Readit Newsamohn9 commented on OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August theverge.com/notepad-micr... · Posted by u/ghoulishly
> Altman decided to let GPT-5 take a stab at a question he didn’t understand. “I put it in the model, this is GPT-5, and it answered it perfectly,” Altman said.
If he didn't understand the question how could he know the model answered it perfectly?
This statement is definitely just marketing hype, but if we're being pedantic there are tons of questions that are hard to answer but have easy to verify solutions, e.g. all NP-complete problems.
I work in a mail room sending hard copy letters to customers. If I got my job right only 70% of the time then I’d be causing massive privacy breaches daily by sending the wrong personal information to the wrong customers.
Would you trust an AI that gets your banking transactions right only 70% of the time?
No. I also wouldn’t use a hammer to cut a board in half - I’d grab a saw. Knowing how to pick the right tool is a fundamental part of being a good engineer. Sometimes 70% is unacceptable, sometimes it’s exceptional. LLMs are incredible technology, but also just another tool in the toolbox. Use them where they fit, not where they don’t.
I don’t need a tool that’s right maybe 70% of the time (and that’s me being optimistic). It needs to be right all the time or at least tell you when it doesn’t know for sure, instead of just making up something. Comparing it to going out in the streets and asking random people random questions is not a good comparison.
It might not fit your work, but there are tons of areas where “good enough” can still provide a lot of value. I’m sure you’d be thrilled with a tool that could correctly tell you if Apple’s stock was going up or down tomorrow 70% of the time.
amohn9 commented on Waymos crash less than human drivers understandingai.org/p/hum... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Tbf, like with many things in that country, I think it's fair to say Australians take this way too far. You're a grown adult who can drink alcohol, go fight for your country, get married etc etc....but god forbid that you drive after dark.
While Australia does take things too far, I’m actually on their side here. Driving has been too normalized. You’re operating a 2 ton chunk of metal at 60+ mph inches away from other people. Australia has far fewer pedestrian deaths per capita than the US does, and enforcing a higher skill bar for more difficult situations must be part of that.
amohn9 commented on Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history lichess.org/@/Lichess/blo... · Posted by u/alexmolas
Yes and no – the number of playable lines does not necessarily tell us how "obvious" those lines are to find for a human.
To give a trivial example, if I take your queen, then recapturing my queen is almost always the single playable move. But it's also a line that you will easily find!
Conversely, in a complex tactical position, (even) multiple saving moves could all be very tricky for a human to calculate.
I wonder if there’s a combined metric that could be calculated. Depth of the line certainly would be impactful. A line that only works if you do 5 only moves is harder to find than a single move line. “Quiet” moves are probably harder to find than captures or direct attacks. Backwards moves are famously tricky to spot. Etc
I've never seen these called straight "alternative meat". I've read/heard "alternatives to meat", or "plant-based meat", or "meat substitutes", but "alternative meat" seems like an odd label for these.
I’ve never seen this called “alternative meat”, only “lab-grown meat.”
amohn9 commented on Enhancing Factorio with SAT solvers github.com/R-O-C-K-E-T/Fa... · Posted by u/polivier
I definitely knew people in the Wayfair logistics org that used the same kind of algos that we used at work with their Factorio games...
Maybe instead of using our OR tools for Factorio, we should run our supply chain simulations in Factorio...
(Hi probable coworker)
I was having a conversation with a former bandmate. He was talking about a bunch of songs he is working on. He can play guitar, a bit of bass and can sing. That leaves drums. He wants a model where he can upload a demo and it either returns a stem for a drum track or just combines his demo with some drums.
Right now these models are more like slot machines than tools. If you have the money and the time/patience, perhaps you can do something with it. But I am looking forward to when we start getting collaborative, interactive and iterative models.