merc @_merc_

cognitive science phd candidate interested in brains, minds, and machines @binghamtonu new york Joined November 2011

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merc @_merc_

23 hours ago

“those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities” — Voltaire

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sure, but the multi-trillion dollar question is: is better data (idealized, synthetic, etc.) better than more data? i.e., can you get more out of your models with less, but cleaner data? people seem to be pretty split on this…

Santiago @svpino

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Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka

3 days ago

his Coca-Cola can appears reddish, though it consists of black and white random dots.

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merc @_merc_

3 days ago

any definition of AGI that is only concerned with “intellectual tasks” is unsatisfactory and conveniently narrow. AGI should also encompass intelligences which give rise to social/emotional and especially physical abilities.

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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

5 days ago

Incredible display of zealot's corner

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harry law (kernel trick fan account) @lawhsw

2 weeks ago

e/accs and safetyists when the model finishes its training run

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Aman Sanger @amanrsanger

2 weeks ago

SWE-bench is probably contaminated for frontier models (gpt-4/claude-3-opus). Given only the name of a pull request in the dataset, Claude-3-opus already knows the correct function to modify.

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merc @_merc_

2 weeks ago

what kind of “AI enthusiast” are you?

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merc @_merc_

2 weeks ago

watched civil war. regretted it.

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merc @_merc_

2 weeks ago

we're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! that alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. we are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. -- Charles Bukowski

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merc @_merc_

2 weeks ago

the air strikes will continue until morale improves.

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merc @_merc_

2 weeks ago

the "debunking devin" video is a painful reminder that: 1.) current AI tech isn't that good 2.) companies pushing AI products will engage in deceit to farm hype (see also Gemini launch demo) 3.) the general public victimized by #2, leaving them blind to the reality of #1

Machine Learning Street Talk @MLStreetTalk

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merc @_merc_

2 weeks ago

bump this at my funeral 🕊️

art @_artsartsarts

2 weeks ago

bump this at my funeral 🕊️

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François Chollet @fchollet

2 weeks ago

Programming is thinking + syntax. Maybe 90% thinking and 10% syntax. While you can automate away syntax, you can only ever outsource thinking to someone/something that can think. Attempts to outsource thinking to a syntax generator do not end well.

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Dhruv Batra @DhruvBatraDB

2 weeks ago

I have been working on vision+language models (VLMs) for a decade. And every few years, this community re-discovers the same lesson -- that on difficult tasks, VLMs regress to being nearly blind! Visual content provides minor improvement to a VLM over an LLM, even when these…

AI at Meta @AIatMeta

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merc @_merc_

3 weeks ago

before long, the majority of text available on the internet will be AI generated. that is a sobering thought. what a time to be alive — for better and for worse.

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merc @_merc_

4 weeks ago

we are, at our core, storytellers. every decision, attitude and action pens the narrative we gift to the world.

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merc @_merc_

4 weeks ago

real-time, low latency, speech "clean up" would be a game changer for those with issues in speech production. giving the voiceless an opportunity to be heard may be one of the greatest gifts AI ever gives humanity. that's truly an inspiring thought.