Recommend this paper[0] that discusses the 'infinite monkeys' version methodically.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1304/1304.3381.pdf

I just started using this! I'm making a tool called command-line-maps, its gonna be amazing.

Echoing another comment here, it doesn't work in tmux though which is pretty heartbreaking. But viewing beautiful maps in the terminal is amazing, and works perfectly.

(I'm using the alacritty branch that supports it, worked perfectly.)

Large language models and the akashic records

Can you elaborate?

I see this paper as explicitly giving Wikipedia useful information and the ability to make decisions.

I think keeping these things transparent is good for Google.

Training AI isn't a core goal of Wikipedia so the notion that this information is useful to them seems questionable.

However, wouldn't a GPT trained exactly on Wikipedia be quite useful? It would be the biggest user-editable training material for a language model that can be asked about things.

In addition to the obvious use of responding to questions based on the material, perhaps it could be a tool for finding e.g. if and how a cited source relates to the article where it was cited. Abuse detection could also be one application.

I couldn't exactly find out what the goal of Wikipedia is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia but it doesn't seem a "better search" would be opposite to those goals.

Claims that GPT produces "better search" are groundless until GPT demonstrably produces "better search" and the resulting product has been observed for unintended consequences. Gonna be a wait.

Oh boy, the best place for subtle errors. A public wiki, being proofread by someone who is likely not a subject matter expert! I don’t see anyway this can go poorly. And obviously search hasn’t been solved for decades.

They paper is also telling them how to poison their databases, so if they really wanted to avoid being used in that way they could do.

The paper also tells them how to solve that issue, which is what google would prefer. But they are letting wikipedia make that choice.

Couldn't help think of this[0]: the idea that chatgpt and other such breakthroughs might help us hit escape velocity from bullshit jobs.

[0] https://thezvi.substack.com/p/escape-velocity-from-bullshit-...

as I see it, until now automation has done the opposite. it’s scarcified valuable skilled manufacturing jobs and forced more and more people into the service industry. I don’t see why this will be any different.

that’s the dystopia I’m terrified of, no one starving or homeless, but as penance we all have to be waitors and shop attendants for the landed upper classes

You dont think the commercialization speed of GPT3 via CoPilot is evidence of something?

You think that was a one-off?

if you use the brave browser, TOR is always a keyboard shortcut away

The API already still works in peak times. That's not exclusive to this offer!

This leads to exactly the kinds of asymmetry that trolls take advantage of, basically a form of Brandolini's Law[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law

This. This is what I use it for most often at the moment (helping out my rusty physics). Its super helpful. If I was 20 again, teaching myself maths on Khan Academy, with this grade of chatbot in the corner ready to help out? Heaven.