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ADMIN UPDATE - Tank Comm Renamings in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What if mods simply remove the constant posting about the depiction of women's bodies in video games? Bad content is the problem, not the name of the comm it's posted in.

LLMs and generative AI are becoming genuinely problematic in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

What difference does it make? Does Bob from accounting have a soul? I can't answer that either.

!!!VOTE DELAYED!!! in c/[email protected]
LLMs and generative AI are becoming genuinely problematic in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why does eveyone head to the trenches about consciousness this or that? Why even try to emulate the brain when transformers produce the results they do? All these systems need to do is convincingly approximate human behavior well enough and they can automate most professional jobs out there, and in doing so upend society as we know it. These systems don't need a soul to scab for labor.

Bulletins and News Discussion from November 11th to November 17th, 2024 - Chapo? Like, the President-elect of Mozambique? - COTW: Mozambique in c/[email protected]
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Chinese researchers develop AI model for military use on back of Meta's Llama (www.reuters.com)
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They fine-tuned a Llama 13B LLM with military specific data, and claim it works as well as GPT-4 for those tasks.

Not sure why they wouldn't use a more capable model like 405B though.

Something about this smells to me. Maybe a way to stimulate defense spending around AI?

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Over 25% of Google's code is written by AI (fortune.com)
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MIT researchers develop a training technique that pools diverse data to teach robots new skills (news.mit.edu)
 

...versatile technique that combines a huge amount of heterogeneous data from many of sources into one system that can teach any robot a wide range of tasks

This method could be faster and less expensive than traditional techniques because it requires far fewer task-specific data. In addition, it outperformed training from scratch by more than 20 percent in simulation and real-world experiments.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.20537

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Shanghai Kepler Robot Co. announces new humanoid robot (video in link) (www.gotokepler.com)
 

With the stated goal of "liberating people from repetitive labor and high-risk industries, and improving productivity levels and work efficiency"

Hopefully they can pull it off cheaply while Tesla's Optimus remains vaporware (or whatever the real world equivalent of vaporware is).