Version467 (u/Version467)

Version467 commented on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutsk... · Posted by u/piotrgrabowski

just-the-wrk · a month ago

He does deep research on topics and invites people who recognize his efforts and want to engage with an informed audience.

Version467 · a month ago

That, plus he's quick enough to come up with good follow-up questions on the spot. It's so frustrating listening to interviews where the interviewer simply glosses over interesting/controversial statements because they either don't care, or don't know enough to identify a statement as controversial. In contrast, Dwarkesh is incredible at this. 9/10 times when I'm confused about a statement that a guest makes on his show he will immediately follow up by asking for clarification or pushing back. It's so refreshing.

Version467 commented on AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power chrbutler.com/what-ai-is-... · Posted by u/delaugust

HarHarVeryFunny · a month ago

The eye-watering salary you probably have in mind is for a manager at Meta, same company that just laid of 600 actual developers. Why just Meta, not other companies - because they are blaming poor LLama performance on the manager, it seems.

Algorithmic efficiency improvements are being made all the time, and will only serve to reduce inference cost, which is already happening. This isn't going to accelerate AI advance. It just makes ChatGPT more profitable.

Why would human level AGI help spin up chip fabs faster, when we already have actual humans who know how to spin them up, and the bottleneck is raising the billions of dollars to build them?

All of these hard take-off fantasies seem to come down to: We get human-level AGI, then magic happens, and we get hard take-off. Why isn't the magic happening when we already have real live humans on the job?

Version467 · a month ago

Not the person you're responding to, but I think the salary paid to the researchers / research-engineers at all the major labs very much counts as eye-watering.

What happened at meta is ludicrous, but labs are clearly willing to pay top-dollar for actual research talent, presumably because they feel like it's still a bottleneck.

Version467 commented on Solarpunk is happening in Africa climatedrift.substack.com... · Posted by u/JoiDegn

cycomanic · 2 months ago

It's getting boring how every. single. article. has comments how the article is AI generated. The funny thing is the article writing styles are completely different, but every one has apparently "tell-tale" signs of "AI slop". It just gets tiring.

For what it's worth I pasted the first couple of paragraphs into several AI detectors and 4/5 said it's clean, while one said mixed (partly AI generated partly human). So either all these AI generation tools are crap, or the text is not so "obviously" AI generated. Not saying either way, but it seems to at least not be so obvious.

Version467 · 2 months ago

All of those tools are garbage. There is no reliable automated way to detect ai generated text. In 2023 OpenAI had a tool for this as well and they eventually took it down because it wasn't accurate enough. The major AI labs are probably best positioned to make such a tool work. If even they can't, then some random company with access to a fraction of a data and a fraction of the compute almost certainly also cannot.

Version467 commented on Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text? twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/JnBrymn

visarga · 2 months ago

Funny, I habitually read while engaging TTS on same text. I have even made a Chrome extension for web reading, it highlights text and reads it, while keeping the current position in the viewport. I find using 2 modalities at the same time improves my concentration. TTS is sped up to 1.5x to match reading speed. Maybe it is just because I want to reduce visual strain. Since I consume a lot of text every day, it can be tiring.

Version467 · 2 months ago

I do this too. It's great. The term I've seen used to describe this is 'Immersion Reading'. It seems to be quite a popular way for neurodivergent people to get into reading.

Version467 commented on LLMs can get "brain rot" llm-brain-rot.github.io/... · Posted by u/tamnd

nazgul17 · 2 months ago

They also tried to heal the damage, to partial avail. Besides, it's science: you need to test your hypotheses empirically. Also, to draw attention to the issue among researchers, performing a study and sharing your results is possibly the best way.

Version467 · 2 months ago

Yeah I mean I get that, but surely we have research like this already. "Garbage in, garbage out" is basically the catchphrase of the entire ml field. I guess the contribution here is that "brainrot"-like text is garbage which, even though it seems obvious, does warrant scientific investigation. But then that's what the paper should focus on. Not that "LLMs can get 'brain rot'".

I guess I don't actually have an issue with this research paper existing, but I do have an issue with its clickbait-y title that gets it a bunch of attention, even though the actual research is really not that interesting.

Version467 commented on LLMs can get "brain rot" llm-brain-rot.github.io/... · Posted by u/tamnd

Version467 · 2 months ago

So they trained LLM's on a bunch of junk and then notice that it got worse? I don't understand how that's a surprising, or even interesting result?

Version467 commented on YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/jakub_g

FirmwareBurner · 4 months ago

Use the Unhook extension

Version467 · 4 months ago

Unhook is great. Makes youtube on desktop bearable. Unfortunately does not work on phones :(

Version467 commented on Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network techno-fandom.org/~hobbit... · Posted by u/pilingual

AlexandrB · 4 months ago

The why is pretty simple: they want recurring revenue. What the customer wants is secondary.

Version467 · 4 months ago

And insisting on building their own mediocre ui helps them achieve that how exactly?

Maybe I'm just super out of touch on how people use their cars, but my cars infotainment system has not made its manufacturer any additional money as far as I can tell.

Version467 commented on YouTube No Translation addons.mozilla.org/en-US/... · Posted by u/thefox

CivBase · 5 months ago

I didn't know video translations were a thing. Is this not configurable?

Version467 · 5 months ago

Surprisingly, it isn't. You can change the language in your google account and it will take that into account for what to translate and into what language, but you can't turn it off completely.

I don't know who thought this was a good user experience, because it's one of the most frustrating features I've ever had to deal with. I'm german, but almost all of the things I watch are in english. So usually I will just ignore recommendations with german titles. Except I can't do that anymore, because there's no guarantee that youtube didn't randomly decide to translate the title of an english video into german. And recently, they've added auto-translated audio, which is even worse, because now I'm opening an english video and a terrible robotic german voice is talking to me and I manually need to switch to the original source.

It's also not consistent behavior. It's not like all videos on the front page are looking like they're in german. It's just some of them and afaik there's no way to tell.

And you genuinely can't turn it off completely. Incredibly frustrating and I'm just puzzled by the thought-process that lead to this decision. This would be a pretty cool feature if it was consistently applied and freely configurable.

Version467 commented on How to live on $432 a month in America shagbark.substack.com/p/h... · Posted by u/cactusplant7374

Version467 · 7 months ago

This is one of those articles where the comments are really interesting to read through. I see a bunch of comments who don't agree with the exact math, which might be warranted, but it seems at least directionally correct to me. However there's also a bunch of people commenting that this lifestyle isn't viable for some reason or another, that mainly just boils down to a personal preference those commenters don't want to live without.

But having read through most of the objections I still find myself enticed by this. If I mentally place myself in this position I think I could quite happily live a few decades without talking to anyone for weeks or even months at a time. I'd still have my pets to give me companionship. Load my kindle up with a thousand books I want to read and just work my way through it. Pick up writing as a hobby and spend the rest of the time working at a gas station and fixing up the house and/or grow some food to offset the reduced income.

Healthcare is an issue. Doesn't seem like a viable place to grow old. Once you become too frail for physical work it's probably just time to die, which isn't great.