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Comment Re:Red did better than Blue under covid (Score 1) 174

To me the initial reaction in a situation like covid should be an overreaction since we couldn't determine the appropriate reaction at that point. It's really easy to forget just how little information we had. It had overwhelmed medical facilities and nobody had any real information yet about the spread to determine what was safe and what wasn't.

Comment Enough tape to go around the earth would hold: (Score 1) 34

The article says 100 m of tape = 36 PB.
Earth circumference ~ 40,075,000 m.

Scale it up:
Per meter: 36 PB / 100 m = 0.36 PB/m (= 360 TB/m).

All the way around Earth:
0.36 PB/m x 40,075,000 m = 14,427,000 PB.

That's:
14,427 EB (decimal) = 14.4 ZB (decimal, 1 ZB = 1,000 EB)
13.8 ZB (binary-ish comparison using 1024s)
Songs at 10 MB each (as in the article):

36 PB/100 m -> 3.6 billion songs/100 m -> 36 million songs per meter
40,075,000 m -> 1.44 quadrillion songs.

Comment Re:So ChatGPT is a magnificent cut-and-paste machi (Score 1) 73

In future iterations the LLM should be able recognize that it needs help to optimize it's chess play and deploy/use the best chess playing software when facing a master. Assuming it has the goal of defeating the opponent and has "reasoning" and agentic abilities it is not much of a jump for it to pull it off.

Comment Missing AI users that know how to prompt. (Score 1) 58

I have done a bunch of songwriting with AI and early on I noticed a tendency for it to use the words: neon, echoes, glow, and several others in almost every song. I added instructions to avoid those patterns to my chats and it no longer produced those patterns. In that context it might make sense to assume that some of these papers used AI that was instructed to avoid obvious AI patterns and therefore went undetected.

Comment Generalist (Score 4, Informative) 220

People need to have some understanding of programming in order to manage the AI that writes the actual code. The AI is quite good at coding but it is very difficult to prompt/implement/troubleshoot without knowing what's going on. In the small projects I've done I've had to step in to resolve several issues that got the ai stuck in a repeating circle of troubleshooting. It's kind of like employing a super-talented programmer who has the memory of a goldfish and likes to sneak mistakes and previously resolved problems into the code.

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