%.

sure, but I'd rather just lobby against cars at that point. Especially in a place like the Bay Area that should be mostly served by public transit and dense housing. Lobbying to micromanage idling just feels like a waste of effort for such a negligible benefit.

ok, use a flaming trash can instead. Same result.

? Is this a joke

TBH I never thought to even call the speech processing in my a head a "little voice" until someone accused me of not having an inner monologue. I don't perceive it as audio at all unless I put effort into it.

Meanwhile music plays in my head constantly, so I don't think they're related.

Only in languages that have morphemes! This is hardly a universal attribute of language so much as an attribute of those that use an alphabet to encode sounds. It makes more sense to just bypass the encoding and directly consider the speech.

Besides, considering morphemes as semantic often results in a completely different meaning than we actually intend. We aren't trying to train a chatbot to speak in prefixes and suffixes, we're trying to train a chatbot to speak in natural language, even if it is encoded to latin script before output.

> On a character level this should be trivial.

Characters are not the semantic components of words—these are syllables. Generally speaking, anyway. I've got to imagine this approach would yield higher quality results than the roman alphabet. I'm curious if this could be tested by just looking at how LLMs handle English vs Chinese.

In the sense they're used as English prefixes, paleo is many orders of magnitude older than archeo. Hence words like "paleoarchaeology", which starts around 10kya.

Sure, but I'd be absolutely flabbergasted if they didn't come from kidnapped Palestinians.

> Graphics and PDFs are much lower on the priority scale.

Unless of course you read books that have graphics or come in pdf form.

I am not watching a video

I smell Penrose bullshit in the air

Of course the brain uses quantum mechanics, it exists in the real world. What has yet to be demonstrated is any link to consciousness.

They've been the benchmark for amazon kindle books. They suck for pdfs or anything with graphics.

> Black market organ harvesting of live prisoners didn't even cross my mind when reading this headline.

It's not that crazy: https://www.westernmassnews.com/2023/05/11/getting-answers-b...

I'm somewhat surprised people still watch YouTube with the horrible recommendations and non-stop spam

Archeocomputation is better imo. "Paleo-" typically implies geological timescales rather than decades.

Performant 3d acceleration in the guest OS is still quite difficult to find an open source solution for, and linux these days relies heavily on this for window management. Mac hosts at least have ParavirtualizedGraphics, even though I don't think the popular open source clients have support for it yet.

What is Visual Studio used for these days? Of course windows development, and I'm guessing xbox development too. Anything else?

qemu works as well as it always did—which is to say slow as hell but good enough for automation in a pinch

I'm legitimately confused why anyone would log on to it if not to use it like social media

> 0.0025% of Meta's cap

Surely yearly revenue would be more interesting here—presumably pretty much any financial metric you can select in a given year will be dwarfed by market cap.

Eh this seems a lot less interesting than language and laughter

I just found the mention of the state confusing because surely this app is equally untrustworthy regardless of its origin. American companies can't be trusted either—they've long since indicated a willingness to work with law enforcement and intelligence. E2e encryption is the only meaningful answer.

> Just because it's free doesn't mean you can change anything or get the source.

Free as in speech, not beer.

> Some claim something is open source but it's just for free.

Gratis, not free.

People have been promising this for well over a decade now but the bottleneck is the same as it was before: the voice assistants can't access most functionality users want to use. We don't even have basic text editing yet. The tone of voice just doesn't matter when there's no reason to use it.

> If you put an AirTag on say your bike, and thief steals it, they will get a notification and immediately just find and disable it.

This is not a good fit for bluetooth. Bluetooth is trivially detectable whether it's tracked centrally or not.