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mebutnotme commented on AI Is the Black Mirror nautil.us/ai-is-the-black... · Posted by u/Jun8

mebutnotme · a year ago

The argument here seems to be AI can’t become a mind as it does not experience. There is a counter argument though that the way we access our past experiences is via the neural pathways we lay down during those experiences and that with the new neural networks AIs now have we have given them those same pathways just in a different way.

At present I don’t think it is yet at the same point but when the AI can adjust those pathways, add more in compute time (infinite memory like tech) and is allowed to ‘think’ about those pathways then I can see it gaining our level or better of philosophical thought.

mebutnotme commented on Does generative AI facilitate investor trading? Evidence from ChatGPT outages papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape... · Posted by u/anonu

2Gkashmiri · 2 years ago

How would this work in the market, I am Curious to try it

mebutnotme · 2 years ago

It could be news parsing, where it can turn news article text into data points that an investment model could imply market signals from.

Something similar could happen with transcripts of company investor calls, or any other text/audio companies put out. With the right prompt you can turn text into signals, the trick would be getting that prompt right (and prompt engineering to limit hallucinations as much as possible).

mebutnotme commented on Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI · Posted by u/convexstrictly

quickthrower2 · 2 years ago

Makes me wonder whether to keep building upon OpenAI? Given that they have an API and it takes effort to build on that vs. something else. I am small fry but maybe other people are wondering the same? Can they give reassurances about their products going into the future?

mebutnotme · 2 years ago

I’d recommend trying to build out your systems to work across LLMs where you can. Create an interface layer and for now maybe use OpenAI and Vertex as a couple of options. Vertex is handy as while not always as good you may find it works well for some tasks and it can be a lot cheaper for those.

If you build out this way then when the next greatest LLM comes out you can plug that into your interface and switch the tasks it’s best at over.

mebutnotme commented on How Palantir Will Steal the NHS doctorow.medium.com/how-p... · Posted by u/kubami

swexbe · 3 years ago

A balanced budget doesn't matter?

mebutnotme · 3 years ago

When the number of users you are serving goes up and the services each user uses increases due to age, then a balanced budget is in fact a cut in per user and especially per user service terms.

mebutnotme commented on Cloudflare had a partial outage cloudflare.com/... · Posted by u/rkwasny

collyw · 4 years ago

Shouldn't have happened in the first place. Should have had something that worked on their own website to indicate the service is down, not needing to come to a somewhat obscure tech forum to find out the details.

mebutnotme · 4 years ago

Their status page does show the service down as well as them having identified the issue and working on a fix:

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

mebutnotme commented on Ask HN: Should I buy Mac book Pro now or wait for ARM? · Posted by u/esseti

mebutnotme · 6 years ago

It depends on your use, you say you develop and so you likely have a number of tools that you rely on for your day to day productivity. While the new Arm processor may well be faster then the Intel it is going to cause incompatibilities for a while.

Going the Intel route now will give you a stable machine which still has a lot of performance (depending on what exactly you develop, web great, Linux kernel not so much ;o)

Getting the first Arm will lead to you spending time dealing with first adopter bugs and learning new tooling due to your existing stack having incompatibilities.

mebutnotme commented on AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs tomshardware.com/news/amd... · Posted by u/ItsTotallyOn

cced · 6 years ago

For someone considering their next build with a usecase of:

- programming, docker, golang

- gaming

can anyone recommend a resource for determining the relative performance of processors? With all the new of how well AMD is doing, I’m still not sure how to look at a given task, and determine which processor would perform better.

Does anyone know of such a source?

mebutnotme · 6 years ago

Unless you are compiling massive projects then your best bet will likely be a 3900x. You get more cores then you can likely use to handle all the programming multitasking while also having a cpu that’s 5-10% off of the best gaming cpu available. All while keeping within a reasonable budget.

mebutnotme commented on YouTube faces creator backlash axios.com/youtube-faces-c... · Posted by u/hhs

nickjj · 7 years ago

> Copyright claims is a perfect example.

Yep.

One of my favorite subscribers to watch is some guy (Harald Baldr[0]) who travels around remote areas of the world and vlogs it.

But he's said a number of times how even 10 seconds of background music can cause his video to get demonetized and then all ad revenue for the video goes to the record label who owns the copyright and there's absolutely nothing he can do to combat it.

This happens even if his video is 30 minutes long and has nothing to do with the music at all -- it just so happens he's walking past a store or hotel lobby that has music on.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKr68ZJ4vv6VloNdnS2hjhA/vid...

mebutnotme · 7 years ago

YouTube are actually adding some tech to help with this. In future when making a claim you have to add the timestamps in the video where the copyright occurs. Then the creator will get that info as well as a few simple quick-fix options to cut out that portion of the video or replace it.

It's long overdue but they do seem to be making some strides to help creators at last.