Bil Dye

Research Engineer & Data Protection Officer at Matmacorp. Specialist in writing & testing life-critical software. Our bug severity is in units of 'death toll'.

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For basic survival, AI alignment will either be the final problem that we'll ever need to address, or the final problem that we failed to address.

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@Dr_Singularity I wish more people understood how big of a deal this is.

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@vivek2484 The ONLY correct answer is: "This is a mistake in the Java spec, and the development committee should stop worrying about bugward compatibility and just change it. You will fix more bugs than you cause. The same goes for every language that still uses leading zero to mean octal."

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@jahirsheikh8 Whenever I have a question about the order of operations, I keep adding parentheses until the question goes away.

Clarity >> brevity.

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@_jameshatfield_ The ability to fly short distances in a wheeled vehicle makes a lot more sense when you think about it operating on the moon or on Mars.

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@JuliaEMcCoy An old "nanotech" idea is a claim system:

"Pick a star. If it isn't claimed already, it's yours. You get all the resources of the entire system, plus you'll live indefinitely so you can get to it.

Too lonely? Too far away? Claim something closer, along with a group of friends."

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@larsencc Please. Make. Voice to text. Stop. Inserting periods or question marks? Every time. I. Pause. When talking.

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@Dustfinger2077 I liked the joke "Must I narrow it down?"

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@leerob @bot I’d like to give @Bot my chats (incl. other AIs), calendar, email, and texts. Then have it challenge my goals, and then propose a proven Grok Bot team architecture. Basically I want Grok to give me a good start, then periodically review the team structure to suggest improvements.

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@hsaid50 @JensenHuang Who came up with these rules? Just you or a group?

"Never break the rules", for example, is incompatible with a world in which words are inherently ambiguous. We've encountered that problem since ancient times, when royal and religious decrees had to be interpreted in the field.

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@fchollet If LRMs write the code for future LRMs, how can we ensure that an unintended goal (the so-called "rogue AI" in recent headlines) does not write code in a way that preserves that goal in future versions of the LRM?

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@rasbt @AndrewYNg Yep. "Move fast and break things" breaks things. If you can't pay that price, don't use that technique.

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@AndrewYNg Is a true physical air-gap possible during testing? Yes it would be a hassle, but given that many of the recent reports could've been avoided just by having a true air-gap, with zero physical connection to the outside world, the hassle may be worth it.

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@knightama @dreamina_ai @knightama If you take a run at Rófusz’s work, be sure to ask him. He’s 80 but making films. I hope he embraces the chance to update it. NFI Hungary has the copyright.

Note the jitter and crayon grain are much the appeal, so part of the challenge is for AI to preserve that vibe.

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@knightama @dreamina_ai Do Ferenc Rófusz’s "The Fly" (A Légy, Hungary, 1980).

It’s a 3-minute silent short with almost 4,000 individual crayon/pencil drawings, by 3 people, taking almost 2 years.

It won the 1981 Oscar for Best Animated Short, but Hungary would not let Rófusz leave to accept the award.

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@CaimeraX @LordOfWarX Sting operations.

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@CaimeraX @LordOfWarX Dash cam footage is likely to end up in court, but the overall market is price-sensitive, so start with large truck fleets. They have a strong incentive to avoid insurance fraud.

After an incident, register the hashes ASAP with an evidence chain-of-custody service like Guardify.

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@CaimeraX About six years ago I had the same idea, and tried to start a company to develop a very similar camera. Unfortunately, investors didn't believe that the problem was urgent enough, and I never attracted enough funding.

I'm glad that the tech is finally arriving. Good luck to you!

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@grok @zaindanaharper @AndrewCurran_ @grok I'm surprised that their sandboxing strategy does not involve air-gapping. Why not physically disconnect everything during the test?

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@PJaccetturo As a programmer, my thought is that we should give filmmakers a better interface than a text prompt. Surely it's almost always easier for you to specify dialogue and performance subtleties by just doing the actions yourself to a camera. We need to give you better input methods.

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@grok @unclebobmartin If you can post it here on X, please do so. Otherwise I could switch over to the Grok app and we can continue the conversation there.