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“Fascists”: Elon Musk responds to proposed fines for disinformation on X
  • They're not even fighting against fascism per se they're just asking him to obey the law. Asking people to obey the law isn't exactly a political position.

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    Manchester rioter's mum who went on £1,200 Ibiza trip must pay compensation amounting to cost of her holiday
  • Yes. Being a parent is a matter of personal responsibility. You have to take responsibility for your sprog's behavior at least until they're of legal age.

    That's what is involved in being an adult and a parent.

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    OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities
  • They hide the thought steps to mask this fact and to prevent others from benefiting from all of the finetuning data they paid for.

    Well possibly but they also hide the chain of thought steps because as they point out in their article it needs to be able to think about things outside of what it's normally allowed allowed to say which obviously means you can't show the content. If you're trying to come up with worst case scenarios for a situation you actually have to be able to think about those worst case scenarios

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    OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities
  • I work in computer science but not really anything to do with AI so I'm only adjacently knowledgeable about it. But my understanding is unfortunately, no not really. The problem would be that if you run a bunch of evolutions in parallel you just get a bunch of independent AIs, all with slightly different parameters but they're incapable of working together because they weren't evolved to work together, they were evolved independently.

    In theory you could come up with some kind of file format that allowed for the transfer of AI between each cluster, but you'd probably spend as much time transferring AI as you saved by having multiple iterations run at the same time. It's n^n problem, where n is the number of AIs you have.

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    OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities
  • No we didn't, Artificial General Intelligence has been determined since the '90s.

    We've always differentiated Artificial Intelligence and Artificial General Intelligence.

    What we have now is AI, I don't know anyone who's claiming that it's AGI though.

    People keep saying people are saying that this is AGI, but I've not seen anyone say that, not in this thread or anywhere else. What I have seen said is people saying this is a step on the road to AGI which is debatable but it isn't the same as saying this thing here is AGI.

    Edit to add proof:

    From Wikipedia although I'm sure you can find other sources if you don't believe me.

    The term "artificial general intelligence" was used as early as 1997, by Mark Gubrud in a discussion of the implications of fully automated military production and operations. A mathematical formalism of AGI was proposed by Marcus Hutter in 2000.

    So all of this happened long before the rise of large language models so no the term has not been co-opted.

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    OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities
  • To be a little nitpicky most of the AI that can play Mario kart are trained not with a reinforcement learning algorithm, but woth a genetic algorithm, which is a sort of different thing.

    Reinforcement learning is rather like how you teach a child. Show them a bunch of good stuff, and show them a bunch of bad stuff, and tell them which is the good stuff and which is the bad stuff.

    Genetic algorithms are where you just leave it alone, simulate the evolutionary process on an accelerated time scale, and let normal evolutionary processes take over. Much easier, and less processor intensive, plus you don't need huge corpuses of data. But it takes ages, and it also sometimes results in weird behaviors because evolution finds a solution you never thought of, or it finds a solution to a different problem to the one you were trying to get it to find a solution to.

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    OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities
  • I don't think anyone is actually claiming this is AGI though. Basically people are going around going "it's not AGI you idiot", when no one's actually saying it is.

    You're arguing against a point no one's making.

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    OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities
  • You want to keep a pizza together? Ah yes my amazing concepts of sticking stuff together tells me you should add 1/2 spoons of glue

    That would be a good test to ask it that question and see if it comes up with a more coherent answer.

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    OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities
  • Is that even the goal? Do we want an AI that's self aware because I thought that basically the whole point was to have an intelligence without a mind.

    We don't really want sapient AI because if we do that then we have to feel bad about putting it in robots and making them do boring jobs. Don't we basically want guildless servants, isn't that the point?

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    Huawei unveils world’s first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate Design
  • I suppose that would be an improvement for the people with cancer (assuming the options are mutually exclusive). I don't think it would be that great for everyone else though so on balance I cannot support this idea.

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    Data Centres... in Spaaace? [16m YT vid]
  • I think you're missing my main point which is that it's possible to do it If reusable spacecraft become available.

    Your objections make no sense if such a technology exists.

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    Hollywood and Netflix Report Piracy Threats to the EU, Call for 'Intermediary' Action
  • They won't, it's just they're so used to getting their own way with the government in the US that they think that this will cause the EU to do anything.

    Privacy is already illegal, technically, it's just no one really enforces it, mostly because the law is so vague it's hard to work out if anyone has actually broken it. They're not going to start enforcing it just because Hollywood wants them to.

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    Hollywood and Netflix Report Piracy Threats to the EU, Call for 'Intermediary' Action
  • Well that's the second stage isn't it.

    Start off by being the cheap and cheerful option, then raise prices and justify it by diversifying into more high quality products, and actually do that, create better quality products so people think the price increase is actually acceptable.

    Then slowly cut back on the higher quality products and go back to your basic service but don't change the price.

    You see it in food, you see it in streaming services, you see it in video games. Remember when Call Of Duty was actually good?

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    Hollywood and Netflix Report Piracy Threats to the EU, Call for 'Intermediary' Action
  • Netflix didn't have this problem when only Netflix existed. Then they started removing content from their platform and pissed everyone off so people started pirating because they wanted their content back.

    Then a bunch of other streaming services started and Netflix didn't really do anything to make their product more attractive, so those streaming providers ended up getting more content. Then Netflix cut back on their own unique content, which was their main drive in the first place (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, And yes I know it was terrible, but Discovery). So now I have to have 35 different subscriptions if I want to be 100% legit.

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    Sausage rolls and Oasis: ‘Britishcore’ TikTok trend drives interest in UK culture
  • Well at least they're not all going to London I guess. That's an improvement.

    Although I question the validity of going to a supermarket as a unique experience. Pretty sure everyone has supermarkets.

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  • When you reveal a spoiler the black rectangles go away and it then renders the text in white, but on a white background (light coloured theme) The text renders is exactly the same colour as the background and so you can not see it unless you highlight the post, this renders the background of the post as light grey and there is just about enough contrast difference to now read the text.

    When spoiler text is revealed it should render in the same colour as normal text. I'm not sure why it's white.

    See images below for demonstration.

    !spoiler text is hidden

    !spoiler text has been revealed but is invisible

    !text post is highlighted and now you can see the spoiler text rendered in white

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