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gabipurcaru commented on AGI is not multimodal   thegradient.pub/agi-is-no... · Posted by u/danielmorozoff
bufferoverflow · 7 months ago
AGI must be multimodal. If it can't understand images, video, sound, smells, tastes, it doesn't have a full understanding of the world.
gabipurcaru · 7 months ago
multimodality would be very useful, but on the other hand humans can't see infrared, and can't smell ~most things that other animals can
gabipurcaru commented on Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta   ec.europa.eu/commission/p... · Posted by u/impish9208
DuckyC · 2 years ago
"past several quaters". The DMA entered force November 1. 2022.
gabipurcaru · 2 years ago
There are multiple parts to it --

"The 2 May 2023, 6 months later, the regulation started applying and the potential gatekeepers had 2 months to report to the commission to be identified as gatekeepers. This process would take up to 45 days and after being identified as gatekeepers, they would have 6 months to come into compliance, at the latest the 6 March 2024.[8][32] From 7 March 2024, gatekeepers must comply with the DMA. [33]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act

gabipurcaru commented on Bad bots account for most internet traffic? Analysis   securityweek.com/bad-bots... · Posted by u/LinuxBender
andai · 2 years ago
Would this be solved by just providing APIs? Scraping is a pain and people only do it when there's no API. (Though these days a lot of businesses offer unofficial 3rd party APIs by scraping.)

It's also stupid and massively wastes computation and traffic on both ends.

Then people would think "but then I'd have to pay money to offer a free API", but they're already doing that in a more expensive way via the web interface anyway.

gabipurcaru · 2 years ago
> people only do it when there's no API

Legitimate scrapers, maybe. Everyone else does it to circumvent the API limitations, by posing as real traffic. APIs imply API keys which can be traced and banned.

gabipurcaru commented on Exclusive access for LLM companies to largest Chinese nonfiction book collection   annas-blog.org/duxiu-excl... · Posted by u/sillysaurusx
bberrry · 2 years ago
Do LLMs really encode knowledge regardless of language, and tap that knowledge irrespective of which language you query in?

My mental model of LLMs being next-word predictors with a long context window suggests they don't. Are there any papers on this?

gabipurcaru · 2 years ago
this is fairly easy to test for yourself. What did you try?
gabipurcaru commented on Build your own BitTorrent   app.codecrafters.io/cours... · Posted by u/romac
gabipurcaru · 2 years ago
This is super fun! I did the same back in uni, it was an awesome project: https://github.com/bbpcr/Yomato
gabipurcaru commented on Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not   rachelbythebay.com/w/2023... · Posted by u/l0b0
WirelessGigabit · 2 years ago
https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js/wiki/How-to-revers...

Prepending the message with the length means the message is length-limited. Seems standard practice here.

gabipurcaru · 2 years ago
yep, I think it's quite standard. The BitTorrent protocol also uses it extensively : https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification#Bencoding
gabipurcaru commented on Engineering Intensity   ruiper.es/posts/engineeri... · Posted by u/RPeres
gabipurcaru · 2 years ago
this also implies that you can train for more sustained intensity, which I think is absolutely true. You can become a brilliant engineer by finding the right balance of intensity and R&R, assuming this is what you want
gabipurcaru commented on Scientists claim >99 percent identification rate of ChatGPT content   theregister.com/2023/06/0... · Posted by u/Sindisil
sidewndr46 · 3 years ago
This title is useless. I can identify >99% of all AI generated content with a function that is just "return true;".
gabipurcaru · 3 years ago
As usual, journalists trying to explain what scientists do and misrepresenting the facts.

The paper mentions accuracy i.e. (true positives + true negatives) / total examples. And it's actually 100% accurate i.e. there are no false positives _or_ false negatives.

But the big caveats are:

1. this was tested only on 180 examples, which is a very very small dataset to draw conclusions on, and

2. this is obviously an adversarial space so any classifier will be obsolete with the next training run

I'm bearish on any attempt to distinguish real content vs. AI generated content (on any medium, text, image or anything else). This is an adversarial game and the AIs can incorporate your fancy algorithm to fool you better. In the end these projects only end up improving the AI models in terms of realism.

gabipurcaru commented on Nvidia is now a $1T company   theverge.com/2023/5/30/23... · Posted by u/miletus
retskrad · 3 years ago
Speaking of trillion dollar companies, how is Apple the most valuable one? Their devices are dumb as bricks. Apple is do bad at AI that they can't even get autocorrect right on the iPhone. They are completely out of their element in the age of LLM's. Microsoft's business was bulletproof before investing in OpenAI but now it should be more valuable than Apple.
gabipurcaru · 3 years ago
people buy their stuff.
gabipurcaru commented on Microsoft is slowly rolling out ads in the Windows 11 start menu   gizmodo.com/microsoft-win... · Posted by u/ourmandave
qbasic_forever · 3 years ago
I would love to hear Steve Jobs' thoughts on this if he were still alive. He famously was quoted as saying Microsoft has "no taste", and I can't help but think this commercialization of the core OS interface is the epitome of tasteless and cheap.

It's hard to imagine a company like Microsoft with so many billions in the bank is so hard up for cash that they're effectively putting billboards up for sale on their primary product. I'm sure Jobs would have had some colorful things to say, if not outright gloating at the vindication.

gabipurcaru · 3 years ago
well, to be fair, the app store has ads in search. When you search for app X, you're likely to see its competitor Y as the first result. (Though this is obviously not Jobs' doing.)

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