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AI Apocalypse? No Problem

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academic.oup.com 1y ago

Potential Association between Covid Vaccination and Development of Alzheimer's

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europe.autonews.com 2y ago

VW's Cariad software unit to cut costs by 20%, avoid forced layoffs

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www.reuters.com 2y ago

OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger

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www.dcurbanmom.com 2y ago

Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges

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github.com 2y ago

User Considerations for Device Integrity

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watermark.silverchair.com 2y ago

Genesis of Library Genesis: Birth of Global Scholarly Shadow Library (2018)[pdf]

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blog.everydayscientist.com 2y ago

Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)

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twitter.com 3y ago

An unexpected rise in IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination

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www.forbes.com 4y ago

What Is the Meaning of Omicron?

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www.thelancet.com 4y ago

Elimination vs. mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 in the presence of effective vaccines

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www.bloomberg.com 4y ago

China Weighs Opening Tencent, ByteDance Content to Search, Sources Say

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spacenews.com 4y ago

Bezos offers billions in incentives for NASA lunar lander contract

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www.forbes.com 5y ago

Apparently, Calculus Was Invented In 1994 (2011)

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www.thelancet.com 6y ago

Shelter hospitals: a novel concept for responding to public health emergencies

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s2.q4cdn.com 6y ago

Boeing 2019Q2 Financial Performance Review [pdf]

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ssrn.com 7y ago

The Genesis of Library Genesis: The Birth of a Global Scholarly Shadow Library

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knowledgeutopia.wordpress.com 7y ago

The Burning of Library.nu (2014)

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

South Korea's fertility rate set to hit record low of 0.96

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AI is different 11 months ago

The robotaxi business model is the total opposite of scaling. At my previous employer we were solving the problem "block by block, city by city", , and I can only assume that you are living in the right city/block where they are tackling.

I'm Bearish OpenAI 2 years ago

I, for one, don't like American canned comic books or IPs produced by faceless corporations and prefer artisanal Japanese manga.

GPT-4o 2 years ago

On the other hand, it is very difficult to distinguish between "emergent behavior" and "somehow leaked into our large training set" for LLMs.

Aside from the mandatory negotiation with the employee co-determination (works council), the layoffs "must be determined according to the principles of social selection [...] (t)his is often perceived as a major obstacle [...] it would be disastrous to have to dismiss top performers simply because they are younger than other employees or have been recently hired."

[Source] Random link from the Internet so that I don't need to translate: https://www.emplawyers-muenchen.de/wp-content/uploads/files/...

To commoditize your complements, so that you don't have to pay license fee to your suppliers.

In a way, the German OEMs have been trying to do so, but mostly via different standardization efforts (OpenSCENARIO for example) so that they can easily change suppliers.

Not that I don't agree. I would however rank Sci-Hub, Library Genesis and Anna's Archive higher than Wikipedia. And don't forget about Internet Archive and Arxiv.

This vast amount of high quality human knowledge was not available in the good old internet 20 years ago.

Actually, that's great in my opinion.

Assuming that semi-convincing misinformation spreads everywhere, people will finally have to find the original source of a certain statement, verify their "knowledge supply chain", and maybe use logic to evaluate every single statement made.

Thanks for testing it. I canceled my ChatGPT Plus a few months ago (when they changed the color from black to purple IIRC).

So I only tested that with the GPT-4 API, with the following results:

{'id': 'chatcmpl-7uVF5xGqR1oEzXITw3WZYsnB4Yzt8', 'object': 'chat.completion', 'created': 1693700819, 'model': 'gpt-4-0613', 'choices': [{'index': 0, 'message': {'role': 'assistant', 'content': '353538'}, 'finish_reason': 'stop'}], 'usage': {'prompt_tokens': 11, 'completion_tokens': 2, 'total_tokens': 13}}

This was the response that I got from the GPT-4 API yesterday:

{'id': 'chatcmpl-7uVF5xGqR1oEzXITw3WZYsnB4Yzt8', 'object': 'chat.completion', 'created': 1693700819, 'model': 'gpt-4-0613', 'choices': [{'index': 0, 'message': {'role': 'assistant', 'content': '353538'}, 'finish_reason': 'stop'}], 'usage': {'prompt_tokens': 11, 'completion_tokens': 2, 'total_tokens': 13}}

Maybe they fine-tuned the ChatGPT version better, or fed it to an calculator.

I'm not sure about its math, but GPT-4 fails miserably at simple arithmetic questions like 897*394=?

The GPT-3.5 turbo is fined-tuned for arithmetic according to ClosedAI (noted in one of the change logs), so it is sometimes slightly better, but nevertheless always fails equations like 4897*394=?

The crypto scams highlight the consequences of lacking regulation. Incorporating lessons from a century of financial turmoil could make crypto viable (implementing laws and regulations as code), though potentially less attractive to those seeking an alternative.

I'm not sure if it is meaningful to divert the topic to an analogy that is never precise. But I think we always rerun the same code (equivalent to the same procedure in the papers) in the CI or your workstation to debug. Replicating the result of the program doesn't mean that one would have to rewrite the code, as in replicating the result of a computer vision paper may only include code review and running the code from the paper.

In some fields, replication is already the prerequisite to benchmark the SoTA. So the incentives boil down to publishing them along with negative results. Or as some have suggested, make it mandatory for PHD candidates to replicate.

Though, it seems that it is possible to game the system, by creating positive/negative replication intentionally, to collude with/harm the author.

While it is a lot of work, I tend to think that one can then always publish preprints if they can't wait for the replication. I don't understand why a published paper should count as an achievement (against tenure or funding) at all before the work is replicated. The current model just creates perverse incentives to encourage lying, P-hacking, and cherry-picking. This would at least work for fields like machine learning.

This is, of course, a naive proposal without too much thought into it. But I was wondering what I would have missed here.

GPT-4 3 years ago

It already fails to answer rather simple (but long) multiplication like 975 * 538, even if you tell it do it in a step-by-step manner.