Kevin Atkinson

software engineer, pixels 'n' code. tech bro luddite.

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@kevinnbass Science used to be done by a small number of superintelligent obsessives, but now is done by a large number of moderately intelligent careerists.

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@littIeramblings Overwhelming joy with no cause

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@cremieuxrecueil Poorer in what

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@DonnelVillager They used ML, not AI

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@JMGreerWriter I like this one, haven't found a source: Who rises from his prayers refreshed, his prayers have been answered

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@LinusEkenstam None of the people using ChatGPT understand what it's doing.

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@eshear those with the best taste will always prefer a human-created artwork

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@RokoMijic Feels like a mop up operation at this point

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@bindureddy One piece of circumstantial evidence that we might be in trouble is the glibness and unseriousness of AI boosters, and their terrifyingly naive utopianism. The ones who are worried seem like the grownups (Hinton, Bengio).

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@bindureddy Most are genuinely frightened of AI x-risk.

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@ps5_expert_play @littIeramblings @sama @elonmusk As Geoffrey Hinton says, we've got to try.

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@Fifty_5o Given the current rate of progress, you just wait six weeks for the next version.

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@AlexBerish We need a word for the opposite of doomer. Maybe AI pollyannas

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@bindureddy This level of certainty is completely delusional.

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@ylecun @geoffreyhinton "Vast majority"

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@S_Conradi Very nice, going to see how you do this in numpy. I found that spawning particles according to some weighting function (e.g. a 2D image) can give nice results: https://t.co/a4APyWw9mm

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@the_yanco I certainly hope so!

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@pwang How would consensus over training materials be achieved? I wouldn't accept the pronouncements of an AI that my political adversaries had trained.