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How much of it has to be AI for it to count as AI music? If a human wrote all the lyrics, does it fall somewhere along the “AI music spectrum”, as it were? And where does the cutoff lie?

Asking for a friend


Redirect comets? Technically demonstrated technology? What?

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/dart/

As in the mission has been flown and an asteroid deflection has been achieved.


> Michael Tipton described this sequence in 1989, and it has not really changed since

How exactly could the human body’s response to cold water shock change since 1989?

> This is how strong pool swimmers drown ten meters from a boat.

They drown 10 meters from the boat when they first hit the cold water? Did they jump 10 meters?


1. Our understanding of the underlying mechanisms may change over time.

2. They don't die instantly after hitting the water.


> How exactly could the human body’s response to cold water shock change since 1989?

microplastics


As you noted briefly, a big drawback is not getting to take advantage of the cache. Seems like a pretty big drawback.

Yes, it will destroy most of the caching potential. On the other hand, the average context window needed to achieve the same type of task may be much smaller. This might make up for it. And with a better harness, fewer rounds may be needed. Plus, hopefully costs will go down. There is a lot of hope in this comment though.

I wonder how the plumbing worked for the bathroom in his private office at the top of the tower.

I also wonder how practical it was to climb there, I went to the eiffel tower several times and climbing stairs is an exercice by itself ,especially spiral ones

If you’re not an AI yourself it’s weird how you’re so offended by this stuff.


An AI wouldn't get offended. It would sycophantically agree.


Apparently Bonobos regularly have sexual relations with infants.


How is conceptualizing what the model is doing as having a conversation any different from any other abstraction? “No, the browser isn’t downloading a file. The electrons in the silicon are actually…”


There are people with a philosophical objection to using everyday words to describe LLM interactions for various reasons, but commonly because they're worried stupid people will confuse the LLM for a person. Which, I suppose stupid people will do that, but I'm not inventing a parallel language or putting a * next to each thing which means "this, but with an LLM instead of a person"


That is an interesting way of looking at that, thanks for the perspective!

Like, the words fit… why create a second parallel language for describing LLM behavior.

Somebody else said it… the whole “it’s a stochastic parrot” thing is sooooo cliche and boring at this point. It’s like, duh… what is your point?


One is an abstraction, another is a fantasy.


This kind of thinking denies the humans in question any agency over their own lives. You’re essentially asking for a word government and a planned economy. Does it suck that more resources aren’t funneled into cancer research and other noble pursuits? Yes. But planned economies haven’t cured cancer, and are not likely to, despite denying their people the agency to live their lives as they choose.


I don’t think you have to go from here to planned economy straight away. There are capital gains taxes between the current level and 100% which might produce better outcomes.


People go into finance or adtech not because they have some innate drive towards making markets liquid, they go there mostly because it's more money -> higher quality of life. Moving more money into socially meaningful and beneficial fields (which is still far from a planned economy as the sibling comment noted) is not denying anyone agency.


A market economy is just as good if not better at denying "the agency to live their lives as they choose". Do you think the bum on the street or the poor family working paycheck to paycheck have more agency than someone with a decent job at a state owned enterprise and a social safety net? It's absurd.


I’m literally dead


My condolences.


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