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yogthos , 1 year ago to worldnews in Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week

That’s precisely the sort of argument one would expect from a NAFO bot. Hope you earned enough FICO credit points to buy food tonight.

yogthos , 1 year ago to worldnews in Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week

I can’t believe people are still trying to peddle this conspiracy theory in year 2023.

yogthos , 1 year ago to worldnews in Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week

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yogthos OP , 1 year ago to technology in ChatGPT gets code questions wrong 52% of the time

Oh that’s possible, not sure which one they used either.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to technology in ChatGPT gets code questions wrong 52% of the time

I don’t see the approaches as mutually exclusive. Statistical correlation can get you pretty far, but we’re already seeing a lot of limitations with this approach when it comes to verifying correctness or having the algorithm explain how it came to a particular conclusion. In my view, this makes purely statistical approach inadequate for any situation where there is a specific result desired. For example, an autonomous vehicle has to drive on a road and correctly decide whether there are obstacles around it or not. Failing to do that correctly results in disastrous results and makes purely statistical approaches inherently unsafe.

I think things like GPT could be building blocks for systems that are trained to have semantic understanding. I think what it comes down to is simply training a statistical model against a physical environment until it adjusts its internal topology to create an internal model of the environment through experience. I don’t expect that semantic conceptualization will simply appear out of feeding a bunch of random data into a GPT style system though.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to technology in ChatGPT gets code questions wrong 52% of the time

Right, I expect stuff like stable diffusion will become a part of the toolkit actual artists use. The workflows with this stuff are already getting pretty intricate where people use control net for posing, and inpainting of specific details, and so on. I would liken it to doing photography. You can’t just give a camera to anybody and get good results, it takes a person with a skill and taste to produce an interesting image.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to technology in ChatGPT gets code questions wrong 52% of the time

The fundamental problem is that at the end of the day it’s just a glorified Markov chain. LLM doesn’t have any actual understanding of what it produces in a human sense, it just knows that particular sets of tokens tend to go together in the data it’s been trained on. GPT mechanic could very well be a useful building block for making learning systems, but a lot more work will need to be done before they can actually be said to understand anything in a meaningful way.

I suspect that to make a real AI we have to embody it in either a robot or a virtual avatar where it would learn to interact with its environment the way a child does. The AI has to build an internal representation of the physical world and its rules. Then we can teach it language using this common context where it would associate words with its understanding of the world. This kind of a shared context is essential for having AI understand things the way we do.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to technology in ChatGPT gets code questions wrong 52% of the time

Yeah, generating some ideas to get you going might be the best use for this kind of stuff.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in Out of Africa, a New World War?

about the quality of reporting we’ve come to expect from western press

yogthos OP , 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to worldnews in Demand slump drags global manufacturing to financial crisis levels

Recent data point to a swiftly fading rebound in China from the reopening at end-2022, but GDP growth should still remain above the 2023 government target of 5% as consumption normalises and policy support buttresses infrastructure investment, says Fitch Ratings. We expect growth to hold up relatively well, albeit on a slowing trajectory, at 4.8% in 2024 and 4.7% in 2025..

Meanwhile, US economy has been buttressed by cannibalizing Europe where things are rapidly deteriorating.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in Demand slump drags global manufacturing to financial crisis levels

The contradictions are sharpening.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in Demand slump drags global manufacturing to financial crisis levels

China hasn’t been at war since the 70s while US has been at at war for 92% of its deplorable existence. Anybody who supports US over China is utterly morally bankrupt.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in No quick fix to reverse ‘astonishing’ Antarctic sea ice loss: Scientists

Absolutely, it’s becoming increasingly clear that a system based on constant growth and consumerism is not compatible with sustaining the biosphere we all depend on in order to exist. Capitalism is driving us, along with most complex life on this planet, towards extinction.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in Demand slump drags global manufacturing to financial crisis levels

If you mean the west is going into a recession and demand is shrinking then sure.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to technology in China's new high-speed train just set a new record as the world’s fastest — and it could travel faster than an airplane

Passenger trains are a lot less loud than planes taking off www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/…/dblevels.htm