Lol those orbs! Oddly, Worldcoin's main exchange is Binance which stopped doing business in USA so I couldn't get a bag. Up almost 10x. Not bad for a sphere that proves "personhood". With AI making actual people vs machine created more difficult to discern, it may have evermore applications.
There is an enormous amount of skepticism towards the US TSMC deal in Taiwan, in the sense that Tsai Ing-wen “sold out” Taiwanese IP and top engineers due to political pressure.
And in fairness, the US does not have a strong track record wrt its overseas military shenanigans actually helping locals, to put it lightly. A lot of people in Taiwan are anti-CCP, but at the same time, not pro-US because they see the US as an untrustworthy or at least unreliable military ally.
OTOH it seems fairly safe to build a TSMC factory in the US and loan us some engineers. I mean it isn’t as if we’re actually going to make the long term investments in the education of our people required to steal TSMC’s secrets.
> There is an enormous amount of skepticism towards the US TSMC deal in Taiwan, in the sense that Tsai Ing-wen “sold out” Taiwanese IP and top engineers due to political pressure.
I followed that story in the media for months. I never saw this sentiment. Can you share some sources? I couldn't find anything from mainstream media.
Exactly this. I recently wanted to gift my sick mother something to let her watch the shows she likes while she gets better. I check all the major streaming sites, genuinely wanting to buy a subscription because it would be way easier. I considered buying her subscriptions to all the major companies but decided the hassle of managing the logins would be too difficult for her. So in the end I reluctantly ended up torrenting everything onto a single usb stick for her. There is currently genuinely no other way to watch all the things you want in one place other than this. Netflix has accelerated the problem by making their catalogue nothing but shitty self made shows, every year it just gets worse.
Ok come on, this has gotta be a regulatory capture
stunt. None of this is surprising or particularly dangerous.
You can do this for literally any topic. Choose something
lawmakers are scared of, write a scary paper showing how GPT (“research preview only” of course) can assist with it, and make big vague statements calling for an urgent need for more safety work in the area. Since uncensored GPT will talk about everything, this works for every topic!
Make no mistake folks, the OpenAI “safety” budget is entirely about PR and squashing open source AI.
Controversial take: why not teach your daughters to embrace and win at the social media game? It’s not going away, and being able to successfully navigate that world is going to be a tangible advantage to them later in life. Self worth and happiness, despite what we might want to believe, are largely tied to social status. As parents it may be kinder to help our kids succeed at the game rather than pretend it doesn’t exist.
It isn't universal. Some want to become superstars and famous and some do not. Acceptance with your position in society is more conductive to happiness.
But social media very strongly underlines another reality. Not everyone can become a star, stardom is often very short lived, stars may not be the happiest people, fans might not be the nicest. Those smart enough to last a long time in public would probably be able to tell you a lot about necessary the sacrifices too.
But the fear of missing something or being left out is probably exactly what drives anxiety, especially in those that might have a bit more self-awareness.
Parents could support social media use, of course, but I would compare that to putting children up for a beauty contest.
So here’s a conundrum. The longevity literature consistently reports that caloric restriction and in particular minimising protein intake, including eg the BCAAs found in protein powders, leads to a longer lifespan. Other things like mTOR that are associated with muscle growth also lead to shorter lifespan.
Basically it seems like you have a choice - live a long life, or get muscular.
There are two subtleties about this that often are not talked about.
1) The caloric restriction -> longevity research shows that it's generally true, but it much more pronounced in small creatures that spend a significant amount of "lifetime energy expenditure" during reproduction (like mice). So while caloric restriction makes a mouse live 30% longer (making up numbers here), the same proportion of caloric restriction may give <1% extra life in a human.
2) There often a quantity vs quality of life trade off too. Let's say reducing mTOR and BCAA takes a few years off of your life but you have much more muscle and with that great posture and movement that doesn't break down your body and you feel great (and if we believe the linked article more sex too). Is that a trade off you're willing to take?
Same argument can be made with HRT for older men (I'm nearing that age). It seems that lots of the scary news related to HRT and anabolics in general is more about looking at the negative effects without accounting for the quality of life improvements that come from just being stronger.
There is no doubt that excessive protein intake is bad.
However, when attempting to reduce your protein intake, great care is required to not reduce it too much, like for everything else that is bad in excess, but which is still necessary for life.
A too low daily protein intake leads to various problems, e.g. a too low albumin level in the blood, which are guaranteed to reduce your lifespan.
Amazing stuff. It’s unfortunate that you have to be a famous blogger to get access to this. It’s been said enough at this point but it really goes against the spirit of OpenAI and what they ostensibly stand for.
And that it’s crippled to be prevent expressions of concepts of violence, politics, or sexuality. Making it the worlds most advanced clip art generator instead of a revolutionarily powerful tool for artistic expression.
