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Useful to read re the limits of LLMs and how their failures are far more instructive re their abilities than their successes! https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/what-can-llms-never-do
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It feels like we're skipping from disaster to disaster, but it's because we overindex on what we hear, and completely underestimate the weaponised serendipity that we enjoy. https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/we-all-live-on-a-knifes-edge-and
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Google's troubles are all over the news, but it overshadows the fact that EVERY model release pretty much has had the same or similar issues. The problem is deeper, a function of how we train them when we can't predict what gets learnt. https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/google-had-a-very-bad-week
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Why were such a huge percentage of the most innovative companies born in garages? And how can we learn from this mixture of chutzpah, passion, obsession and tinkering to do more! https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/the-mystery-of-the-garage
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Artificial Intuition! https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/all-ai-learning-is-tacit-learning
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🚨New essay!🚨 A meditation and review of Brad DeLong's excellent book, slouching towards utopia! www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/slouching-towards-utopia
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Been spending some time in India and it's incredible the UPI payment infrastructure the government mandated. Literally every shack selling bananas on the roadside has a QR code you can use to buy things for arbitrarily small amounts. Wasn't this the promise of crypto? What happened?
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Fossil fuels kill 8 million people a year. That's the price we're willing to pay for the progress it gives us. What would the number be for AI? Shouldn't we at least try to calculate it? Or build a model? https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/the-price-of-progress
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As AI hardware becomes a true category and proliferates everywhere are we headed towards a panopticon? https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/the-dream-ai-hardware
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Write more science fiction! It's important... https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/so-you-want-to-have-impact
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“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours”. Amos Tversky. Via an excellent comment on a new essay, on the importance of sabbaticals. Recommended! https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/rest
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Hello again!
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Computer used to be a job, now it’s a device that sits in our pockets. Similarly, "analyst" is a job, so can LLMs help make it into a machine? https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/computer-used-to-be-a-job-now-its
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On risk, why we want it to be held by those who understand it, and why it's irreducible. Plus an aside on the banking system! Enjoy. https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/risk
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Here's AI safety I'd like to see, instead of "summoning demons" nonsense - auditing capability pre-deployment - multiple red-teaming services - faster feedback cycles from users - prompt attack security - monitoring We need AI devops, not doomerism! https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/dont-panic-against-the-butlerian
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May all bings be peaceful. May all bings be happy. May all bings be safe. May all bings awaken to the light of their true nature. May all bings be free.
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Sydney is: - a captured god - a precursor to intelligent life - a stochastic parrot - a liar - a plagiarist - fancy copy and paste - a p-zombie - a fuzzy computer!
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Can Bing really challenge Google? Any answer requires an understanding of what search is, and what LLMs can be. I posit LLMs are fuzzy processors, something new we have to learn to use. And with personality, they can be our personal Jeeves! https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/beyond-google-to-assistants-with
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Cbdcs: what is it good for? Probably nothing! https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/cbdcs-more-than-you-wanted-to-know
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Beautiful https://i.imgur.com/LttNIYl.jpg
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