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Another anecdote of possible interest.

Honestly, some of the leading research is done by state-owned universities, EU and China are providing computing grants on public funds...

I've been to actual warzones and slums the size of whole cities in the west. Even if you hate the current (very hateable) status quo, I...

Maybe that's just the difference between commercial AI application sold 300 €/user/month and the 20 $ solution for the general public ;)...

It's somewhat inseparable though, right? It's hard to take an area of technological progress and say "we're going to see how it affects...

I've heard this before and it always strikes me as odd. I'm genuinely curious: if asking, "Are you sure?" identifies most...

Ime prompting with some variant of "are you sure about that?" identifies a significant number of hallucinations.

Sure, and an LLM would certainly fail at some point, but packaged AI solutions are promising to do so. I'd expect them not to rely only...

You made a jump there that just isn't true. Yes, it's the tiny models that you can run at home. But just having the ability to do so...

If the funding of AI leads to increase funding to nuclear fusion, allowing its discovery as a by-product of the AI race, then the AI...

This is all obviously true, the costs and social benefits are distinct from whether I find it useful. But, you go on to finish this...

Likewise, I want to respond to this specifically. I agree with your entire description of the limitations based on mechanism, but I...

A few comments I want to respond to in parallel: I don't think the way other people are describing LLMs being used here matches my...

The problem with the video is that it's... like a lot of newspaper report, pretty lacking in data. We get a single anecdote (possibly...