- dwallinVery much agree with this. Looking at the dimensionality of a given problem space is a very helpful heuristic when analyzing how likely an llm is going to be suitable/reliable for that task. Consider how important positional encodings are LLM performance. You also then have an attention model that operates in that 1-dimensional space. With multidimensional data significant transformations to encode into a higher dimensional abstraction needs to happen within the model itself, before the model can even attempt to intelligently manipulate it.
- Seems like a case where directly going from sunlight to heat would be a better approach for this, instead of converting to electricity first.
- In order to make better ai tools for generating specific parts of a song, you ideally want models that understand what good music sounds like when put together. These sorts of "generate whole songs" are a predecessor to more specific tooling. These tools are slowly moving downstream (look at the evolution of Suno) and will almost certainly eventually move to a place where they are just a part of the music production workflow. We increasingly have improved tools to break down full tracks into stems, stems to/from midi/lyrics.
Lots of potential musicians / producers that can write a catchy tune, lyrics, create midi work, etc; but maybe can't play / don't own the instruments they want to use (could be disabled) or maybe don't have a great singing voice. These ai tools can lower the bar for more people to create music at a higher level. It can also act as a improvisational partner, to explore more musical space faster.
As a personal anecdote of where AI might be useful, as a hobby I occasionally participate in game jams, sometimes working on music / sound effects to stretch my legs form my day job. One game jam game I worked on was inspired by a teammates childhood in Poland. So I listened to a bunch of traditional Polish music and created a track inspired by said music. I'm pretty happy with how it came out, but with current AI I'm sure I could have improved the results significantly. If I were to be making it now, I would be able to upload the tracks I wrote, see how the AI might bring it closer to something that sounds authentic, and using that to help me rewrite parts of the melody where it was lacking. Then I could have piped in my final melody with it's inauthentic midi instrument (I neither own, nor play traditional polish stringed instruments) and used it to make something that sounds much closer to my target, with a more organic feel.
- I would say that the partial counterpoint to that is, for most people their values are also largely tribe based, in that their values are not purely fixed, but rather tend to adapt to loosely track the tribal consensus. Very few are the ones willing to stick to their convictions under pressure.
There are clearly some (many?) shared average axiomatic values that seem to be common between very different cultures/religions (although individuals vary much more significantly), but it's much easier to obsess on the places we differ.
Where I strongly disagree is the idea that groups with different fundamental values can't necessarily find common policy ground. A good example is Basic Income, where you can find agreement between groups on opposite sides that both embrace the idea, but for very different value-driven reasons. In many cases, you can also agree to disagree, and just keep your collective hands out of it (eg. separation of religion and state).
- The biggest click bait is the “It” which can clearly be seamlessly replaced with BYD, providing vastly increased utility at basically no increased complexity; no hard value determination needed. Intentionally removing useful information in an attempt to abuse the curiosity of readers and drive numbers is a type of enshittification in the news and information sphere.
- I agree that what ai music needs to become an industry tool is the ability to create, access and remix parts, but I think tools like Suno have more of the right idea vs tools like this. In order to be able to write intermediate parts properly, you need to be able to understand the whole and what things should sound like when put together, or when the notes are actually played by a musician. Then it’s easier to work back from there, split your tracks apart into stems, transcribe your stems into MIDI, etc.
Suno et al are moving in this direction but I honestly think development will be somewhat stunted until we get a good open source model(s), and something like control-nets.
- As best as I can tell your gut feeling and anecdotal experience here is not supported by evidence / data.
One particular example that had a good breakdown: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...
- There are a couple of things that human’s in general are bad at, and intuition is unhelpful, even if you are otherwise an intelligent, learned person. Two I see pop up a lot are Statistics and Systems Thinking. In particular with Systems Thinking, people tend to assume that things that have a simple clear relationship at the scale they operate in, will have the same effect when applied at the scale of the system as a whole. Which is quite often not the case.
