More training data and token lengths seem to help, given how GPT-4 scores better on a lot of standardized tests than 3 and 3.5 do.
We don’t necessarily need to teach it not to lie, but just to improve accuracy through better training and training data. It (probably) won’t ever be 100% reliable, but what is? Google searches can be inaccurate, same with Wikipedia and other encyclopedias.
Definitely not. Electrek bought a LEV (Light Electric Vehicle) truck like this and it wasn’t. They’re unsafe for roads due to lack of many safety features
It doesn't surprise me that they are not street legal...but it's interesting to me that in all practicality, they are probably safer than riding a bike; and yet bikes are legal.
You can't give someone a dime (that they could have easily picked up from any of your competitors too) and then break into their house claiming they had been compensated. In this case they even steal code authored by people who never used GitHub at all, but had someone else mirror it or publish it on GitHub.
That would essentially be at will employment, our current system. “Stopping” at two years is an improvement from our current system because employment (or rather, a salary) would be a guaranteed via a contract. People wouldn’t sign a weekly contract like that if a 2yr contract existed elsewhere
People like to think that evil bosses will fire people for shits and giggles a la "Black Fridays" in Arrested Development, but finding and training people is such a hassle, the theoretical "you can be fired whenever for no reason" is rarely abused to that extent.
> the theoretical "you can be fired whenever for no reason" is rarely abused to that extent.
I used to think this way until it happened to me. The CEO didn't care that she was losing a senior technical resource because it wasn't going to be her job to replace me. She found out I was interviewing and fired me because she hated it when people resigned. It was so bizarre, but those people do exist.
I think in organizations where the loss of an individual with years of institutional knowledge is felt, this applies more.
Startup just acquired a competitor and doubled its headcount overnight? Who cares about retraining folks you want to fire after that? You have to reorganize the new merged organization anyways, what better than to realign salaries with existing budgets?
This is a great idea for learning Go! I’ve been trying to pick it up recently and tried to do a CLI for indexing and searching through files. Reading PDFs is such a long hill to climb while trying to learn a new language. A game or something with a TUI sounds like a much more enjoyable goal.
Great article! Enjoyed the argument but I have a few disagreements
I disagree with the response to objection 1. Look for more than a few moments at the right side picture and the shadows of the chess pieces are low quality, the shadows continue off the table, and the checkers on the board look more like backgammon than chess. The AI generated sites that clutter google are easily identified as low quality GPT 3 nonsense.
I’d also disagree that the AI “understands” the physics of the sun, or that Africa has a lot of desert. The prompt includes the desert, so it pulls from pictures of the desert. It doesn’t understand that people have a face when they concentrate either, it finds a picture of someone playing chess then maps an “African fortune teller” onto that person. Oh, it also has to grab photos of an African fortune teller. The AIs used as examples in this article (DALLE, Copilot) are regurgitated humans. What happens when we have new tasks that we can’t train on? They don’t “understand” things, they recreate them.
Maybe I’m just typically bad at estimating the exponential growth. I’m not optimistic I can replace humans with Copilot authored pull requests anytime soon. It might be good at “write a function to convert ISO date time to MM/DD/YYYY” but we’re decades off of “create an API for managing a warehouses inventory.” Either way, being replaced by copilot would require business partners to be able to explain what they want, so I’m not worried.
I’m the same way, not picky as long as I can figure out where to click. I just did the reverse of KDE -> Gnome, I miss KDE here and there but I’ve been able to take the pieces I miss and replace them with gnome extensions.
Gnome was faster to get started with but KDE felt deeper. KDEs UI is denser, which imo makes it feel less “modern” but both KDE and Gnome are usable.
Best thing you can do is to spin up a VM and try it out yourself! Everyone’s different.
The United States. The first free market country, and the first to raise the standard of living of scores of millions of people out of poverty into the middle and even wealthy classes.
The American people are also the most generous in the world, by donations to charity.
I know that the popular view is the US is some sort of hellhole, but yet millions of people are trying to immigrate here, walking thousands of miles just to try.
The people walking to America are doing it because they are coming from extremely violent countries where they are in immediate danger. My family came from Romania, a place where they jailed or beat my family members on a regular basis during communism, then had horrible brain drain and 0 opportunities post communism. People aren't emigrating from countries like Germany the way they are from El Salvador. Being better than a place where your life is in immediate danger or where there is ZERO economic opportunity is not much of an accomplishment. Please use correct comparisons when you are making statements like this.
"The American people are also the most generous in the world, by donations to charity." Why can't we just setup government programs to fill the in the gaps that charities provide?
The oceans are a major barrier to people walking here from other countries. Consider as well all the countries they walk through to get here. They come from Cuba, too, the socialist paradise.
There are a lot of people from Romania in the Seattle area, I am friends with some. I am not unacquainted with their stories of how bad things were there. All I can say is welcome to the US!
P.S. All my ancestors hail from various European countries that emigrated to the US, including Germany.
Yes, they come from Cuba because the US is the closest countries with opportunities, just like many people flee to Italy from the north of Africa or from the middle east. Also cuba is a bad example because of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Adjustment_Act and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_feet,_dry_feet_policy. They are incentivezed to leave the totalitarian regime of Cuba (which is not socialist to be clear) to the US. The goal of bringing up Romania and El Salvador was to show how the bad conditions at the time forced people to leave. People don't leave countries that are doing well.
Also, your friends are probably from a select group of people who came in highly educated. People who come in with 0 education (like my parents) are not treated well in America. Many of the Romanian families that I grew up with in South Florida have gone back, as America honestly isn't that great compared to what has developed in Romania over time (its pretty nice now!).
The Romanians I know arrived here with nothing and now are well off.
I've also run into two Afghans who escaped from the Taliban here with nothing, having lost everything in Afghanistan. They started their own businesses and are thriving here.
> Cuba (which is not socialist to be clear)
Of course. A common theme of all socialist governments is socialists deny their children.
