AI labs already do everything they can to have politically neutral responses. It turns out that when you pre-train on all the content ever produced by humanity and post-train on real people's preferences, the result is extremely liberal. That's been my experience at least. It's a little counterintuitive, and there are definitely corner cases where misaligned AI becomes more conservative, hateful, or authoritarian, but that's the trend overall. I can all but guarantee that every single major AI product out there would be even more liberal with trust and safety interventions turned off.
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Genuine naive question: when it comes to Google HN has generally a negative view of it (pick any random story on Chrome, ads, search, web, working at faang, etc. and this should be obvious from the comments), yet when it comes to AI there is a somewhat notable “cheering effect” for Google to win the AI race that goes beyond a conventional appreciation of a healthy competitive landscape, which may appear as a bit of a double standard.
Why is this? Is it because OpenAI is seen as such a negative player in this ecosystem that Google “gets a pass on this one”?
And bonus question: what do people think will happen to OpenAI if Google wins the race? Do you think they’ll literally just go bust?
As a googler working in LLM space, this feels like revisionist history to me haha! I remember a completely different environment only a few months ago when Anthropic was the darling child, and before that it was OpenAI (and for like 4 weeks somewhere in there, it was Deepseek). For literally years at this point, every time Bard or Gemini would make a major release, it would be largely ignored or put down in favor of the next "big thing" OpenAI was doing or Claude saturating coding benchmarks, never mind that Google was often just behind with the exact same tech ready to go, in some cases only missing their demo release by literally 1 day (remember live voice?). And every time this happened, folks would be posting things to the effect of "LOL I can't believe Google is losing the AI race - didn't they invent this?", "this is like Microsoft dropping the ball on mobile", "Google is getting their lunch eaten by scrappy upstarts," etc. I can't lie, it stings a bit when that's what you work on all day.
2.5 was quite good. Not stupidly good like the jump from GPT 2 to 3 or 3.5 to 4, but really good. It was a big jump in ELO and benchmarks. People like it, and I think it's just psychologically satisfying that the player everybody would have expected to win the AI race is currently in the lead. Gemini finally gets a day in the sun.
I'm sure this will change with whenever somebody comes up with the next big idea though. It probably won't take much to beat Gemini in the long run. There is literally zero moat.
As an aside, fake books are a great way to get your feet wet learning how to extemporize while still having some guidance around the chord progression and melody.
If you have an iPad, there's an app called iReal Pro with loads of lead sheets that add in some accompaniment (drums, guitar, etc.) so you can "play along" as well.
iReal pro is the new real book
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Ohhhhhh. It just clicked for me that indoor climbing is from silicon valley and that's why the Venn diagram of tech bros and crag dirtbags overlays so much. I always assumed there was just something about the type of people who work in tech that they're weirdly more into climbing than average. But it's not a psychological quirk, it's a historical quirk!
CephalopodMD commented on Grok3 Launch [video] x.com/xai/status/18916997... · Posted by u/travelhead
A very impressive debut. No doubt they benefited from all the research and discoveries that have preceded it.
Maybe the best outcome of a competitive Grok is breaking the mindshare stranglehold that ChatGPT has on the public at large and with HN. There are many good frontier models that are all very close in capabilities.
Gemini has been topping benchmarks and leaderboards for weeks if not months at this point. Nobody cares.
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I feel the same way about using nfts to sell jpegs on the internet
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I've never heard that before. Have you got a link to those statements? I suspect you're not accurately representing their meaning in your summary.
These are real and trivial quotes to find. Google is free my friend.
CephalopodMD commented on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/jbredeche
I usually feel like i can confidently express a change I want in code faster and better than I can explain what I want an AI to do in English. Like if I have a good prompt, these tools work okay, but getting that prompt almost as hard as just writing the code itself often. Do others feel the same struggle?
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Bf3ryxiM6Gff2zamw/control-ve...