- The constitution also explicitly sets up formal departments with specific purviews, with heads that need to be approved by congress. It also outlines that the president has the right to get the opinion of said principal offices about their duties (while seemingly failing to state any right to direct said opinions) This implies that the president’s executive authority over the departments is far from absolute, since if it was, why would you need to explicitly bestow a right to merely seek opinions?
If anything, the constitution implies that department heads SHOULD have independent opinions related to the purview of their departments.
“The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.”
- You can group your first three (food, water, shelter) under your fourth (survival). Then your next two examples are cases of how people feel.
On top of that you can find plenty of clear evidence for situations where humans choose feelings over survival, whether that’s giving up one’s own survival for the sake of people or a cause, or giving up on survival because emotional needs aren’t met.
It’s not as clear cut of a hierarchy as you seem to think it is.
- For one, I’ve seen interactive Gaussian Splatting interior flythroughs in the Google Maps app.
- The cost of having excess compute is less than the cost of not having enough compute to be competitive. Because of demand, if you realize you your current compute is insufficient there is a long turnaround to building up your infrastructure, at which point you are falling behind. All the major players are simultaneously working on increasing capabilities and reducing inference cost. What they aren’t optimizing is their total investments in AI. The cost of over-investment is just a drag on overall efficiency, but the cost of under-investment is existential.
- There's a nugget of something clever here but it's missing something, there's too much luck and not quite enough skill for a golf game.
My first thought was selecting from various dice with different distributions to represent the various golf clubs.
My second was that a hex grid would offer a much better variety of options. The square grid only has 1 or 2 useful directions that can bring you closer. A hex grid would typically have 2 to 3 useful directions.a hex
Then I thought, this sounds like a good base for a board game, did a search and turns out there already is one that uses that formula! https://boardgamegeek.com/image/6370656/roll-in-one
- > I can't take an Andy Warhol painting, modify it in some way and then claim it's my own original work.
This is a hilarious choice of artist given that Warhol is FAMOUS for appropriating work of others without payment, modifying it in some way, and then turning around and selling it for tons of money. That was the entire basis of a lot of his artistic practice. There was even a Supreme Court case about it.
- I do want to point out, gaussian splats don't really offer anything in particular for realtime relighting, if anything it adds additional challenges. Under the hood, most implementations leverage spherical harmonics for baked-in lighting.
Did you by chance mean anisotropic spherical gaussians? ASG is a new-ish technique often used to model specular lighting but is unrelated to gaussian splatting.
- From an amazon employee reply in the thread:
"When we say “Manufacturing cost”, it means your cost to source a product from a manufacturer/wholesaler/reseller, or produce the item if you are the manufacturer. You can provide the proof of your cost of sourcing and we will reimburse you accordingly. If you do not wish to provide your cost, we will provide our cost estimate and we will reimburse you for it. We calculate our estimate by evaluating the sourcing cost of comparable products sold by Amazon, by other sellers, and through other wholesale channels.
It excludes costs such as shipping, handling, customs duties, or other costs."
You could possibly try setting up your own "reseller" entity, where they act as an in-between, handling the shipping costs, etc and then reselling it to upon arrival for near the price sold?
- I didn't say the consequences should be proportional, I said the responsibility (or blame); and profits derived should just be one part of the equation.
Criminal consequences of a company collectively being responsible for the deaths of individual(s) shouldn't just disappear because no one individual ostensibly caused it. A company is a system of incentives and processes, and if those incentives and processes are leading to preventable deaths and suffering, those who benefit most from and are most responsible for perpetuating those incentives and processes should be held liable.
- I would seriously wonder how much you understand about proportions given the average nurse makes about 00.000002% of the $4.5 trillion in annual health care spending in the USA.
I also didn't say that should be the only factor. Clearly proximate responsibility for the relevant decisions should be (and already is) part of the equation.
- Responsibility for the actions of a company should be somewhat proportional to the amount of profit derived from said activities.
- All signs point to this being fake.