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> Me: What is your knowledge cut off date?

> ChatGPT: My knowledge cutoff is *June 2024*. I can also use live browsing to fetch more recent information when needed.

It is unsurprising that it thinks next year would be 2025, given that this token generator lives in June 2024.


> it thinks

This is your mistake right here. It doesn't think. It's a text generator. It can no more think about what year it is than Swiftkey on your phone "thinks" what year it is when you type

NEXT YEAR WILL BE

and press the middle button.


I'm as bearish as anyone on the current AI hype, but this particular ship has sailed. Research is revealing these humongous neural networks of weights for next token prediction to exhibit underlying structures that seem to map in some way to a form of knowledge about the world that is, however imperfectly, extracted from all the text they're trained on.

Arguing that this is meaningfully different from what happens in our own brains is not something I would personally be comfortable with.


> Research is revealing these humongous neural networks of weights for next token prediction to exhibit underlying structures that seem to map in some way to a form of knowledge about the world that is

[[citation needed]]

I am sorry but I need exceptionally strong proof of that statement. I think it is totally untrue.


hard to know with so few data points


"insufficient data for meaningful answer", one might say.


>hard to know with so few data points

i've yelled at the interns several times but none have been able to set up a haldane soup focus group yet


and a south park episode for ones from the future :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobacks


A good sabot system could turn many other meals effectively into burritos.


Might have to be more specific than Android and Windows. Tried them on my devices (S24, windows 11) and they're practically instantaneous.


This does sound like it could be solved with better installDiskSelectors[0]. Talos has done a fair bit of work in improving this and UserVolumeConfigs in the last couple of 1.x revisions.

Alternatively, network booting in some fashion is an option. [1]

[0] https://www.talos.dev/v1.11/reference/configuration/v1alpha1...

[1] https://www.talos.dev/v1.11/talos-guides/install/bare-metal-...


I think you're on the surface correct. But below the surface it can't be denied that in most of the western nations there is an increasing far right party on the knife edge of gaining power in each (Afd, RN, Reform UK, etc). We can hope that they remain out of power, but its hard to say that we won't see a bunch of Trumpist policy repeated in any one of those nations if they do take power.


The problem as I see it, is that the US was a frog in a boiling pot for ages before this. All trump did was drain the water.

The UK is comparable. In that its largely been white anted by Brexit. But you still would have quite a job introducing poms to daily gun violence statistics.

Are there any other modern western nations where you get locked up for sharing memes about the government at a border crossing?

UK again I guess, did destroy its trade relationships with the whole planet and sent itself back to the blitz without a german bomber in sight.

But most of the rest of the world seem stable in comparison.


I've been working with python professionally for just over a year now and the main difference from having come from a .net background seems to be that tests are far easier to write and more prevalent in our codebase. I'm sure some of that is cultural, but "runtime" errors are quickly found by any reasonable test suite.

That said, it always saddens me that ML (as in oCaml and F#) don't get more love. They basically can hit all the same bases with ease of readability, multi paradigm, module first programming that python can but just never got the same love.



The mind boggles at how many little bits of information like this keep our world running smoothly...


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