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In principle, yes, but isolated unvaccinated communities can still have major incidents just from one contact. E.g. Germany is at around 97% and a couple weeks ago there was a small outbreak involving a bunch of unvaccinated children.

If they were smarter they’d just detect AI agents and quote them higher prices.

It does include the fifth password Louvre4, but actually they only can’t re-use the previous 6 passwords so it went through.

I don't understand how people can look at the insane progress gpt has made in the last 3 years and just arbitrarily decide that this is its maximum capability.

So this is not entirely arbitrary, and probably part of it is also that they’re not just looking at the progress, but also at systemic issues.

For example we know that larger models with more training material are more powerful. That’s probably the biggest contributing factor to the insane pace at which they’ve developed. But we’re also at a point where AI companies are saying they are running out of data. The models we have now are already trained on basically the entire open internet and a lot of non-public data too. Therefore we can’t expect their capabilities to scale with more data unless we find ways to get humans to generate more data. At the same time the quality of data on the open internet decreases because more of it is generated by AI.

On the other hand, making them larger also has physical requirements, most of all power. We are already at a point where AI companies are buying nuclear power plants for their data centers. So scaling in this way is close to the limit too. Building new nuclear power plants takes ages.

Another different thing is that LLMs can’t learn. They don’t have to be able to learn to be useful, obviously we can use the current ones just fine at least for some tasks. But nonetheless this is something that limits the progress that’s possible for them.

And then there is the entire AI bubble thing. The economical side of things, where we have an entire circular economy based on the idea that companies like OpenAI can spend billions on data centers. But they are losing money. Pretty much none of the AI companies are profitable other than the ones that only provide the infrastructure. Right now investors are scared enough to miss out on AGI to continue investing but if they stopped, it would be over.

And all this is super fragile. The current big players are all using the same approach. If one company makes that next step and finds a better approach than transformer LLMs, the others are toast. Or if some Chinese company makes a breakthrough with energy usage again. Or if there is a hardware breakthrough and the incentive to pay for hosted LLMs goes away. Basically even progress can pop the bubble because if we can all run AI that does a good enough job at home then the AI companies will never hit their revenue targets. And then the investment stops and companies that bleed billions every quarter without investors backing them can die very quickly.

Personally I don’t think they will stop becoming better right now. Even if they do stop, I’m not convinced we understand them well enough to be unable to improve the ways in which we use them a bit more. But when people say that this is the peak, they’re looking at the bigger picture. They say that LLMs can’t get closer to human intelligence because fundamentally, we don’t have a way to make them learn, they say that the development model is not sustainable, and other reasons like that.

I started learning when I was 9. I think to some extent it was easier back then in the 80ies because computers were relatively simple machines. On the other hand I also had to learn English at the same time to be able to read manuals and programming books etc. So I think it must be possible because even if I saw the word “syntax” I doubt I had a full grasp of what it means.

I once knew how to do this in 68k assembly. Maybe re-learning it in python from this article is exactly what I deserve.

Tbf the company doesn’t seem to spell out jialichuang or printed circuit board on their web site either, so maybe the author didn’t know.

Well if they are too stupid to breathe, you’re also not being forced to share oxygen with them, so there is no problem either way.

You are being forced to breathe?

I’ve had to fix things with customs so often when ordering items from non-EU online shops… if they can intercept my books and hold them until I explain that they’re books, then they can intercept toys too.

Reminds me of Of Mice and Sand

On Mac:

If you want an icon you can double click on your desktop, you can put you command in a file with the extension “.command” and mark it as executable. Double clicking it will run the content as a shell script in Terminal.

If you want something that can be put into the Dock, use the Script Editor application that comes with macOS to create a new AppleScript script. Type do shell script "<firefox command here>" then find Export in the menu. Instead of Script, choose export to Application and check Run Only. This will give you an application you can put in the Dock.

If you want to use Shortcuts, you can use the Run Shell Script action in Shortcuts too.

Finally, if you want something that opens multiple firefoxes at once, chain multiple firefox invocations together on one line separated by an ampersand. There is an option you have to use (--new-instance I think?) to make Firefox actually start a complete new instance.