And before anyone even says it… obviously they have to try and prevent child porn. That’s settled US Law with regards to artistic depictions of underage sex. However everything else they are preventing (and would ban you for if they caught you deliberately found a way to trick it into producing) is protected artistic expression under freedom of speech, first amendment stuff.
While some jurisdictions, notably Japan and the US Federal level, are not legally concerned with depictions of underage sex that does not have anything to do with an incident of actual underage sex, other jurisdictions such as the majority of US States at the state level have laws that treat any visual depictions of underage sex as equivalent be they photographs of a real event or artistic depictions of completely imaginary stuff.
So while it’s a fair position to take that banning it is absurd… as a Corporation in US legal jurisdictions such as I believe California, Washington and Delaware, they will have to comply with state law regarding such matters in three separate jurisdictions, easiest way being to completely prevent the objectionable content entirely.
Certainly, I was more talking about the law itself. It seems to me that if there was a flood of fake child porn, the demand for real child porn would plummet.
The reason is that there will be more children abused. People who watch things will have a tendency to do that thing. Analogy: we had "fight club" fights outside bars 20 years ago.
I think it makes perfect sense to ban child porn, and strongly support it.
"People who watch things will have a tendency to do that thing."
Given the fact that millions upon millions of children play incredibly violent video games without feeling the urge to go on killing sprees, I'd say what you're saying is completely specious, but I can understand that critical thinking can be difficult.
In those video games people are in general playing as heroes. If million of kids where playing games where the "protagonist" was a school shooter then yes I believe we would see an increase in school shootings.
The revolutionary powerful tool for radically upsetting artistic expression will not come from a billion-dollar corporate-funded research consortium and frankly a lot of artists would have a worldview crisis if it did. ;-)
It’s probably not the same kind of worldview crisis but the fact that by massively commodifying unique (and that’s the key word since unique work costs more) business friendly corporate clip art and stock photo type content without needing anyone with artistic talent or skill, it’s going to suck away a lot of the money that would otherwise have gone to artists who otherwise don’t have a great career track as far as “average income” is concerned. Struggling artist is a meme for a reason, and when it’s as easy as “push button… receive art” it’s hard to imagine that not making it even more of a struggle. Which does feel like a somewhat incipient worldview crisis in a more career viability sort of way.
Probably not enough RAM. The page isn't doing anything crazy, but includes a dozen or so example <video>'s, which in turn can send Linux into an out-of-memory situation that freezes the system (technically it's still working just really slow). Ran into that issue a lot when browsing around with 8GB RAM, upgrading that helped. Installing earlyoom[1] is another workaround.
Thanks, earlyoom looks interesting. But as I know where my memory usage goes (Firefox, mostly) I think I'll just write a script to kill Firefox if I run out. Much better than waiting for the scheduler to kill KDE out from under me!
> That’s settled US Law with regards to artistic depictions of underage sex.
I'm not clear what you mean by this. The laws regarding CSAM vary a lot across the USA because of the different states and then federal law on top. After a federal Supreme Court ruling that virtual images didn't meet the definition of CSAM a lot of jurisdictions modified their statutes to make constructed images also illegal (e.g. cartoons like "lolicon" come under this). It really comes down to where in the USA you live, and remembering that for most Internet crimes the state can charge you and also the federal government can also charge you. I wouldn't screw with these laws either. If I remember correctly there is one US state that has a mandatory minimum of 100 years in prison for a single image.
You’re right about the Supreme Court verdict and the subsequent state law changes, which is why I called it “settled”. It’s settled in the “normal conditions” sense. There’s basically no where you could operate the servers or send it to a user where it wouldn’t probably be a violation. If you operate in the USA then your subject to that hodgepodge of state laws, which mean you just have to avoid it because it’s too big if a risk.
A true artist can express themselves without violence, politics, or sexuality. Art is about using the tools available to you and creating art. michelangelo didn’t have cad or 3d modeling programs, but he created great sculptures using the tools available to him.
It’s all well and good to mention great artists and such. But it’s a bad comparison, this is about a tool that is conceptually limited, it’s something art has never had before. We didn’t have paint brushes that wouldn’t let you use them to paint a nude portrait or spray cans that refused to let you use them do create graffiti.
This artistic tool is built to prevent you trying to create content containing certain concepts which is a fundamental new factor in how artistic tools shape the art that is created with them.
And in case my viewpoint isn’t clear, I don’t think it’s a good thing, and that we should not allow it to become normal. I don’t object to its existence, because I understand corporate politics and how it leads to this. But this sort of crippled tool has all the concerning potentials of “newspeak” in Orwell’s 1984, except to art not to language.
Blame that to the harsh criticism these models get on reception. If you say "picture of a doctor" and the output does not cover all races and genders with equal probability, then it's biased. If you say "John wants to become a *" and it fills in stereotypical male dominated jobs, then it's biased.
