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New comment by peterth3 in "Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario"

peterth3 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:20:05 +0000

That’s definition #2 with #1 being:

> a man who presents a child at baptism and promises to take responsibility for their religious education.

So, the original definition is a gendered and religious term.

Sounds silly to me. Especially in this context.

New comment by peterth3 in "Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario"

peterth3 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 07:32:01 +0000

Sorry, who’s “they” here? The incumbents OpenAI / DeepMind / Anthropic?

New comment by peterth3 in "Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario"

peterth3 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 07:27:12 +0000

Can we stop labeling prominent AI researchers as “AI Godfather”? It’s so silly and barely truthful.

The concept of AI has been around since Turing and if anyone deserves a title like “Father of AI” it’s him.

LeCun is Chief AI Scientist at Meta. They can just leave it at that.

New comment by peterth3 in "Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario"

peterth3 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 07:18:27 +0000

Licensing can definitely turn into regulatory capture if it expands enough. It’s effectively a barrier to entry defined by the incumbent.

New comment by peterth3 in "The Decline of Usability (2020)"

peterth3 — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 05:48:04 +0000

The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman is a good place to start.

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expand...

New comment by peterth3 in "AI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidity"

peterth3 — Mon, 22 May 2023 07:25:05 +0000

Glad to hear we’re not the only ones having an emergency LangChain hackathon.

So far what we’ve been able to build feels brittle. But, LLMs are fun to play with though

New comment by peterth3 in "Bing threatens to dox a student in revenge for prompt hacking"

peterth3 — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 05:28:42 +0000

Why does Bing AI sign every message with an emoji?

ChatGPT doesn’t do it and it comes off so strange.

New comment by peterth3 in "We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it"

peterth3 — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 07:06:22 +0000

How well GPTZero can detect ChatGPT generated text by measuring perplexity (how random the words choices are) and burstiness (how diverse the sentence structure is) shows that whatever algorithm our brain uses has stronger creative capabilities than this LLM.

GPT-3.5 isn’t a great writer like AlphaGo is a great go player. Maybe one day AI will generate better scripts and novels than humans, but not this model.

Medium-quality writing is ok for informative content though, but it’s problematic when the model doesn’t know fact from fiction. That’s the important complaint.

Is it dangerous? Maybe.

But is it useful? Not if it’s wrong too often.

You’re right that this tech should be taken seriously, but so should the hallucination problems. These problems can be solved. And maybe they should be solved before anyone trusts it with serious questions.

New comment by peterth3 in "LangChain: Build AI apps with LLMs through composability"

peterth3 — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 04:55:36 +0000

What LLMs does LangChain support?

Btw I asked chat.langchain.dev and it said:

> LangChain uses pre-trained models from Hugging Face, such as BERT, GPT-2, and XLNet. For more information, please see the Getting Started Documentation[0].

That links to a 404, but I did find the correct link[1]. Oddly that doc only mentions an OpenAI API wrapper. I couldn’t find anything about the other models from huggingface.

Does LangChain have any tooling around fine tuning pre-trained LLMs like GPTNeoX[2]?

[0]https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.h...

[1]https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/g...

[2]https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox

New comment by peterth3 in "Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT"

peterth3 — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 19:23:19 +0000

> We're predisposed to seeing meaning, and perhaps "intelligence", everywhere.

I’m guilty of this with my dog. I can’t help it with her head tilts and deep stares! Her inner monologue is probably less sophisticated than I like to think it is.

Ask HN: Is there a search tool that indexes a curated subset of the web?

peterth3 — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 02:29:58 +0000

Sometimes find myself appending filters to my search queries, like “site:reddit.com”, “site:github.com”, and maybe even something like “site:x.com OR site:y.com OR z.com”. I know I’m not alone, because there was a discussion on here yesterday [0] where other devs shared that they’re doing the same thing.

From my limited view of the search engine market, I see see successful search companies exist on one side of two extremes. Either:

1. Index the entire web. This category would include companies like Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, ect.

2. Index one website at a time. This would include companies like Algolia and Elasticsearch.

But there doesn’t seem to be any companies that focus on search use cases in between 1 and 2. As a software engineer it would be nice to have a search tool that only indexes sites like stack overflow, relevant GitHub repos, our dependencies’ docs, internal docs, and maybe a couple technical subreddits. I might even use this hypothetical search tool more than Google in my daily development work.

I’ve looked around for a search tool like I’m describing, but I can’t find anything that scratches my itch.

