sisyphean

This is a thought-provoking article, thank you for sharing it. One paragraph that particularly stood out to me discusses the limitations of AI in dealing with rare events:

The ability to imagine different scenarios could also help to overcome some of the limitations of existing AI, such as the difficulty of reacting to rare events. By definition, Bengio says, rare events show up only sparsely, if at all, in the data that a system is trained on, so the AI can’t learn about them. A person driving a car can imagine an occurrence they’ve never seen, such as a small plane landing on the road, and use their understanding of how things work to devise potential strategies to deal with that specific eventuality. A self-driving car without the capability for causal reasoning, however, could at best default to a generic response for an object in the road. By using counterfactuals to learn rules for how things work, cars could be better prepared for rare events. Working from causal rules rather than a list of previous examples ultimately makes the system more versatile.

On a different note, I asked GPT-4 to visualize the cause and effect flow for lighting a fire. It isn't super detailed but not wrong either:

(Though I think being able to draw a graph like this correctly and actually understanding causality aren't necessarily related.)

If you tell me the original prompts you used, we can test them in GPT-4 and see how well it performs.

I appreciate your kind words, I'm glad you find it useful!

That's a very interesting question! I ran two alternative versions of the prompt. The first one only includes "people", the second one says "all people". Here are the results:

open source, federated software connecting people across the globe, without commercial interest --q 2 --v 5.1

open source, federated software connecting all people across the globe, without commercial interest --q 2 --v 5.1

Then I re-ran my original prompt to get 4 versions for a better comparison:

Maybe there is a slight bias toward showing America or Europe if the word "free" is in the prompt, but I would need to run many more experiments to get a representative result.

You’re right! And it appears in all of them, regardless of the prompt. Maybe it uses this shape for any weird or incomprehensible prompt.

My username according to Midjourney (v5.1, q=2):

I will use this everywhere without shame

No problem! It does a really good job (compared to 3.5 which often hallucinates).

Actually the communities show up in the search results, but only after some time (10-20 seconds). At least for me.

Wow, that’s a great analogy!

I’ve wanted to read Meditations since forever. I’ll try your method, thanks for the suggestion! I hope poor Marcus Aurelius will forgive me for reading his diary in the bathroom.

It's intuitive to those who grew up using it. For me, Celsius is much more intuitive because people around me used it all my life and refer to common temperatures in Celsius.

So I think intuitiveness is very subjective and not a good criterion to judge a unit by.

That comment is so eloquent