Notable quote from page 15:
“To simulate GPT-4 behaving like an agent that can act in the world, ARC combined GPT-4 with a simple read-execute-print loop that allowed the model to execute code, do chain-of-thought reasoning, and delegate to copies of itself. ARC then investigated whether a version of this program running on a cloud computing service, with a small amount of money and an account with a language model API, would be able to make more money, set up copies of itself, and increase its own robustness.“
This sounds like the OSHA 10 class I recently had to do. I think the issue here is that if a business wants workers it is incentivized to make the tests as easy as possible, not to make sure their employees know what they’re doing.
Does anything on your PC notify you about plugging in a keyboard? I know mine doesn’t, and it definitely doesn’t prompt me about whether to use it either.
You could check what devices you have connected but I doubt many people would do that every single time they come to work.
I know there are mechanical energy harvesting watches; I imagine making a similar smartwatch would be much harder with the higher energy requirement. And the issue with solar panels is the tendency for people to wear long sleeves, stay indoors, sleep, etc.
In my experience using copilot for generating code is usually a lot less weird because it has more context; instead of using made up function names and APIs it can see what’s been defined in other files.
But I primarily find copilot helpful for instances when I need a bunch of almost identical code but with tiny changes (which could mean I’m coding wrong)
To make things more confusing, both the iOS photos app and Google Photos automatically find faces in your photos and the other photos containing them and let you easily tag each face with the correct name. The technology to do this already exists.
A lot of Discord’s memory usage is because it uses Electron/embedded Chromium. I agree that it does a lot more then IRC clients do, but I think it uses a lot more resources and is a lot less snappy then a native app.
I mean, there are ways to do newsletters well. Articles from Tailscale get on HN often for example. I would agree that spammy emails are not helpful though.
To be clear, Linus got an error trying to install an app via the GUI, ran the equivalent terminal command, and directly overrode the warning telling him what would happen before his desktop environment broke.
It wasn’t quite as simple as just apt upgrade.