> But it’s a bad comparison, this is about a tool that is conceptually limited, it’s something art has never had before. We didn’t have paint brushes that wouldn’t let you use them to paint a nude portrait or spray cans that refused to let you use them do create graffiti.
But is the comparison to 'art' apt?
The platonic ideal is that this will work like the holodeck from the Enterprise, but the skill is all in the machine, there is no effort or skill for the consumer aside from the decision what she wants to see.
I can enter "monkey on a bicycle" in the Google image search and Google shows me pictures of monkeys on bikes. Dalle works exactly the same. Is Googles image search for that reason like a paint brush? Should it make illegal content available? I don't think so, it is a content service. A future Dalle-22 may be virtually indistinguishable from Youtube or Pornhub and A) it should be able decide what it wants to be and B) be bound by the same laws like youtube or pornhub.
The skill is in providing the inputs that produce output pleasing to the audience. To use another Star Trek analogy, “Tea” isn’t the same as “Tea, Earl Grey, Hot” by using more specific inputs you “cook” with the replicator.
This is the way it’s an artistic tool. You can say “monkey on a bicycle” and sure you get it randomly generating stuff, but if I ask for “capuchin monkey riding a red schwin bicycle with whitewall tires and a basket on the front handlebars” I’ve used the tool to craft a specific image I’ve constructed in my imagination, it becomes a tool to take what I have imagined and realise it, it’s an artistic tool just like the photoshop contextual fill tool is an art tool, just way more advanced.
As for future iterations… I don’t see any reason to assume that “Dall-E 22” or even “Dall-E 44” will somehow gain sentience and have tastes or be capable of deciding what content it want to produce for us. The “Tastes” of this model are determined by its training data, as is what it is capable of generating, you mentioned PornHub and that’s a great example, no matter how good the model gets at generating photorealistic things from descriptions, if they don’t include anything in the training data that’s labeled as “dildo” then the mode will have no way of knowing what to generate and will just produce randomised nonsense… so again you would be forced to use it as an artistic tool, to describe the scene constructively like they do with their dead horse example, “horse sleeping in a lake of red liquid” produced an image that looked like a dead horse in a lake of blood. If you have to do this then you are “painting” a scene by writing an elaborate description of everything in it and are using the model as an artistic tool in order to produce the visual image you want.
Agreed. The same thing happened with GPT-3. The waitlists for OpenAI products are always obscene. The TechnoSiliconValleyTwitterPersonality elites always seem to get next day access. But normal people who aren’t chronically online seemingly never get access. Not very Open of them.
This is unsurprising. Every tech company does this. Pretty much all maps apps redraw boundaries of places like Taiwan and Crimea to suit local sensitivities. Search engines selectively censor content, etc.
When I was at university, all the physicists loved to humblebrag about the “crackpots” that came to them, and how much dumber they were than real physicists. They had a similar but less pronounced snobbish dislike for students from other faculties, like engineering.
The thing is, most of them (with a couple of exceptions) weren’t actually any smarter. They just “knew the language”, exactly as this article says. Sadly, their attitude turned a number of people off physics I think.
The tone of this article is similar. The author kindly took the time to talk to the unwashed masses because he felt sorry for them, or something. But, as he said, he never learnt anything real from them, except how to communicate better with idiots.
I couldn't disagree more about the tone of this article. Is it possible you are projecting your past experience of that snobbish attitude onto this article? To me it seems to be an article about a real, practical attempt to bridge the gap between autodidacts and academics, and is written with empathy and honesty.
Adding to clarify: I agree the snobbish attitude you describe does exist. I just think it’s exactly what this article addresses. He gives an honest report of what it’s like from his perspective, in good humour. And sums it all up with this:
> I still get the occasional joke from colleagues about my ‘crackpot consultant business’, but I’ve stopped thinking of our clients that way. They are driven by the same desire to understand nature and make a contribution to science as we are. They just weren’t lucky enough to get the required education early in life, and now they have a hard time figuring out where to even begin. At the same time, the physicists on my team like to help others understand more about science and appreciate the opportunity to apply their knowledge outside academia. In connecting both sides, everybody wins. And who knows? Maybe we’ll be the first to learn of the new Theory of Everything.
I wonder who these well-spoken, educated scammers are and how they’re recruited.
Pet theory: voice recordings will be the next fingerprints/DNA, at some point it will be trivial to identify the person based on old recordings. At which point we can retroactively convict these people years or decades later, when they thought they were out of the woods.
> retroactively convict these people years or decades later, when they thought they were out of the woods
Limitations exists for most crimes and torts. Prosecuting someone years or decades later when potentially exculpatory evidence is less available (e.g. no one, even themselves can remember their alibis, etc.) would be highly unjust.
With costs of living skyrocketing everywhere and wages stagnating if not decreasing (remote work suddenly brings more competition) I wouldn't be surprised if otherwise legitimate people are tempted or even forced to do this out of desperation.
