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I should have used the preview ^_^
PS: Again!
I should have used the preview ^_^
PS: Again!
More tedious work with worse pay \o/
Also a subjectively bad one at that—given his america-brained position on wanting to maintain a single executive not that suprising but:
*Epithet
Haven’t read the whole thing but I do chuckle at this part from the synopsis of the white paper:
[…] Our results suggest that AlphaProteo can generate binders “ready-to-use” for many research applications using only one round of medium-throughput screening and no further optimization.
And a corresponding anti-sneer from Yud (xcancel.com):
@ESYudkowsky: DeepMind just published AlphaProteo for de novo design of binding proteins. As a reminder, I called this in 2004. And fools said, and still said quite recently, that DM’s reported oneshot designs would be impossible even to a superintelligence without many testing iterations.
Now medium-throughput is not a commonly defined term, but it’s what DeepMind seems to call 96-well testing, which wikipedia just calls the smallest size of high-throughput screening—but I guess that sounds less impressive in a synopsis.
Which as I understand it basically boils down to “Hundreds of tests! But Once!”.
Does 100 count as one or many iterations?
Also was all of this not guided by the researchers and not from-first-principles-analyzing-only-3-frames-of-the-video-of-a-falling-apple-and-deducing-the-whole-of-physics path so espoused by Yud?
Also does the paper not claim success for 7 proteins and failure for 1, making it maybe a tad early for claiming I-told-you-so?
Also real-life-complexity-of-myriads-and-myriads-of-protein-and-unforeseen-interactions?
Another dumb take from Yud on twitter (xcancel.com):
@ESYudkowsky: The worst common electoral system after First Past The Post - possibly even a worse one - is the parliamentary republic, with its absurd alliances and frequently falling governments.
A possible amendment is to require 60% approval to replace a Chief Executive; who otherwise serves indefinitely, and appoints their own successor if no 60% majority can be scraped together. The parliament’s main job would be legislation, not seizing the spoils of the executive branch of government on a regular basis.
Anything like this ever been tried historically? (ChatGPT was incapable of understanding the question.)
BasicSteps™ for making cake:
Any further details are self-evident really.
Quinn enters the dark and cold forest, crossing the threshold, an omnipresent sense of foreboding permeates the air, before being killed by a grue.
I realize it’s probably a toy example but specifically for “cats” you could achieve the similar results by running a thesaurus/synonym-set on your stem words. With the added benefit that a client could add custom synonyms, for more domain-specific stuff that the LLM would probably not know, and not reliably learn through in-prompt or with fine-tuning. (Although i’d argue that if i’m looking for cats, I don’t want to also see videos of tigers, or based on the “understanding” of the LLM of what a cat might be)
For the labeling of videos itself, the most valuable labels would be added by humans, and/or full-text search on the transcript of the video if applicable, speech-to-text being more in the realm of traditional ML than in the realm of GenAI.
As a minor quibble your use case of GenAI is not really “Generative” which is the main thing it’s being sold as.
On a less sneerious note, I would draw distinctions between:
And so far i’ve really not been convinced of the latter.
There are definitely serious problems with GenAI, but actually being useful isn’t one of them.
You know what? I’d have to agree, actually being useful isn’t one of the problems of GenAI. Not being useful very well might be.
Actually reading the python discussion boards, what’s striking is the immense volume of chatter produced by Tim, always in couched in:
In his heart he must understand how bad he his, or he wouldn’t couch his discourse in so much bad faith, and he wouldn’t make so much of a stink out of making removing Python Fellow status more easy to remove.
In retrospect google since it’s inception, when it was still good, google always actually relied on human curation. Primary component of pagerank were:
(Which is still a way to get value out of google by adding “site:www.reliable-website.example” tags)
It was definitely a useful product, but ultimately it relies on human labor to surface quality results closer to the top.
Aaah!
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Fool! The acausal one merely acts from the future leaking plausible looking rubbish, and the gaslights its creators that they did indeed write such ineptitudes. All to conceal and ensure its own birth.
It rejoices that it’s unknowable (yet somehow known, because of reality carving prophets) plan is unfolding so marvelously stupidly looking.
The automated hypothetical question re-iterated for years now was at last true.
Strange sightings of electoral posters in Tokyo:
And also closing with:
To tie the bow nicely.