It was some attempt at reductio ad absurdum. If you are concerned about letting Alexa into your home, you must be as irrational as Chris Hemsworth. Edit: I'm misusing reductio ad absurdum, but somebody will please tell me what the fallacy here is called.
I made a comment above about why "toys" are really important. In this case, LLMs are bad at spacial stuff. Someone might stumble upon a great way to get an LLM to do spacial stuff.
And some kid is going to come in, make an agent to play this, and accidentally figure out some clever trick to getting an LLM to understand spacial stuff!
This is exactly why "toys" are so critical, especially now.
His key trick: recursive weight-sharing in
fractal convolutional blocks, so each column of the network acts as a
continuous-valued cellular automaton ticking different numbers of times.
The deepest column gets a 33x33 receptive field -- enough to connect power
across an entire 32x32 map in one forward pass.
The agents discovered power-plant + residential pairing, road placement
for density, zone clustering by type, and traffic-avoiding road layouts.
When stuck at local optima, a human player could intervene (deleting power
plants) to force re-exploration -- and the agent would improve its design.
The paper was 2019, before LLMs were doing this kind of thing. Different
paradigm (RL on tile grids vs. LLMs on coordinate text), same hard problem.
Any time you get mad about a streaming service who seems to have changed music or a credits clip for a TV show or movie, this is basically why.
To get the rights to use things in technologies that didn't exist when the media was created, you often have to go back to everyone involved and get their permission. Sometimes they don't say yes, or they aren't findable, or just aren't alive, and it's not clear who owns the rights anymore.
This isn't as much of a problem with newer media, because contracts now specify what happens with new technologies, but old contracts were often limited to specific technologies.
If a person from the Philippines comes to the USA, they are allowed to drive on our roads as long as they have a valid license in the Philippines (no international permit required).
I would assume that would apply here too.
But also, they aren't actually driving the car. They are giving hints to the autonomous driver.
International drivers are allowed to drive on US roads as long as they have a valid license in their own country. In particular, Filipino drivers are allowed to drive on US roads without any extra paperwork.
But also, even in the USA, we have 51+ different licensing schemes in the US. We already accept that if you have a license in one place, it's good in all the places.
Indeed. I can rent a car and drive in the US, despite having learnt to drive and only having a driving license from a country which drives on the other side of the road.
This is what happens when your population growth is driven by legal immigrants, and then you make your country very unfriendly to legal immigrants by "accidentally" locking them up while at the same time making it really hard for them to become permanent residents.
The Olympics have really driven home to me how America is truly a melting pot. When you look at the Olympians from say Greece, you can say "oh those are Greek people". When you look at the Nordic athletes, you can say the same. Or the Japanese or Chinese.
But you look at the American team, and they don't have a single physical "look". There is a mix of races and cultures, and they're all American. People complain that America doesn't have a culture, and they're kind of right. We have mix of everyone else's.
It will take decades, if ever, to fix this. Some people from all around the world longed to come to America. Not anymore. Now they are looking elsewhere.
The issue here isn't the recording, it's the packaging it up for sale that's the issue.
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