I've been thinking a lot about this lately.

Maybe 10% of the people I interact with are free to let their thoughts wander and generate new ideas. The rest seem to be running an NPC script. I can literally predict their full sentences before they say them with pretty decent accuracy.

Now of course I don't know what they are really thinking. They may have some kind of a safe social filter they've developed to make themselves appear normal and socially acceptable - maybe they've had some bad experiences where they've shared their real thoughts and rocked the boat too much, so they shut that part down. But it's something to think about, now that we have access to recent LLMs and can experience how well next word prediction can work.

If it uses a rational problem-division approach for responses creation, instead of social conditioning/prompt censorship, it will certainly come to conclusions we don't like.

Pure rationalism has always been a double edged sword, thus only wielded against certain problems, sparing our sacred cows.

Well unfortunately I personally took no part in the development of the AI (other than the occassional crowdsourced captcha)

I don't see any contradiction between restricting the amount of vehicles and self driving technologies. In every city with vehicle limitations, taxis are available. Waymo are basically next gen taxis. So I don't see any issue.

I feel like this is good advice, thank you

If policy increases the capacity for more cars to be on the road, it will increase the amount of cars on the road.

Mo cars, mo problems.

Nyc and other cities are actively trying to limit the amount of congestion. 14th street in Manhattan (one of widest, most travelled) has been restricted to busses and bikes for the last couple years. Plus they’re congestion fees, tolls, etc to discourage cars. And more legislation* is on the way.

*with overwhelming support by the public

Yesterday I finished the plot to a Trilogy series using GPT to help me write the backstory and world building elements. it was like a sounding board, like a writing assistant

The first thing human made after discovered atomic equation is an atomic bomb.

It seems like this guy has just discovered that the vulnerability of a demographic is inherently tied into whether something is hate speech or not? There is no such thing as hate speech against rich people, because there is no negative connotation to being rich.

I mean it could also be the people that made it biased the program.

I’ve been beating this drum for a long time. I’m Gen X, middle class, that witnessed from the earliest age dramatic technological breakthroughs after breakthroughs. The list is long and I witnessed the impact/ implications in real time. Each time, I had that feeling of the great waves upon us, and knew I had to be adaptive if anything else, and keep my eyes and ears open to all changes to come if I want to survive and hopefully thrive. At the midpoint of my life, my younger self would not have been able to conceive in imagination the possibilities and realities of now. Even though my younger self was part of the first wave of home computer users (hacking/gaming) and later, internet adoption. Then I was an informed reader of the fringes technology and culture just on the horizon at the time (Wired Magazine, starting with issue 1).

Today, I still have that same feeling of the great wave upon us, but this one feels magnitudes larger that the past waves. My feels tells me there is no comparison, there is no way to even begin to have a general sense of the vector of change upon our society with little sense of predictability of time of change. We are like Jules Vern predicting spooky theory, the best of us is lacking any accuracy in predicting s ope of change, rate of change, and emergent transformations that supersede change.

So plan accordingly as best as you are able. Everything will be disrupted, that’s obvious at this point. I’m not saying doom or gloom, but change will be painful for many I presume.

I take a stoic point of view these days. Be excited and learn and adapt, yet call your family, find good friends, and if you are lucky to have love, then be grateful. My point is, technology will change and we can race to adapt as fast as humanly possible, but don’t forget just to be human and be human to each other, and live with no regrets at the end of each day.

And go for a hike, hug a 🌳

You’re definitely right that it can’t do those things, but I don’t think it’s because of the tokenization. The wordpieces do contain individual characters, so it is possible for a model to do that with the wordpiece tokenization it uses, but the issue is that the things you’re asking for (like writing a story with pig Latin) require reasoning and LLMs are just mapping inputs to a manifold. LLM’s can’t really do much reasoning or logic and can’t do basic arithmetic. I wrote an article about the limitations of transformers if you’re interested: https://taboo.substack.com/p/geometric-intuition-for-why-chatgpt

Trades does seem the way to go if you want a stable job. The only other profession I could think of is performer. I don't see people preferring robot bands on stage rather than human ones any time soon.

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It is the whole internet that is like that. As a said, it is a reflexion of our society:

You will never find people insulting "normal weighted people" or "people without a disability". So it is not surprising that the model does not perform well in those areas.

In the US, saying something is "socialism" can even be interpreted as a criticism, so I am not surprised it flags more left-winged things than right-winged.

Yeah that seems sketchy as fuck

Yeah, but that would take decades I imagine. I'm wondering what we should do in the mean time.

It's not just the cost of training. It's the availability of quality data. Meta/Google/Facebook/Microsoft are all on the forefront of this due to the access to data.

4Chan is the only place i can think of where you wouldn't get instabanned for anti-disabled hate, but considering most models are trained on Reddit it would make sense for it to be extremely biased to the left

Well, for your last sentence, left wingers are still considerably higher up in the list than right wingers, even if leftists and rightists are somewhat close

I disagree with this theory. Microsoft has put so much money into OpenAI I struggle to see how they would need more money now.

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empathic motivation/harm avoidance = riots, celebrating the death of rightists, shaming people for their genetic "privileges", reducing people to sub-human status so it's okay to treat them like trash

the "other side" is as bad, if not worse, but acting as if the left wing are the saints that fight for fairness while right wing(the other 50%) is the devil that hates immigrants and everyone else is laughable

especially when the far-left has a far higher body count than the far-right

Oh stfu

Roads? /r/whowouldbuildtheroads Trains? Like Ohio? National Parks? Meh. Ok I’ll maybe give you that one. Maybe.