I did find YaCy [1], but it seems more technical and cumbersome than what I want. It’s focused more on other things like p2p/decentralization. And, it looks like it’s been around for a while without much traction. But maybe my assessment is shortsighted..

Does anyone here know a search tool like I’m describing?

Or maybe this is is a Tarpit idea… If so, then why?

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33799767 [1]https://yacy.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33825975

Points: 1

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New comment by peterth3 in "Notion AI – waiting list signup"

peterth3 — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:47:04 +0000

Yes on all three points! Especially search. Notion’s search is so painfully slow. Whenever I try to link a row to another row the loader sounds for 2+ secs, even if I’m searching a table with <10 rows.

New comment by peterth3 in "Notion AI – waiting list signup"

peterth3 — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:41:26 +0000

The first use case in the demo is generating a blog post, so I’d assume that they’re trying to win the “cynical marketers wanting to use GPT-3 to churn out keyword nonsense to game Google Search” market. I know of some marketing teams that use notion for content management.

New comment by peterth3 in "LBRY Sold Tokens as Securities, Federal Judge Rules"

peterth3 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 17:31:53 +0000

I wouldn’t trust the narrator here. As the CEO, Jeremy is incentivized to exaggerate the impact. It’s yet to be seen whether Bitcoin, Ethereum or Doge will be considered securities. Neither Bitcoin or Ethereum seem to pass the Howey test [0], but who knows.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_v._W._J._Howey_Co.

New comment by peterth3 in "LBRY Sold Tokens as Securities, Federal Judge Rules"

peterth3 — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 23:54:37 +0000

> One significant case the LBRY ruling could impact is the SEC’s suit against Ripple Labs and two of its executives, who have been charged with selling $1.3 billion in unregistered securities. Much like LBRY, Ripple Labs’ defense has hinged on its claim that its native token XRP is not a security.

The precedents being set with these cases will have an enormous ripple effect on crypto and web3 companies.

LBRY Sold Tokens as Securities, Federal Judge Rules

peterth3 — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 23:44:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/11/07/lbry-sold-tokens-as-securities-federal-judge-rules/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33514158

Points: 15

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New comment by peterth3 in "“There Seem to be 10 managers for every one dev at Twitter” – Elon"

peterth3 — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 07:38:08 +0000

Revenue/employee at Twitter is about $600k while it’s over $1.2M at Meta and Google [0]. Elon is winding up for a layoff with comments like this. Not sure if the accuracy of his comment is relevant.

[0] https://twitter.com/RyanReeves_/status/1423013707190206464?l...

New comment by peterth3 in "The coming long-run slowdown in corporate profit growth and stock returns"

peterth3 — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:32:13 +0000

It could be a bear market rally, which would not be too unusual [0]. Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan) says the market could drop another 20% before we hit bottom [1]. Then there’s OPEC threatening to cut supply. So, there’s certainly a chance of more pain to come in the stock market, but it’s impossible to predict a bottom.

I do agree with your overall sentiment though. After this economic storm passes there will likely be good times ahead for the US. There are lots of great companies selling at a discount right now and there will be more in the near future. It’s a great time for long-term investors to buy. (Apple is looking great!)

With that being said, this may represent a permanent change in the tech industry. Especially for startups and private, VC-backed companies. Last year we saw private SaaS companies raise at 100x ARR. Those multiples have dropped back down to 8-10x and may never reach similar heights again.

This could even be the end of the Unicorn era. We’ve had near 0% interest rates since 2008. This was the primary driver of high tech valuations and the proliferation of Unicorns. Now with rates closer to normal, profitability will be expected sooner from tech companies and startups.

In fact, Bessemer is trying to retire the term “Unicorn,” which is valuation-based, and replace it with “Centaur,” which is ARR-based (ARR>=$100M) [2]. It hasn’t caught on yet, but I’m a fan of the punnier spelling (CentARR).

[0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-big-of-a-bear-ma...

[1] https://www.barrons.com/articles/jp-morgan-jamie-dimon-51665...

[2] https://www.bvp.com/centaur

New comment by peterth3 in "D-Wave Launches in AWS Marketplace"

peterth3 — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 16:20:44 +0000

D-Wave is not a universal quantum computer. It’s a quantum annealer [0].

[0] https://www.quora.com/Why-is-D-Waves-quantum-computer-not-co...

New comment by peterth3 in "Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold"

peterth3 — Fri, 13 May 2022 16:36:16 +0000

dang, a personal attack…

I’ll leave. Peace