There's plenty of retrieval-based models that do cite sources. They just didn't want to deal with it for this release.[1] I'm sure it's already on the roadmap.
[1] In fact, some snooping suggests they specifically disabled that feature, but do have it in test environments. See the "browsing disabled" flag they have in the hidden prompt. That could easily be used for citations. Source: (https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1598253337400717313)
No, it would take approximately 3 minutes where you either write a paragraph in the desired style yourself or paste one from the Internet and then ask it to continue in that style. Even if you decided to go the more onerous fine-tuning route, it would require 1-2mb of text, cost very little, and you'd be done in a few hours. It's easy.
Parent comment reads as if they lack the mental faculties to grasp basic English. It’s no wonder that a cursory Google search is beyond their abilities.
Athanasius is greek for "immortal" and is a common name of saints, church fathers etc. Lubensk (Лубенськ) is an obscure city near Luhansk. Saint Athanasius of Lubensk refers to Athanasius III of Constantinople, saint of the Orthodox church known as an "enlightener", who died near Lubensk. According to the Wikipedia article[1] he sometimes appears to people in dream visions, so your experience is not entirely without precedent.
This along with the groundhog dying the day before Groundhog Day makes it seem like there's some dice game being played by the gods for the human race.
A friend of mine said at the end of 2020 that his prediction was that "2020 will be the best year of the decade" and it's scary watching that cynicism come true.
There was talk of a recently written book that said everything is on a 75-100 year cycle of peace and chaos, and chaos was going to be happening again and soon. This was in 2018-2019 and every year since 2020 has been worse than the previous.
edit - book is the fouth turning, pretty accurate given it was written in 1997:
75-100 years is roughly 3 generations. Which is, I guess about the average number of generations we have in our smallest social unit: the family. I guess we learn a lot from our parents and grandparents, but hardly anything from our great-grandparents, as they are usually not longer around. Which means 75-100 years is the learning horizon within our families, and therefore for a big part of our journey to become social beings.
I am a bit worried that we are loosing quickly the last people remembering the atrocities of ww1+2.
> A saeculum is a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or, equivalently, the complete renewal of a human population.[1] Originally it meant the time from the moment that something happened (for example the founding of a city) until the point in time that all people who had lived at the first moment had died. At that point a new saeculum would start. According to legend, the gods had allotted a certain number of saecula to every people or civilization; the Etruscans, for example, had been given ten saecula.[2
Books are more abstract. The internet has video and sound and casual conversations and memes and the daily trivialities of the life of millions of ordinary people.
If books and newspapers made a as difference when they were new, I don’t know. But now I want to know.
Unfortunately, large parts of human memory are 404.
I wish that was just a pithy remark - link rot is really, and it's rapid. Add to that that modern paper is deteriorating at a rapid pace, and the memory of humankind is starting to look shaky.
True. But I could imagine that 100 years from now, kids may browse the Facebook feed of their great grandparents, maybe even as a immersive 3D recreation of the life of their relative from a century ago. Including all their personal notes and thoughts.
Only speaking for myself here, but I thought 2021 was much better than 2020. With that said, it is better in the sense of "This shit sandwich tasted a little better than this shit sandwich".
2020 was really bad for sure, pandemic started, riots/protests, fires in western US.
2021 imo was worse due to pandemic being worse than 2020(delta), and now you have shelves bare, ships backed up off the coast of California. Inflation going very high, housing skyrocketing.
2022 was omicron wave(worse than delta) inflation getting worse than 2021, now war with Russia and gas spiking(prices at pump at levels never seen before)
the current economic system is bound to collapse every 80 years because of some very basic math. insane people will try to blame everyone for a lack of discipline and simply restart the same garbage we already have
In 2020, it was not yet clear whether or not Donald Trump would be the last US president.
In 2021, that question was answered with a pretty decisive 'No'.
Between America not turning into a president-for-life sort of country, 8 billion doses of the 'rona vaccine getting administered around the world, and the second variant of note turning out to be a lot less dangerous than the first, there were quite a few metrics by which the trend of things got better.
2022 is off to a rough start, but there's still hope that it won't come to an early end, courtesy of a joint Topol-Minuteman peacekeeping exercise.
> makes it seem like there's some dice game being played by the gods for the human race.
Have you ever read Small Gods by Terry Pratchett? Great book. Your comment reminded me of it because it includes the gods of that world dicing over a war of their followers
Yes, and it was definitely who I was thinking of when I typed it out, along with this one.
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
> A friend of mine said at the end of 2020 that his prediction was that "2020 will be the best year of the decade" and it's scary watching that cynicism come true.
A bit of survivorship bias. There are superstitious things like this all over the world , just one of them happened to break now so everyone’s like we’re doomed.
I mean I agree we’re doomed but what the H does this rock have to do with it!
"Monks, do not wage wordy warfare, saying: 'You don't understand this Dhamma and discipline, I understand this Dhamma and discipline'; 'How could you understand it? You have fallen into wrong practices: I have the right practice'; 'You have said afterwards what you should have said first, and you have said first what you should have said afterwards'; 'What I say is consistent, what you say isn't'; 'What you have thought out for so long is entirely reversed'; 'Your statement is refuted'; 'You are talking rubbish!'; 'You are in the wrong'; 'Get out of that if you can!'
"Why should you not do this? Such talk, monks, is not related to the goal, it is not fundamental to the holy life, does not conduce to disenchantment, dispassion, cessation, tranquillity, higher knowledge, enlightenment or to Nibbana. When you have discussions, monks, you should discuss Suffering, the Arising of Suffering, its Cessation, and the Path that leads to its Cessation. Why is that? Because such talk is related to the goal... it conduces to disenchantment... to Nibbana. This is the task you must accomplish."
No, but I didn't say I was a good practitioner. That's why I practise for a rebirth in Amitabha's Pure Land.
My feelings come from a place of hate and malice, but also compassion for the Asian Buddhists who tell me every single day how they feel their religion is being defaced.
Your feelings are understandable, but I'd say you will be more effective in actually helping people if you manage to develop compassion even towards people who seem hate-worthy. I wish you continued success in your practice.
It depends on what you'd consider fundamental. It's true that most of our advances since the mid-80s have been about improving the robustness, data- and compute-efficiency of the training process through optimized architectures and learning algorithms, and in principle in the limit of infinite data and compute you could have taken a model from 1986 and scaled it up to do everything that our current models do. In that sense there have been no "fundamental" advances.
On the other hand, in the limit of infinite size and complexity most mathematical functions can be represented by hash maps, yet to say that there have been no fundamental advances in programming since the invention of hash maps in the fifties would seem like an odd claim to make.
There's a good reason for this -- the version of GPT-3 used for these tests was fine-tuned on CYOA adventures, where this kind of sudden death is very common.
[1] In fact, some snooping suggests they specifically disabled that feature, but do have it in test environments. See the "browsing disabled" flag they have in the hidden prompt. That could easily be used for citations. Source: (https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1598253337400717313)