My $250k DGX station is being replaced for a second time after a GPU failed (first time was the cooling system). I now see that Nvidia has completely exited the form factor.
@id_aa_carmack
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Symbolic Reasoning as a Powerful Tool Beyond AGI
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Precise symbolic reasoning is different from what brains and modern AIs do, but powerful in its own right. Even if it isn’t the path to AGI, it may wind up being a power tool for all connection isn’t beings.
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ChatGPT Impresses with Code Understanding but Makes Logic Error
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That thread is what made me go attempt to do some of my work today with ChatGPT — optimizing a chunk of logic was on my todo list, so I asked ChatGPT. I was really impressed by how it understood the code, but then it made the logic error.
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Commitment to AGI Development at Keen Technologies
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issues, so I knew it would be extra frustrating to keep pushing my viewpoint internally. I am all in on building AGI at Keen Technologies now.
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John Carmack Resigns from Meta, Internal Post Leaked
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I resigned from Meta, and my internal post got leaked to the press, resulting in some fragmented quotes. Here is the full thing:
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Models Learning from Observed Data: Benefits and Ethical Considerations
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Well, that is objectively not what the models do, so they are just wrong. The question of the net social benefits of automating skilled craft is open for discussion. Generally, I think “Learn from all that you see” is virtuous behavior, and I would have a hard time condemning it.
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Google Cloud GPU Allocation Issues: Company Struggles to Purchase Resources
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A while ago, I had a ridiculous time trying to get a bunch of GPUs on Google Cloud. Complaining on Twitter got it resolved for me then, but we just went through it again for the Keen corporate account. Something is wrong when it is so hard to get a company to take your money.
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Max-Pooling as Spatial ReLU: A Reframing of Network Operations
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I started out with an instinctive dislike of max-pooling in ML networks, favoring avg-pooling based on image filtering concepts. I only later realized that it isn’t really doing image processing, but rather acting as a “spatial ReLU”.