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coeneedell commented on Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection   realitydefender.com/platf... · Posted by u/bpcrd
Eisenstein · 12 days ago
I don't want to be rude is this not a question you get asked by potential customers? Is that your answer for them? It sounds a lot like 'I guess we will find out.'
coeneedell · 12 days ago
I think you misunderstood my answer. There is established research showing that deepfake detection models transfer learning within architectures.
coeneedell commented on Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection   realitydefender.com/platf... · Posted by u/bpcrd
Eisenstein · 13 days ago
What's the lead time between new generators and a new detection model? What about novel generators that are never made public?

I think the most likely outcome of a criminal organization doing this is that they train a public architecture model from scratch on the material that they want to reproduce, and then use without telling anyone. Would your detector prevent this attack?

coeneedell · 12 days ago
There are three observations that are helpful to know about here: A: High quality, battle tested architectures are sold via an API and samples are therefore easy to retrieve at scale. B: lower quality, novel architectures are often published on GitHub and can be scaled on budget compute resources. C: Often these models perform well at classifying content generated by architectures similar to those they were trained on, even if that architecture is not identical.

As for actual lead time associated with our actual strategy, that’s probably not something I can talk about publicly. I can say I’m working on making it happen faster.

coeneedell commented on Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection   realitydefender.com/platf... · Posted by u/bpcrd
m4tthumphrey · 13 days ago
I feel like this will be the next big cat and mouse sega after ad-blockers;

1) Produce AI tool 2) Tool gets used for bad 3) Use anti-AI/AI detection to avoid/check for AI tool 4) AI tool introduces anti-anti-AI/detection tools 5) Repeat

coeneedell · 13 days ago
This is definitely a concern, but this is more or less how the cybersecurity space already works. Having dedicated researchers and a good business model helps a lot for keeping detectors like RD on the forefront of capabilities.
coeneedell commented on LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them   matthewsinclair.com/blog/... · Posted by u/matthewsinclair
cellis · 4 months ago
If you and Lebron both had mech-suits you'd be equal in strength. Actually you might find that maybe you communicate better with the machine as you've had to communicate a lot more for work and have further refined those neural patterns. So actually, I would expect those with exceptional communication skills and creativity to be the best able to take advantage of AI. In a world where functional code in any language can be spat out at 1000 tokens/s, it matters a lot more that you can communicate your vision than understanding the inscrutable byte-level architecture of ARM-64 or how to write a CUDA kernal, or how to use a static class properly.
coeneedell · 4 months ago
LeBron James still knows more about how to play basketball than whoever is in the mech suit opposite him.
coeneedell commented on Bispecific antibodies potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern   science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/ohjeez
timr · 6 months ago
Our political discourse is especially stupid right now, and it is bi-partisan.
coeneedell · 6 months ago
Really difficult to argue that “both sides are equally to blame for the bad discourse” when one side had a mob of terrorists storm the capitol (then pardoned all of them) and the other side held up tiny signs during a speech.
coeneedell commented on Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked   ourworldindata.org/data-i... · Posted by u/myroon5
tonyhart7 · 6 months ago
"Having no car at all should be viable and we should build toward that."

Yeah its sounds great until you need mass transport system to support this idea which means only mega cities can benefit the most when tier 2 and tier 3 cities is having a hard time investment

see: japan

coeneedell · 6 months ago
This is a chicken-egg problem. Those cities became tier 1 cities over time because of their proactive public transit strategies.
coeneedell commented on Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=1yvBq... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
zxexz · 9 months ago
I can't help but feel that this talk was a lot of...fluff?

The synopsis, as far as my tired brain can remember:

- Here's a brief summary of the last 10 years

- We're reaching the limit of our scaling laws, because we've trained on all the data we have available on the limit

- Some things that may be next are "agents", "synthetic data", and improving compute

- Some "ANNs are like biological NNs" rehash that would feel questionable if there was a thesis (which there wasn't? something about how body mass vs. brain mass are positively correlated?)

- 3 questions, the first was something about "hallucinations" and whether a model be able to understand if it is hallucinating? Then something that involved cryptocurrencies, and then a _slightly_ interesting question about multi-hop reasoning

coeneedell · 9 months ago
I attended this talk in person and some context is needed. He was invited for the “test of time” talk series. This explains the historical part of the talk. I think his general persona and association with ai led to the fluffy speculation at the end.

I notice with Ilya he wants to talk about these out there speculative topics but defends himself with statements like “I’m not saying when or how just that it will happen” which makes his arguments impossible to address. Stuff like this openly invites the crazies to to interact with him, as seen with the cryptocurrency question at the end.

Right before this was a talk reviewing the impact of GANs that stayed on topic for the conference session throughout.

coeneedell commented on CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU   github.com/cupy/cupy... · Posted by u/tanelpoder
SubiculumCode · a year ago
this is not what I wanted to hear. NOT AT ALL. Please whisper sweet lies into my ears.
coeneedell · a year ago
At the moment I’m working on a system to quickly replicate academic deep learning repos (papers) at scale. At least Amazon has a catalogue of prebuilt containers with cuda/pytorch combos. I still occasionally have an issue where the container works on my 3090 test bench but not on the T4 cloud node…
coeneedell commented on CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU   github.com/cupy/cupy... · Posted by u/tanelpoder
SubiculumCode · a year ago
As an aside, since I was trying to install CuPy the other day and was having issues.

Open projects on github often (at least superficially) require specific versions of Cuda Toolkit (and all the specialty nvidia packages e.g. cudann), Tensorflow, etc, and changing the default versions of these for each little project, or step in a processing chain, is ridiculous.

pyenv et al have really made local, project specific versions of python packages much easier to manage. But I haven't seen a similar type solution for cuda toolkit and associated packages, and the solutions I've encountered seem terribly hacky..but I'm sure though that this is a common issue, so what do people do?

coeneedell · a year ago
Ugh… docker containers. I also wish there was a simpler way but I don’t think there is.
coeneedell commented on AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too dangerous to release   livescience.com/technolog... · Posted by u/insamniac
coeneedell · a year ago
These samples are terrible when compared to commercially released models like from eleven labs or playht. This is an extension of an interesting architecture but currently those more traditionally based models are way more convincing.

u/coeneedell

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