Not unlike many people. https://blog.thelinguist.com/p...

AI has learned the language from those code examples and repositories. What it does with the language is often (not always, mind you) original.

LLMs have learned English (and other languages) from vast amounts of written text. It is easy to use LLMs to create work that is original (say, prompt it to create a poem in Shakespearean style about AI utilizing tennis racket to paint a house - or whatever). Similarly with software development, AI has learned the syntax and coding styles for different programming languages, and utilizes that information to create original code.

Stop right there, this basic premise is false. AI has learned the language from those code examples and repositories. What it does with the language is often (not always, mind you) original.

LLMs have learned english (and other languages) syntax from examples, it is easy to use them to create work that is original (say, prompt it to create a poem in Shakespearean style about AI utilizing tennis racket to paint a house - or whatever). Similarly, AI has learned the syntax and coding styles for different PROGRAMMING languages, and can utilize that information to create original code. The syntax of the programming language is not copyrighted.

I don't think it will affect the QUALITY of the ads themselves. It just makes the ad space easier to sell for Facebook and cheaper for marketing people to target the group that they want to part with their money.

There are a lot of scientific papers written about the research done by these companies. See e.g. here: https://openai.com/research/in...

In many markets (not just neighborhoods), there is nowadays so much wind power on a windy day, electricity IS free. That's why they are coming up with ideas, how to use that cheap energy.

The solution presented in TFA converts Hydrogen to Methanol and that is converted to gasoline. It is wiser to build the infrastructure to use that hydrogen directly. In fact, they already are doing exactly that, here in Finland at least: https://gasgrid.fi/en/developm... And not just in Finland, but extending to Baltics and other Nordic countries as well.

Exactly. And in the case presented in TFS, the system created python programs to solve problems. And it would run those programs to see, which ones worked. And used this information to improve itself.

If you set aside your hate for anything LLM-related, could you please explain, why this amplifies GIGO? I understood there is a clear reward-function, which should steer it towards the working solution.

In a not so dissimilar way, AlphaGo played against itself millions of games, learning along the way the winning strategies, eventually beating humans. It it worked for those kind of neural networks, why wouldn't it work with LLMs?

There have been stories in the Finnish media that even exchange students have been forced to participate in that act. Weird.

Yes, but they still are starting from the hypothesis that there IS dark energy and it has been accerating expansion. From TFA: "This adjustment showed that not only had dark energy changed over time...". I.e. they are trying to FIX dark energy calculations with adjustments.

Read my original post. In very similar way, the science tried to fix geocentric model with epicycles end deferents, resulting in REALLY odd orbits. And somehow those still seemed to fit observations. It required a more radical shift to heliocentric model to "beautify" the physics again back to simple formulas, not needing layers of adjustments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Actually, no, they are not. Meaning that dark energy is now mainstream physics, and if you dare to think otherwise, you are sidelined - very difficult to get funding for studies, or publications in peer reviewed journals. Hence, the only ones trying to prove otherwise are considered crackpots.

Again, epicycles.... Instead of trying to create a mathematical model for dark energy, one can explain the supernova observations themselves with e.g. variable light speed theory (i.e. in the past light travelled slower/faster). Cannot be easily tested or proven, but throwing away the assumption that light speed is constant over time, it is easy to come up with theories, in which dark energy is not needed.

But regarding light speed, we have now dug ourselvers into a hole by defining even time itself (one second) using c (time it takes for light to travel 299792458 meters). So, from now on, by definition, light speed IS FORCED to be constant (if the speed actually changes, it is the time (one second) that is flowing faster/slower.

Dark energy, to my understanding, is the fruit of supernova observations, which seems to show expanding universe, which would then require dark energy. It is deferents and epicycles once again - more and more complex mathematical models needed to explain a false hypothesis, as new observations surface.

I hope alternative models of explaining the supernova measurements would get more attention, so that some day we could admit that this geocentric..., sorry, this dark energy model was wrong after all.

It's not about costs. It's about saving the frigging planet. A concept that may be too hard to grasp for many of your kind.

Theoretical scenario, no? Going that route, the attacker can fill the whole damn card slot with epoxy, and no card, be it magnetic stripe or chip, can be inserted at all.

WTF... Here (Finland), I've been living my adult life for more than 30 years now. And I have NEVER written a check in my life. Electronic banking (direct deposit you call it there?) since last millennia now. And as for the taxes, the same thing. Actually local "IRS" is quite advanced, for years, there has been no need to "file" anything tax related. All information has already been gathered, I'll just get a copy of the calculation that I can verify on their website. Postal money order? WTF again...