I’d say its a combo of them feeling entitled to plagiarise people’s work and fundamentally not respecting the work of others (a point OpenAI’s Studio Ghibli abomination machine demonstrated at humanity’s expense.

Its fucking disgusting how they denigrate the very work on which they built their fucking business on. I think its a mixture of the two though, they want it plagiarized so that it looks like their bot is doing more coding than it is actually capable of.

On a wider front, I expect this AI bubble’s gonna cripple the popularity of FOSS licenses - the expectation of properly credited work was a major aspect of the current FOSS ecosystem, and that expectation has been kneecapped by the automated plagiarism machines, and programmers are likely gonna be much stingier with sharing their work because of it.

Oh absolutely. My current project is sitting in a private git repo, hosted on a VPS. And no fucking way will I share it under anything less than GPL3 .

We need a license with specific AI verbiage. Forbidding training outright won't work (they just claim fair use).

I was thinking adding a requirement that the license header should not be removed unless a specific string ("This code was adapted from libsomeshit_6.23") is included in the comments by the tool, for the purpose of propagation of security fixes and supporting a consulting market for the authors. In the US they do own the judges, but in the rest of the world the minuscule alleged benefit of not attributing would be weighted against harm to their customers (security fixes not propagated) and harm to the authors (missing out on consulting gigs).

edit: perhaps even an explainer that authors see non attribution as fundamentally fraudulent against the user of the coding tool: the authors of libsomeshit routinely publish security fixes and the user of the coding tool, who has been defrauded to believe that the code was created de-novo by the coding tool, is likely to suffer harm from misuse of published security fixes by hackers (which wouldn't be possible if the code was in fact created de-novo).

I dunno, I guess I should try it just to see what the buzz is all about, but I am rather opposed to plagiarism and river boiling combination, and paying them money is like having Peter Thiel do 10x donations matching for donations to a captain planet villain.

I personally want a model that does not store much specific code in its weights, uses RAG on compatibly licensed open source and cites what it RAG’d . E.g. I want to set app icon on Linux, it’s fine if it looks into GLFW and just borrows code with attribution that I will make sure to preserve. I don’t need it to be gaslighting me that it wrote it from reading the docs. And this isn’t literature, theres nothing to be gained from trying to dilute copyright by mixing together a hundred different pieces of code doing the same thing.

I also don’t particularly get the need to hop onto the bandwagon right away.

It has all the feel of boiling a lake to do for(int i=0; i<strlen(s); ++i) . LLMs are so energy intensive in large part because of quadratic scaling, but we know the problem is not intrinsically quadratic otherwise we wouldn’t be able to write, read, or even compile the code.

Each token has the potential of relating to any other token but does only relate to a few.

I’d give the bastards some time to figure this out. I wouldn’t use an O(N^2) compiler I can’t run locally, either, there is also a strategic disadvantage in any dependence on proprietary garbage.

Edit: also i have a very strong suspicion that someone will figure out a way to make most matrix multiplications in an LLM be sparse, doing mostly same shit in a different basis. An answer to a specific query does not intrinsically use every piece of information that LLM has memorized.

When they tested on bugs not in SWE-Bench, the success rate dropped to 57‑71% on random items, and 50‑68% on fresh issues created after the benchmark snapshot. I’m surprised they did that well.

After the benchmark snapshot. Could still be before LLM training data cut off, or available via RAG.

edit: For a fair test you have to use git issues that had not been resolved yet by a human.

This is how these fuckers talk, all of the time. Also see Sam Altman's not-quite-denials of training on Scarlett Johansson's voice: they just asserted that they had hired a voice actor, but didn't deny training on actual Scarlett Johansson's voice. edit: because anyone with half a brain knows that not only did they train on her actual voice, they probably gave it and their other pirated movie soundtracks massively higher weighting, just as they did for books and NYT articles.

Anyhow, I fully expect that by now they just use everything they can to cheat benchmarks, up to and including RAG from solutions past the training dataset cut off date. With two of the paper authors being from Microsoft itself, expect that their "fresh issues" are gamed too.

In theory, at least, criminal justice's purpose is prevention of crimes. And if it would serve that purpose to arrest a person, it would serve that same purpose to court-order a shutdown of a chatbot.

There's no 1st amendment right to enter into criminal conspiracies to kill people. Not even if "people" is Sam Altman.

I think I figured it out.

He fed his post to AI and asked it to list the fictional universes he’d want to live in, and that’s how he got Dune. Precisely the information he needed, just as his post describes.

Naturally, that system broke down (via capitalists grabbing the expensive fusion power plants for their own purposes)

This is kind of what I have to give to Niven. The guy is a libertarian, but he would follow his story all the way into such results. And his series where organs are being harvested for minor crimes? It completely flew over my head that he was trying to criticize taxes, and not, say, republican tough-on-crime, mass incarceration, and for profit prisons. Because he followed the logic of the story and it aligned naturally with its real life counterpart, the for profit prison system, even if he wanted to make some sort of completely insane anti tax argument where taxing rich people is like harvesting organs or something.

On the other hand, much better regarded Heinlein, also a libertarian, would write up a moon base that exports organic carbon and where you have to pay for oxygen to convert to CO2. Just because he wanted to make a story inside of which "having to pay for air to breathe" works fine.

Yeah I think it is almost undeniable chatbots trigger some low level brain thing. Eliza has 27% Turing Test pass rate. And long before that, humans attributed weather and random events to sentient gods.

This makes me think of Langford’s original BLIT short story.

And also of rove beetles that parasitize ant hives. These bugs are not ants but they pass the Turing test for ants - they tap the antennae with an ant and the handshake is correct and they are identified as ants from this colony and not unrelated bugs or ants from another colony.

He’s such a complete moron. He doesn’t want to recite “DEI shibboleths”? What does he even think that would refer to? Why shibboleths?

To spell it out, that would refer to an antisemitic theory that the reason (for example) some black guy would get a medal of honor (the “deimedal”) is because of the jews.

I swear this guy is dumber than Trump. Trump for all his rambling, uses actual language - Trump understands what the shit he is saying means to his followers. Scott… he really does not.

And it is Google we're talking about, lol. If no one uses their AI shit they just replace something people use with it (also see search).

I just describe it as "computer scientology, nowhere near as successful as the original".

The other thing is that he's a Thiel project, different but not any more sane than Curtis Yarvin aka Moldbug. So if they heard of moldbug's political theories (which increasingly many people heard about because of, well, them being enacted) it's easy to give a general picture of total fucking insanity funded by thiel money. It doesn't really matter what the particular insanity is, and it matters even less now as the AGI shit hit mainstream entirely bypassing anything Yudkowsky had to say on the subject.

Not really. Here's the chain-of-word-vomit that led to the answers:

https://pastebin.com/HQUExXkX

Note that in "its impossible" answer it correctly echoes that you can take one other item with you, and does not bring the duck back (while the old overfitted gpt4 obsessively brought items back), while in the duck + 3 vegetables variant, it has a correct answer in the wordvomit, but not being an AI enthusiast it can't actually choose the correct answer (a problem shared with the monkeys on typewriters).

I'd say it clearly isn't ignoring the prompt or differences from the original river crossings. It just can't actually reason, and the problem requires a modicum of reasoning, much as unloading groceries from a car does.

Nobel prize in Physics for attempting to use physics in AI but it didn't really work very well and then one of the guys working on a better more pure mathematics approach that actually worked and got the Turing Award for the latter, but that's not what the prize is for, while the other guy did some other work, but that is not what the prize is for. AI will solve all physics!!!111