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Established Culture, work & education Signal 18d ago

Epdf.pub artificial intelligence modern approach

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James MacGlashan

“Or you can go to the 1995 first edition of the Russell Norvig AI textbook, which includes a whole part dedicated to machine learning including decision trees, information theory, neural nets, RL, etc. www.mbit.edu.in/wp-content/u...”

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James MacGlashan: There is a mountain of things you can rightly criticize modern AI industry units of. This is not one of them and it is a bizarre thing to latch onto.
James MacGlashan: Or you can go to the 1995 first edition of the Russell Norvig AI textbook, which includes a whole part dedicated to machine learning including decision trees, information theory, neural nets, RL, e…
James MacGlashan: If you doubt it, you can read the wikipedia page where this is literally stated in multiple places in multiple ways. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine...
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Established AI field signal Signal 9d ago

Michael Graziano: Is Conscious AI Safer Than The Alternative?

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James MacGlashan

“And it seems he has commented, with a similar take as mine. Starting at 20mins, he says LLMs have useful pieces, but lack the sophisticated models of self that people have. And if it can be said to have anything, "they don't have anything like human conscio…”

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Singularity's Bounty e/cc: The only actual argument against it I've seen is the mimicry argument, but I reject that because it's based on 1980s symbolic processing reasoning and never updated for LLM capabilities. All the re…
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: Next up: valence
James MacGlashan: I think its clear we shouldn't describe the video generator as having those emotions, it's just displaying them. But it's the same situations for LLMs because they use the same class of machinery. …
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7 experts · 16 posts · 18d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Christopher Mims Taylor W. Killian James MacGlashan rev. howard arson austin Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Multiple readings Opportunity & adoption · 2 Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: 6. This is more niche but LLMs are very, very good at converting unstructured details of an optimization problem into an exact formal model that can then be used 7. LLMs can create initial versions…
Eugene Vinitsky: 4. Sometimes there's a concept or tool that I know must exist but I can only describe it vaguely. LLMs can frequently name it, which I can then go and verify 5. I use LLMs to fill out many forms be…
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2 experts · 58 posts · 8d ago
James MacGlashan Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: What if I said "Will's argument has no flaws"? Would you accept that at face value? I'm not claiming anything, I'm saying there's an absence of something, and absence is not a claim Will's argument…
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: Unfortunately, we can't always make an affirmative claim. We can't prove a negative but sometimes we have to do our best to demonstrate it Like "My code has no bugs" is always going to be a negativ…
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3 experts · 9 posts · 15d ago
Ben Recht James MacGlashan Colin
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: I’m telling you guys it’s a really good idea. The biggest risk is a bigger lab just stealing it and squishing you like a bug but if you can ship fast enough and hopefully maintain some secret sauce…
Colin: A magic 8 ball that works better than chance at many things is endlessly useful.
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2 experts · 4 posts · 5d ago
Mark Riedl James MacGlashan
Mark Riedl: Half the reason I am learning to play guitar is because I want to do things like this. The other half is because I find using AI to make music so unsatisfying.
James MacGlashan: I started learning piano only a few years ago. I'm pretty bad but that's okay. Beyond enjoying the process, my goal is to be mediocre by the time I retire and so I can eventually do fun things with…
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2 experts · 2 posts · 16d ago
Ethan Mollick James MacGlashan
Ethan Mollick: Anyhow, I think we are now done with the last round of skeptical responses to AI after Navier-Stokes. Yes, AI is now capable of producing novel proofs to hard problems that have eluded us The next …
James MacGlashan: I mean, the RL is important, but it would be silly to to think we just won't extend the spaces its used. Less easily verified domains will make that harder to do, but by no means insurmountable.
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