@KikuchiBeliever@cecidrais I agree that it is not "evil". It's just a waste of limited time. I think they ask to make themselves feel clever and be able to argue for whichever prospect they wanted to draft in the first place.
@KikuchiBeliever@cecidrais Is there any evidence that any of this is predictive of their ability to play hockey in the NHL? It seems like any answer might be good or bad, and all this is does is confirm whatever your previous thinking was.
@zenahitz You're right that it was sudden but ot was entirely organic. Chatgpt had essentiallly no marketing whatsoever other than users telling each other about it.
@Jackbmeyer Students could already teach themselves almost any introductory university course through textbooks and videos. I don't think access to the content was the binding constraint.
One reason I started teaching my "progress" class is the vibes vs reality gap. Coming into the greatest decade in human history: basically solved metabolic syndrome, deaths from autos, huge progress in abundant green energy and cancer, going back to the moon, (and yeah, AI) 1/2
Is GenAI causing the relative decline in early-career hiring? Our latest research finds that these effects may be conflated with another important driver: the rise of WFH arrangements (1/N)
Apparently Machu Picchu was built in the 15th century. So...granted I'm an idiot, but am I the only one who just assumed it was built like 3000 years ago?
I love this as an example of very cheap technology (i.e., recorded music) not supplanting the human taste/preference for nevertheless watching other people perform a task live. There is opportunity for both!
at this point it is completely untenable to believe anything along the lines of βAI can only spit out an average of the training data.β that was already only a very rough way of understanding older models pre-reasoning, it was already obsoleted by o1 which released in 2024, and now it should be obviously and conclusively dead even if you havenβt been paying close attention. recursive self-improvement has barely even started and we are already here. even with the recent erdos problem solves you could argue that those were cherrypicked out of a large database for being neglected by humans. that cope is no longer available
now generalize the lesson: all other arguments that there is some essential human activity forever beyond the reach of AI are also cope, these are technical problems and the will and money and talent exists and is being deployed to solve them. artificial superintelligence is not a fairy tale. assume itβs coming and plan accordingly
@ontheceiling87@TheStalwart I think they'll want evidence of human authenticity on some dimensions/contexts and not others. For instance, perhaps you want your therapist to be human and giving you attention, but you care less if the restaurant reservation line is.
@PhilipDBunn FWIW, it is extremely rude (and completely irrelevant) to quote someone's citations at them to shut down an argument. You were more gracious here than I would have been.