nymnympseudonym

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[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I am not a linguist but the deafening silence from Chomsky and his defenders really does demand being called out.

Syntactical models of language have been completely crushed by statistics-at-scale via neural nets. But linguists have not rejected the broken model.

The same thing happened with protein folding -- researchers who spent the last 25 years building complex quantum mechanical/electrostatic models of protein structure suddenly saw AlphaFold completely crush prior methods. The difference is, bioinformatics researchers have already done a complete about-face and are taking the new AI tools and running with them.

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

believing that a large language model has any kind of awareness or actual intelligence is absurd

I (as a person who works professionally in the area and tries to keep up with the current academic publications) happen to agree with you. But my credences are somewhat reduced after considering the points Hinton raises.

I think it is worth considering that there are a handful of academically active models of consciousness; some well-respected ones like the CTM are not at all inconsistent with Hinton's statements

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

IMO PeerTube would be much larger but grifter sites like Rumble and Odyssee/LBRY are sucking a lot of the wind from the YT-alternative ecosystem

Long term IMO PeerTube is the only sensible architecture. federated.

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (11 children)
[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

finally I can play Solitaire on my HPUX

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Seems like popping open WSL in a Windows VM running inside a Linux host

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I want her on my team because everyone's productivity will go thru the roof. She's a master craftsman of programming.