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New comment by lewhoo in "AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study"

lewhoo — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:54:12 +0000

1 person billion dollar company - the new buzz phrase when "democratize" became so yesterday is in my opinion just that.

New comment by lewhoo in "Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics"

lewhoo — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 08:48:25 +0000

"Now the only reason why I won't post this as an arxiv note, is that the humans actually beat gpt-5 to the punch :-). Namely the arxiv paper has a v2 arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10138v2 with an additional author and they closed the gap completely, showing that 1.75/L is the tight bound."

I really don't know what to make of this. The conclusion is that a model could still do this without the paper containing the exact info on how to do this ?

New comment by lewhoo in "A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data"

lewhoo — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:46:48 +0000

But I can complain about what happens to said something. If my blog photo becomes deep fake porn am I allowed to complain or not ? What we have is an entirely novel situation (with ai) worth at least a serious discussion.

New comment by lewhoo in "My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking"

lewhoo — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:50:06 +0000

> a calculator to check her math homework

Change 'check' to 'do' and we'll have a discussion.

New comment by lewhoo in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

lewhoo — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:12:23 +0000

There was a time when in the name of progress people were killed for whatever resources they possessed, others were enslaved etc. and I was under the impression that the measure of our civilization is that we actually DID care and just how much. It seems to me that you are very eager to put up altars of sacrifice without even thinking that the problems you probably have in mind are perfectly solvable without them.

New comment by lewhoo in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

lewhoo — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 21:12:30 +0000

> Sure, there will be growing pains, friction, etc. Who cares?

That's right. Who cares about pains of others and why they even should are absolutely words to live by.

New comment by lewhoo in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

lewhoo — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:44:18 +0000

One of the biggest factors in risk of death right now is poverty. Also what is being chased right now is "human level on most economically viable tasks" because the automated research for solving physics etc. even now seems far-fetched.

New comment by lewhoo in "Learning not to trust the All-In podcast"

lewhoo — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:44:31 +0000

Apparently the biggest mistake they made is to criticize Trump for Jan 6. It's ok, they apologized for that.

New comment by lewhoo in "Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better"

lewhoo — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:21:45 +0000

Well I don't know. A bit naive, a bit like sci-fi and aimed at raising money fits my description of bs quite well.

New comment by lewhoo in "Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better"

lewhoo — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:41:32 +0000

So it's bs but for money and therefore totally fine ? I think it's not ok if only a fraction comes true because some people believe in those things and act on those beliefs right now.

New comment by lewhoo in "LLMs don't do formal reasoning"

lewhoo — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:18:40 +0000

I got 185 from 4o mini https://chatgpt.com/share/670987da-6e70-800b-b5a6-f8548fda6b...

New comment by lewhoo in "LLMs don't do formal reasoning"

lewhoo — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 19:49:10 +0000

> Yet in the face of this we still see a population of naysayers who appear intent on rubbishing LLMs at any cost.

What was the cost in this case ? It's just an experiment and I think your reaction is way too emotional for some reason.

New comment by lewhoo in "Insecure Deebot robot vacuums collect photos and audio to train AI"

lewhoo — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 17:05:39 +0000

Those certainly were the catchy headlines. Here's an interesting article:

https://news.mit.edu/2024/study-reveals-why-ai-analyzed-medi...

“We found that even state-of-the-art models which are optimally performant in data similar to their training sets are not optimal — that is, they do not make the best trade-off between overall and subgroup performance — in novel settings,” Ghassemi says. “Unfortunately, this is actually how a model is likely to be deployed. Most models are trained and validated with data from one hospital, or one source, and then deployed widely.”

New comment by lewhoo in "Insecure Deebot robot vacuums collect photos and audio to train AI"

lewhoo — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 09:35:19 +0000

I actually agree with you. I was a bit sarcastic. If I understand correctly there isn't a fundamental difference when it comes to text output vs pixel data output in this context. If so then it suddenly sounds much more of a stretch (intuitively) to claim that somehow stable diffusion understands the real world (like people claim to be the case with language models).

New comment by lewhoo in "Insecure Deebot robot vacuums collect photos and audio to train AI"

lewhoo — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 08:27:28 +0000

What ? Stable diffusion doesn't have an underlying understanding that humans typically have two arms, two hands and five fingers per hand gathered from vast sea of training data ? That's a bold statement.

New comment by lewhoo in "OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown"

lewhoo — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 11:56:47 +0000

With 3.6B people in the workforce I'd argue there isn't a billion people in need of a computer, not to mention an ai subscription plan. I'm of course assuming most subscriptions for ai are work related.

New comment by lewhoo in "Microsoft: 'ever present' AI assistants are coming"

lewhoo — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:39:52 +0000

> I think what Suleyman is missing here is that most people aren't fine with their "TVs, laptops, in-car cameras and earbuds" recording everything continuously.

I really hope so but I'm not so sure. I suspect most people are fine with anything that isn't obviously intrusive. I sometimes get the feeling that people are more upset with cookie popups than constant invigilation.

New comment by lewhoo in "I Am Tired of AI"

lewhoo — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:15:40 +0000

And yet this is precisely what people like Altman say about their product. That's pretty tiring.

New comment by lewhoo in "OpenAI to become for-profit company"

lewhoo — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:10:58 +0000

I'm with you there. I'm just not holding my breath for the current state of law.

New comment by lewhoo in "OpenAI to become for-profit company"

lewhoo — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:09:39 +0000

> It also voids plausibility for Fair Use exemptions. I can see large copyright holders lining up with takedowns

I thought so for a moment but then again Meta, Anthropic (I just checked and they have a "for profit and public benefit" status whatever that means), Google or that Musk's thing aren't non-profits, are they ? There are lawsuits in motion for sure but with how it stands today I think ai gets off the hook.