Did anyone else notice
Geoffrey Hinton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrvK_KuIeJk
and
Peter Norvig
https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-already-here/
among everything else that's been going on?
Oh, and Youtube just rudely informed me that my adblocker is no
A nihilist can still have preferences.
> On Oct 12, 2023, at 10:21 AM, glen wrote:
>
> I think that's an ideological stance, not a brute fact. The use of the term
> "better" is nothing but an "ought", which is difficult to derive from an "is".
>
>> On 10/9/23 10:07, Marcus Daniels wrote:
I think that's an ideological stance, not a brute fact. The use of the term "better" is nothing but
an "ought", which is difficult to derive from an "is".
On 10/9/23 10:07, Marcus Daniels wrote:
We are better off if the ones that carry demonstrably false claims are
proportionately devalued.
: [FRIAM] Language Model Understanding
"Truth" is well defined. It is the set of propositions which assert that what
is the case is the case. Determining whether a given proposition is true may
be difficult.
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"Truth" is well defined. It is the set of propositions which assert that
what is the case is the case. Determining whether a given proposition is
true may be difficult.
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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM
On Mon, Oct 9, 2023, 10:23 AM glen
On 10/9/23 9:24 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
I mean there are some categories that are disjoint or mostly disjoint.
Similarly, the grounding is not total. I agree that value systems like MAGA
have power, but they don't have truth. There is no truth. All there is, is
power, which is my
are better off if the ones that
carry demonstrably false claims are proportionately devalued.
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From: Friam On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Monday, October 9, 2023 9:23 AM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Language Model Understanding
OK, I agree, mostly. But "
OK, I agree, mostly. But "truth" is no more well-defined than any other
specific grounding style. E.g. the insistence that there is truth in fiction. There is
affective truth in MAGA, just like there's truth in whatever justification Hamas might
give for its reaction to the bloodshed of the
I mean there are some categories that are disjoint or mostly disjoint.
Similarly, the grounding is not total. I agree that value systems like MAGA
have power, but they don't have truth. There is no truth. All there is, is
power, which is my point. QM and demagoguery are both tools, with
Hm. Even with the caveat of "generally", I think this complementarity argument fails
because all the various categories are not disjoint. And it's the (somewhat) lack(ing) of
grounding/binding that allows the mixing of the modes. I'd tried to point this out by using
"computation", the idea
ently many people in North America.)
Marcus
From: Friam <mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com> on
behalf of David Eric Smith <mailto:desm...@santafe.edu>
Date: Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 10:40 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
<mailto:friam@redfish.com>
S
th
*Date: *Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 10:40 AM
*To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
*Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Language Model Understanding
Zang! I had not made that connection.
Hmmh. What do I think? I seem to have viewed uninterpreted models
much as I view a hammer o
to judge the people who don’t value those types of societies.
(Apparently many people in North America.)
Marcus
From: Friam on behalf of David Eric Smith
Date: Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 10:40 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Language Model
ks. Algorithms guide how the
>>> model generates text and makes decisions.*
>>>
>>> *8. **NLP (Natural Language Processing)**: NLP is the field of study
>>> that focuses on teaching computers to understand and generate human
>>> language. LLMs are a pr
ce of using LLMs
>> responsibly and ethically. Journalists should consider the ethical
>> implications of using these tools, especially when it comes to issues like
>> privacy and misinformation.*
>>
>> *13. **API (Application Programming Interface)**: Some LLMs offer APIs
>&g
hical implications of
>>> using these tools, especially when it comes to issues like privacy and
>>> misinformation.
>>>
>>> 13. **API (Application Programming Interface)**: Some LLMs offer APIs that
>>> allow journalists to interact with the m
Zang! I had not made that connection.
Hmmh. What do I think? I seem to have viewed uninterpreted models much as I
view a hammer or a shovel; as a tool in the world for doing a certain job (in
this case, a job of perceiving the world in valid ways), neither here nor there
w.r.t. questions of
Eric writes:
“Bears on how many things make up the machinery of nihilism, extending well
beyond relations I recognized as part of an integration, though mentioning many
things I rail against in daily life.”
The willingness of physicists to use uninterpreted models, e.g., quantum
mechanics,
23 2:38 PM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Language Model Understanding
Thanks for passing this along, Steve. I wish, however, the authors
of this short piece would have included a definition of, in their
usage, "Large Language Models"
e. A small language model might be suitable for understanding the
> geometries of chemicals, say.
>
>
>
> *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Tom Johnson
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 7, 2023 2:38 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam@redfis
, October 7, 2023 2:38 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Language Model Understanding
Thanks for passing this along, Steve. I wish, however, the authors of this
short piece would have included a definition of, in their usage, "Large
Language M
Thanks for passing this along, Steve. I wish, however, the authors of this
short piece would have included a definition of, in their usage, "Large
Language Models" and "Small Language Models." Perhaps I can find those in
the larger paper.
Tom
On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 12:34 PM Steve Smith wrote:
This popular-press article came through my Google News feed recently
which I thought might be useful to the Journalists/English-Majors on the
list to help understand how LLMs work, etc. When I read it in detail
(forwarded from my TS (TinyScreenPhone) on my LS (Large Screen Laptop))
I found
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