I don't think the use of the word 'idiot' was great by itself, it should have been 'arrogant idiot'
"This is a classic case of Scientism (The opinion that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality.)"
He more or less claims that consciousness is outside the realm of human understanding, but also then mentions the millennia of study by scholars about consciousness has found the real truth about consciousness.
Makes me think of the digital speed limit signs that start to flash red and blue when you hit 10 mph over the limit. Like of course every 16 year old kid ever is trying to make them flash red and blue and also me at 32.
In the UK, we have signs that show a happy face when you're under the limit and an angry face when you're over. It's hard to resist the temptation to go a little over to make it frown.
In Ireland, they used to show the actual value in flashing red when speeding, but getting the "highest score" became a goal amongst the youth, so now they just say "TOO FAST" when more than 10km/h over the limit.
When I was at TomTom, they ran a contest for employees to come up with fun ways to gamify their internet-connected GPS Personal Navigation Devices.
Some wise guy came up with the brilliant idea of maintaining a real-time "Top 10 Speeders" leaderboard for every single road on the entire map. Kinda like Foursquare for speeding on local roads. No matter where you were driving in the world, you could instantly see the top ten speeds of other TomTom users who drove down that same stretch of road, and put the pedal to the metal to claim or defend your own spot on the leaderboard!
That one went over like a lead balloon with the legal department.
The only thing worse would be a chat app for texting while driving above the speed limit with other Leaderboard members along the same stretch of road.
They also didn't appreciate my proposal for TomTomagotchi: a simulated personality on your PND that relentlessly begs you to drive it all around town to various interesting places it wants to visit, to improve its mood and satisfy its cravings. (Kind of like having virtual kids!) I'm sure there's a revenue model having drive through Burger Kings and car washes pay for placements.
We can't, indeed, but if the past is any prediction -- it will have a few good iterations, better features each time, smaller models, but it will quiet down after a few iterations.
Unless Open Ai found some completely novel way of training GPT to enable the exponential growth in training data required up until now.
Recently started Vivaldi and it's pretty nice! I switched because it's the only decent browser that I can remove the address bar and use it only with a hot key. So far it seems fast enough and haven't run into bugs.
It does have a ton of features that I'll never use that I wish were extensions or something
Top bar stays hidden, but url bar / search bar appear when I press ctrl+l / ctrl+k. Likely need to tweak css to your likings, and you need to set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in about:config to enable userChrome.css (you can find various guides on that if needed)
Just about human intelligence in general. I used to think replacing my software job was a long ways off because it is fairly intellectually challenging but chatgpt has really changed my opinion on that.
Its funny how many people will immediately poke holes in it for software development, but two years ago I could not imagine an AI could write code like chatgpt is doing now.
Free of defects is the least of the problems. Doing what a customer wants is the major one. One could argue that customers will be able to write their code alone but they'll always have something else to do and will pay somebody to do it, exactly as for all the other parts of their business. On the other side maybe one wouldn't have to know one of the current programming languages, much like we don't have to know machine code nowadays. English and a good dose of perseverance could be enough.
Sounds similar to the arguments against self-driving: "Self-driving itself isn't the challenge. It is self-driving better than humans". AFAIK this is already possible at least under certain conditions or at certain roads.
I didn't poke any holes into it. I just entered my code and asked it to do some work for me and it simply failed. The problem was a simple 50 line function I copy pasted from stackoverflow. I asked it to do something really easy.
The AI can output a lot of text but can you input a 100000 line code base into it? No you can't. You can't even input 50 lines of code that is already in the data set!
And by failure I mean somethin akin to a blue screen and not that the output was wrong, there was no output!
I wonder though could you have it create a list of comments about the function. then use the comments to generate smaller functions and then generate test data for those functions then build unit test for those functions then have it build something to solve the original problem with the smaller functions along with test data.
You don't even have to do that last step and you'll be doing more debugging than is necessary to do that. Just do the elephant carpaccio yourself then feed it the slices and glue the shit it excretes out together and boom you have MVP.
Yeah I now routinely ask it for boilerplate to get things done way faster and it's REALLY good at flawlessly translating from one programming language to another. It'll be a shame when it goes behind a paywall.
On that thought, does anyone even still use Copilot?
