Readit NewsJieJie commented on AI isn't unleashing imaginations, it's outsourcing them theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/rntn
But nonprofit AI threatens both for-profit and nonprofit art.
Sign me up for non-profit AI.
I'm a strong advocate for a united effort to create a training set of the collected works of mankind free to any AI company to use if, for instance, it uses its profits to fund UBI, or some other program to pay us for what they use.
Anything but AGI profits being used to keep score in the Oligarchy Olympics. I agree that is a bridge too far.
JieJie commented on AI isn't unleashing imaginations, it's outsourcing them theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/rntn
It's an opinion piece posted in the Technology section. Opinion pieces can be part of sections other than the dedicated op/ed section of a newspaper.
Everything about this piece marks it as opinion (most notable the language used), if that's what you're getting at.
Also, noted below the piece:
> This is an edited version of the Australian Society of Authors 2024 Colin Simpson Memorial Keynote lecture, titled ‘Creative Futures: Imagining a place for creativity in a world of artificial intelligence’
I hear what you're saying, but The Guardian does have an opinion section this could have been printed in, but they chose to print it in Tech. The UX in Firefox for me, I could barely tell it was even in the Tech section, because the font is small and only bolded, where the rest of the menu options are in normal style. The News heading, however, is quite large, and has a strong red underline.
I think I was fair to call this out, and the article has been flagged by others.
JieJie commented on AI isn't unleashing imaginations, it's outsourcing them theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/rntn
This is an opinion piece published to the News section of The Guardian. Interesting.
I don't see any how for-profit AI is a threat to anything but for-profit art.
However, I do know that printing opinion pieces as news is definitely a threat to journalism.
My friend uses Oko on iOS to tell her when the walk light is on, and when the numbers are counting down. There is also a navigation aid that she doesn't quite feel comfortable using yet, but I will say the Oko app being able to tell her (quite precisely) what is going on with the stoplight has been a big confidence booster for her getting out into the busy world.
The leader in the field is BeMyEyes, of course. They've been working with Microsoft to integrate GPT-4o vision models into their app, with some great success. What we haven't seen yet is the move to live-video image recognition that could come from something like an OrCam or Meta glasses (they recently announced a partnership with Meta). I'm guessing there are serious safety issues with the model missing important information and leading someone vulnerable astray.
https://www.bemyeyes.comhttps://www.bemyeyes.com/blog/be-my-eyes-meta-accessibility-...
OrCam has a new product (woe upon those of us who have the paltry OrCam MyEye2) that the Meta glasses will be competing against at an eye-watering > $4K price point, that seems to do less.
https://www.orcam.com/en-us/orcam-myeye-3-pro
As with the hearing aid industry which recently went over-the-counter causing prices to plummet, the vision aid product category is in temporary disarray as inexpensive new technologies makes their way into a premium-price market.
JieJie commented on Dissociating language and thought in large language models arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627... · Posted by u/rntn
The human brain, the authors argue, in fact uses multiple networks when interpreting and producing language. These include:
- the language network, which delivers formal linguistic competence - the multiple demand network, which provides reasoning ability - the default network, which tracks narratives above the clause level - the theory of mind network, which infers the mental state of another entity
This leads to their argument that a modular structure would lead to enhanced ability for an LLM to be both formally and functionally competent. (While LLMs currently exhibit human-level formal linguistic competence, their functional competence--the ability to navigate the real world through language--has room for improvement.)
Transformer models, they note, have degree of emergent modularity through "allowing different attention heads to attend to different input features."
I was wondering, is it possible to characterize the degree of emergent modularity in current systems?
I’m not sure if this is exactly what you are referring to, but Anthropic has done a lot of interpretability work on Claude, which they’ve published along with the famous "Golden Gate Claude".^1
"We also find more abstract features—responding to things like bugs in computer code, discussions of gender bias in professions, and conversations about keeping secrets."
1: https://www.anthropic.com/research/mapping-mind-language-mod...
JieJie commented on Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out? · Posted by u/askHN2024
ACE of 9. Founded two successful alt-weekly newspapers, worked on world-famous collectible card games, lost it all due to illness that nearly killed me, recovering and slowly making my way back.
One thing a high ACE score did for me was make me an irresistible force, even as it seemed to turn the rest of the world into immovable objects.
JieJie commented on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This arxiv.org/abs/2409.05746... · Posted by u/Anon84
Isn’t hallucination just the result of speaking out loud the first possible answer to the question you’ve been asked?
A human does not do this.
First of all, most questions we have been asked before. We have made mistakes in answering them before, and we remember these, so we don’t repeat them.
Secondly, we (at least some of us) think before we speak. We have an initial reaction to the question, and before expressing it, we relate that thought to other things we know. We may do “sanity checks“ internally, often habitually without even realizing it.
Therefore, we should not expect an LLM to generate the correct answer immediately without giving it space for reflection.
In fact, if you observe your thinking, you might notice that your thought process often takes on different roles and personas. Rarely do you answer a question from just one persona. Instead, most of your answers are the result of internal discussion and compromise.
We also create additional context, such as imagining the consequences of saying the answer we have in mind. Thoughts like that are only possible once an initial “draft” answer is formed in your head.
So, to evaluate the intelligence of an LLM based on its first “gut reaction” to a prompt is probably misguided.
Let me know if you need any further revisions!
The US had a president for eight years who was re-elected on his ability to act on his “gut reaction”s.
Not saying this is ideal, just that it isn’t the showstopper you present it as. In fact, when people talk about “human values”, it might be worth reflecting on whether this a thing we’re supposed to be protecting or expunging?
"I'm not a textbook player, I'm a gut player.” —President George W. Bush.
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Even for regular users, the Share button is not always available or functional. It works sometimes, and other times it disappears. For example, since today, I have no Share button at all for chats.
My share chat link moved into the sidebar in the … menu to the right of each chat title (MacOS Safari).
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