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ratedgene··on OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%
That's slowly changing. I know some relatively non-tech savvy young people using things like Claude for various reasons, so people are exploring options.
ratedgene··on Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI
It's a bit of both, in any technological shift, a particular set of skills simply becomes less relevant. Other skills are needed to be developed as the role shifts.

If we're talking about simply cutting costs, sure -- but those savings will typically be reinvested in more talent at a growing company. Then the bottleneck is how to scale managing all of it.

ratedgene··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
It makes sense why Trump's family is investing opportunity into crypto like "American Bitcoin" -- they want to separate themselves from the dollar.
ratedgene··on US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted
This is interesting. So is anything generated by AI not copyrightable?
ratedgene··on Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
Ok got it, thanks. Is it a direct mapping?
ratedgene··on ElevenReader
Honestly, why isn't this same service baked into my OS? the reader there is really atrocious, but I imagine even for a single voice a pretty small model can be downloaded and made available as a plugin for the reader app.
ratedgene··on Why Do AI Chatbots Have Such a Hard Time Admitting 'I Don't Know'?
Because they don't inherently know anything to begin with.
ratedgene··on Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
Is this something we can run locally? if so what's the license?
ratedgene··on Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers
Whatever happened to him that he gave up such a valuable resource for the community? I don't think it can be saved at this point though.
ratedgene··on LLM based agents as Dungeon Masters
I think we just haven't built complex enough architectures to allow this. I have a few ideas boiling that would help facilitate long term context understanding and recall.
ratedgene··on Agentarium: Creating social simulations with AI Agents
love norbert weiner, fantastic. the great cyberneticians of their times were such far future forward visionaries it's a bit astounding.
ratedgene··on Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading ($5/trade)
It would be neat to see the process, where they get the data from, how they analyze it.

It would be neat to also see another experiment of a MAS doing this and coordinating to gamble together. Perhaps even different system/arch/expert configs.

ratedgene··on Agentarium: Creating social simulations with AI Agents
can you point me to some materials that are easy to digest?
ratedgene··on Russia and China rigged Romanian Elections using 10M fake TikTok accounts
TikTok is rife with russian sock puppet accounts run by trolls that try and persuade people. Look at any of the political posts and then check out the accounts posting pro-red and anti-blue sentiments. There is a clear pattern to their accounts.
ratedgene··on A Revolution in How Robots Learn
Maybe I'm just complicating unsupervised reinforcement learning, and adding central authorities for domain specific models.
ratedgene··on A Revolution in How Robots Learn
Hey, I wonder if we can use LLMs to learn learning patterns, I guess the bottleneck would be the curse of dimensionality when it comes to real world problems, but I think maybe (correct me if I'm wrong) geographic/domain specific attention networks could be used.

Maybe it's like:

1. Intention, context 2. Attention scanning for components 3. Attention network discovery 4. Rescan for missing components 5. If no relevant context exists or found 6. Learned parameters are initially greedy 7. Storage of parameters gets reduced over time by other contributors

I guess this relies on there being the tough parts: induction, deduction, abductive reasoning.

Can we fake reasoning to test hypothesis that alter the weights of whatever model we use for reasoning?

ratedgene··on Autopoietic Networks
Awesome rec. I'll check it out :)
ratedgene··on Autopoietic Networks
Love the word "Autopoietic", nobody really knows about it and any text that uses it for sure will capture my interest.

I've first thought of this within the concept of self-assembling autonomous agents in 2016. Good times dreaming about a future where AI permeates every facet our lives.

ratedgene··on A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT
So maybe if there isn't a perceived value in the way we learn, then how learning is taught should maybe change to keep itself relevant as it's not about what we learn, but how we learn to learn.
ratedgene··on A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT
yeah search in general, bulletin boards, shared knowledge bases, etc.
ratedgene··on A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT
geolocation, search, path/route finding.

I don't really care to memorize (which was most of the coursework) things which I can just easily look up. Maybe geography in the south was different than how it was taught elsewhere though.

ratedgene··on A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT
I was talking to a teacher today that works with me at length about the impact of AI LLM models are having now when considering student's attitude towards learning.

When I was young, I refused to learn geography because we had map applications. I could just look it up. I did the same for anything I could, offload the cognitive overhead to something better -- I think this is something we all do consciously or not.

That attitude seems to be the case for students now, "Why do I need to do this when an LLM can just do it better?"

This led us to the conclusion:

1. How do you construct challenges that AI can't solve? 2. What skills will humans need next?

We talked about "critical thinking", "creative problem solving", and "comprehension of complex systems" as the next step, but even when discussing this, how long will it be until more models or workflows catch up?

I think this should lead to a fundamental shift in how we work WITH AI in every facet of education. How can a human be a facilitator and shepherd of the workflows in such a way that can complement the model and grow the human?

I also think there should be more education around basic models and how they work as an introductory course to students of all ages, specifically around the trustworthiness of output from these models.

We'll need to rethink education and what we really desire from humans to figure out how this makes sense in the face of traditional rituals of education.

ratedgene··on AI Hype Is Cooling – New survey
To be honest, AI is very much still in its discovery/explore phase.
ratedgene··on All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs
You can pretty much bypass this with residential proxies.
ratedgene··on All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs
I've done the same for use in foreign currency exchanges. The adventure of reverse engineering protocols and finding security checks, etc was more fun than the actual accomplishment lol.
ratedgene··on New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike
I upvoted you for the sentiment alone.
ratedgene··on Show HN: SplatGallery – A Community-Driven Gallery for Gaussian Splats
I love the gaussian splatting that's going on. I also love the people pushing gaussian splitting and generative AI. I really feel there is something there but I'm not quite sure what yet. It's cool seeing this unfold, but I'm also worried it can turn into something like Photosynth, where it was a cool exercise but not much came out of it. I would love someone's input who is involved in this tech that could blue sky where it could be applied in interesting ways.
ratedgene··on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)
I would also say it's geospecific. Like if there is a nationwide trauma of sorts (politics, etc) it could influence a group to not be representative of the population at large.
ratedgene··on 300 people applied to rent $700/month sleeping pods in downtown San Francisco
Do you have a patent on that idea?
ratedgene··on 300 people applied to rent $700/month sleeping pods in downtown San Francisco
That's exactly what it is I think.
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