Reading books in the elevator got me a promotion from working in the call center -> becoming an analyst. Changed my life trajectory. The VP of Finance saw the books I was reading, we had a brief convo and then he offered me a job the next week.
Second most interesting one is I bought $180 worth of option calls on Heinz Ketchup, and then they randomly got bought out by Warren Buffett. I think it was a total of $28k in profits at a time when I was making maybe 30-40k/year
Is super-intellignence smarter than all humans? I think where we stand now, LLMs are already smarter than the average human while lagging behind experts w/ specialized knowledge, no?
Source: https://trackingai.org/IQ
Do you have an example of human intelligence that doesn’t rely on pattern recognition through previous experience?
At what point do you think that your opinion on AI trumps the papers and studies of researchers in those fields?
Respectfully, none of the aforementioned examples are simple, or else humans wouldn’t have needed to leverage AI to make such substantial progress in less than 2 years.
I’ve been using AI to troubleshoot/learn after switching from Windows -> Linux 1.5 years ago. It has given me very poor advice occasionally, but it has taught me a lot more valuable info. This is not dissimilar to my experience following tutorials on the internet…
I honestly doubt I would ever pay for this shit.
I understand your perspective. Personally, I think that there’s a chicken/egg situation where free AI versions are a subpar representation that makes skeptics view AI as a whole as over-hyped. OTOH, the people who use the better models experience the benefits first hand, but are seen as AI zealots that are having the wool pulled over there eyes.
Any thoughts on the paragraph following your excerpt:
The most persuasive way you can demonstrate the reality of AI, though, is to describe how it is already being used today. Not in speculative sci-fi scenarios, but in everyday offices and laboratories and schoolrooms. And not in the ways that you already know — cheating on homework, drawing bad art, polluting the web — but in ones that feel surprising and new.
With that in mind, here are some things that AI has done in 2024.
- Cut customer losses from scams in half through proactive detection, according to the Bank of Australia.
- Preserved some of the 200 endangered Indigenous languages spoken in North America.
- Accelerated drug discovery, offering the possibility of breakthrough protections against antibiotic resistance.
- Detected the presence of tuberculosis by listening to a patient’s voice.
- Reproduced an ALS patient’s lost voice.
- Enabled persecuted Venezuelan journalists to resume delivering the news via digital avatars.
- Pieced together fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh, one of the world’s oldest texts.
- Caused hundreds of thousands of people to develop intimate relationships with chatbots.
- Created engaging and surprisingly natural-sounding podcasts out of PDFs.
- Created poetry that participants in a study say they preferred to human-written poetry in a blind test. (This may be because people prefer bad art to good art, but still.)
I’m on the same plan.
Less paper relative to an in-person vote
There is an inherent catch-22 in that the people who believe AI a fluke will rarely have the time/interest in realizing the vast improvements since the initial launch 2-3 years ago.
I am as frugal as they come, yet I shell out money for the paid version and have a reference point on its helpfulness that is grounded in experience. It is almost impossible trying to create a reference point to those that have no (recent) experience and refuse to get any.
It’s human nature/Dunning-Kreuger so I can’t be too frustrated I suppose.
Troublehsooting technology.
I’ve been using Linux as my daily driver for a year and a half and my learning is going a lot quicker thanks to AI. It’s so much easier to ask a question and get an answer instead of searching through stack overflow for 30 minutes.
That isn’t to say that the LLM never gives terrible advice. In fact, two weeks ago, I was digging through my logs for a potential intruder (false alarm) and the LLM gave me instructions that ended up deleting journal logs completely.
The good far outweighs the bad for sure tho.
The Linux community specifically has an anti-AI tilt that is embarrassing at times. LLMs are amazing, and much like random strangers on the internet, you don’t blindly trust/follow everything they say, and you’ll be just fine.
The best way I think of AI is that it’s going through a bubble not unlike the early days of the internet. There was a lot of overvalued companies and scams, but it still ushered in a new era.
Another analogy that comes to mind is how people didn’t trust wikipedia 20 years ago because anyone could edit it, and now it is one of the most trusted sources for information out there. AI will never be as ‘dumb’ as it is today, which is ironic because a lot of the perspective I see on AI was formed around free models from 2023.
koreader, tracker control
Also, they’re new but opentimelimit and unlockmaster for productivity
Interesting read, thanks for sharing.
Reminds me of the time that the FBI created ‘secure’ phones for illicit criminal activities
There’s a great Search Engine episode on it https://player.fm/series/search-engine-3326982/whats-the-best-phone-to-do-crimes-on
It was the first (only?) app where I was baffled at the features compared to the price. It’s a joy to use. If you self-host music, it beats the competition by miles
I made the jump last year. There will be ups and downs but I don’t plan on using another OS on my computers ever.
Just want to reiterate that the IRS get their marching orders from the party in charge which is why they targeted rich people under Biden: The IRS has recovered $1.3 billion from rich American tax dodgers since the fall of 2023 — relieving a painful burden from ‘ordinary citizens’
I agree 100%. Liberals retweeting how Elon is losing money is actually making him money
There’s an irony seeing Redditors creating threads and complaining about it as if they did anything during the API-gate saga
The author from the article did. It’s a bit of a stretch as are the last 2-3 pieces of the list 🤷🏾♂️. The first few are still pretty big.