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I keep forgetting that that’s an option

The problem with hearing when a note isn’t right is that by the time you hear it you’ve already played it…

As someone who could never get used to just kinda eyeballing where a note is supposed to be, I strongly disagree about the trombone.

I mean, it would probably be a good opportunity for a handful of really rich people to further their control and ownership globally…so as long as our billionaire overlords value human life over their own personal power we should be good.

This would explain the other article I saw about a US-Clooney $20 billion arms deal.

And if you try long enough, maybe you can identify someone else’s idea to steal and profit from!

No clue? Somewhere between a few years (assuming some unexpected breakthrough) or many decades? The consensus from experts (of which I am not) seems to be somewhere in the 2030s/40s for AGI. I’m guessing accuracy probably will be more on a topic by topic basis, LLMs might never even get there, or only related to things they’ve been heavily trained on. If predictive text doesn’t do it then I would be betting on whatever Yann LeCun is working on.

Perhaps there is some line between assuming infinite growth and declaring that this technology that is not quite good enough right now will therefore never be good enough?

Blindly assuming no further technological advancements seems equally as foolish to me as assuming perpetual exponential growth. Ironically, our ability to extrapolate from limited information is a huge part of human intelligence that AI hasn’t solved yet.

GPT-2 came out a little more than 5 years ago, it answered 0% of questions accurately and couldn’t string a sentence together.

GPT-3 came out a little less than 4 years ago and was kind of a neat party trick, but I’m pretty sure answered ~0% of programming questions correctly.

GPT-4 came out a little less than 2 years ago and can answer 48% of programming questions accurately.

I’m not talking about mortality, or creativity, or good/bad for humanity, but if you don’t see a trajectory here, I don’t know what to tell you.

I’ve always felt Green is Science, Blue is Math, Red is English

This is very much the type of case that settles out of court for an undisclosed amount of money.

It’s an important lesson for this generation of graduates: robots aren’t ready to take your jobs…but we’re pushing it through anyway.

And now it’s time to go back out.

I have to get all of my (non money earning) work in the morning before even opening my phone. As soon as the social media gets going my motivation to do anything creative and engaging drops.

I’ve tried focusing on creative/artistic communities to try and inspire myself…but it just doesn’t work. I think the passive intake of media ends up scratches the same itch in a much less fulfilling way.

The planet will be fine. Completely inhospitable for human life, sure, but the planet itself will manage.

Probably somewhere around the time they realized referring to themselves as “actual women” was not a particularly inclusive, or kind, look.

I only take on gross work, as per rhyming conventions gross work is your gross worth.

Hey I found this cool post from that guy you’re quoting.

This is just the plot of the Black Mirror episode Hang the DJ.