The biggest mistake of Satya Nadella’s career was letting OpenAI make consumer products. Now instead of Microsoft’s AI lab it’s a competitor.
@pmddomingos
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Expert Biases Reinforce Our Own Confirmation Bias
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Nothing reinforces your biases like seeing the experts’.
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Turing Completeness Enables Data Center Repurposing Across Industries
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Turing completeness is of great economic importance. Thanks to it the data centers built for crypto and VR can be repurposed for AI, and for who knows what else if the AI boom turns to bust.
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Deep Learning Advice Critique Local Optimum Problem
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No. 1 is terrible advice, and well illustrates what’s wrong with a lot of the deep learning crowd. It practically guarantees you’ll wind up stuck in a local optimum.
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Skilled Immigration: America’s Competitive Edge Against China
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Skilled immigration is one of America’s greatest advantages vs. China. Let’s maximize it.
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Do LLMs Really Reason or Just Simulate Reasoning?
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Your poster says that LLM reasoning is fake by definition.
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Energy Efficiency: Bread versus Dynamite Metaphor Explained
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There’s more energy in a loaf of bread than in a stick of dynamite. It just takes longer to release.
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AI is more than just language models
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AI is a toolkit, but lately the hammer has been getting all the attention. So people say AI can’t cut, screw or drill.
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Self-driving cars eliminate need for manual vehicle operation
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Kids these days don’t know how good they have it. When I was young you had to drive your car.
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Decades of RL Failure to Learn Macros Continues
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Also, RL folks have been trying to learn macros (“options”, as Rich Sutton calls them) and failing for decades. But any day now . . .