i saw this story up on the main /. feed (rather than here in the firehose) but now i don't.
i feel like this happens every now and then.
what mechanism is at play ?

hugo aside, i just read the earthsea graphic novel and have been planning to write the author a thank-you letter. it's super well-done. the attention to detail and the pacing and the choices of what to include and what not are done with real skill and care. her son was involved in the process. and the artistry is superb. it's been a while since i spent minutes looking at a page that's just a seascape.

^----- THIS
is the main take-away here.

it seems to me that the little blurb on most title pages like "cannot be reproduced by any means electronic or otherwise" would cover ai training, but it sounds like this ruling found otherwise.

well right, your closing sentence is the clincher : we're using too much plastic.

labeling that suggests it gets recycled when in fact it doesn't is sustainability theater.

wups, /. filtered out my angle-brackets.
should read: ... from "99% sure it's (the right thing)" to "99% sure it's (something not even close to the right thing)" ...

the summary and article here present a delightfully uncluttered surface, but for folks wanting more detail there's a possibly related 2019 paper which shows a variety of image classifiers switching their output from "99% sure it's " to "99% sure it's ", due to literally a single altered pixel in the input. i doubt it's exactly the same thing as whatever this paper turns out to be about but it gives a feel for the problem space.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.088...

> .. But it can't assess authorial intent.

idk if you're using the same popular code-writing tool that i am, but it's way better than human programmers at documenting the whys in addition to the whats and hows. additionally it's a snap to have it curate the architectural and design decisions currently being introduced. the oral record going forward is going to be --much-- more robust than in the past. as far as assessing the authorial intents of existing code, it's pretty good at that too.

i don't love this situation, and i mourn the craft i've spent several decades honing, but it credit where it's due.

i think you're reading a regurgitation viewpoint into what i'm saying. i put 'think' in quotes because i'm still wary of describing them as thinking, but yeah i totally agree they're way beyond regurgitation at this point. i mean, huge portions of human reasoning are language-based. the entire field of formal mathematics is founded on symbol manipulation, for example. so it makes sense that being good at working with language can result in reasoning.

totally,
but where does that reasoning ability come from ?
i'm assuming it comes from the vast body of human discussion about coding.

yeah maybe.

i wonder how much language-independent discussion of software design is out there. can an AI only "think" in a specific language like python or whatever ? i'm assuming the bulk of the code intelligence is coming from scraping SO and all the coding blogs out there, which in my experience are almost always using the context of a specific language.

otoh, maybe that doesn't matter. it can assume python for "thinking" about design and then drop down to the ai-direct language for implementation.

and over time if the bots share their experiences then a corpus of training material will become available. i imagine those discussions, the bots writing their own coding blog posts, will be fiercely guarded by the various corporations producing coding models.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/...

120 years ago..

that sounds similar to the traditional steady-state model. personally i would love for lambdaCDM to lose out to steady-state, but i think there is some inconvenient evidence against it.

previously you mocked me by implying that the bot-forum activity would start once the game started, duh. but now the game is nearly over and there are still only 45 total posts, and you seem to be suggesting that the activity on this thread is somehow relevant. got it. i'm done replying to you.

well, it's now halftime and there are eleven additional posts.

currently there is a grand total of 30 posts.
not sure how this is news-worthy.