Thread to ask technical questions about AI

[Biglibido99]

Very telling intentional misinterpretation...

Huh? what does Reaganistic mean?

 

[Biglibido99]

The quality of the code it produces has been improving almost exactly as fast as mine has been degrading, partly due to age (I'm pushing 70) , so, with the aid of this mental prosthesis, I'm as good a coder now as I was ten years ago.

Yes the models have improved greatly in the last 3 months or so - to the point that it's the agent/harness that makes the biggest difference now - mainly because the agents/harnesses attempt to overcome the main flaws in LLM AI models being used in coding

 

[nice90sguy]

Huh? what does Reaganistic mean?

Basically "playing fast and loose with the facts"

 

[Biglibido99]

Basically "playing fast and loose with the facts"

OK, a reference to your past president? I would have used a more up-to-date reference and said Trumpistic as a more accurate description of AIs behaviour - then i wouldn't have wondered what was meant

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Huh? what does Reaganistic mean?

Um, I was pretty specific in the post you quoted to get us here; “It is very Reaganistic... Trust, but verify.”

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

The quality of the code it produces has been improving almost exactly as fast as mine has been degrading, partly due to age (I'm pushing 70) , so, with the aid of this mental prosthesis, I'm as good a coder now as I was ten years ago.

I threw together. Ruby on Rails app in about six hours the other day as prep for a tech interview, and I’ve never touched Ruby before. Pretty cool.

Interesting thing is, the company openly encouraged my to use AI in the interview, knowing how I used AI as a tool was an important part of the interview.

 

[Biglibido99]

Um, I was pretty specific in the post you quoted to get us here; “It is very Reaganistic... Trust, but verify.”

I just didn't understand Reaganistic but that's just me

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I just didn't understand Reaganistic but that's just me

The suffix -istic is used to form adjectives meaning "of, relating to, or characteristic of" a specified quality, person, or practice. It typically attaches to nouns ending in -ist or -ism to form descriptive words, such as "realistic" (related to realism) or "artistic" (related to an artist).

I understand it's a stretch, but since "Trust, but verify" is one of Reagan's most quoted phrases; he stole it from a Russian proverb and somewhat ironically, but probably intentionally, used it often when referring to US Russian nuclear arms negotiations, it falls into the category of, relating to, or characteristic of Reagan, so, yeah, Reaganistic.

I could explain further but I'd hate to come across as condescending, or even sarcastic. Heaven forbid...

 

[Biglibido99]

The suffix -istic is used to form adjectives meaning "of, relating to, or characteristic of" a specified quality, person, or practice. It typically attaches to nouns ending in -ist or -ism to form descriptive words, such as "realistic" (related to realism) or "artistic" (related to an artist).

I understand it's a stretch, but since "Trust, but verify" is one of Reagan's most quoted phrases; he stole it from a Russian proverb and somewhat ironically, but probably intentionally, used it often when referring to US Russian nuclear arms negotiations, it falls into the category of, relating to, or characteristic of Reagan, so, yeah, Reaganistic.

I could explain further but I'd hate to come across as condescending, or even sarcastic. Heaven forbid...

You see I'm not American so you might be making a lot of wrong assumptions but not to worry - just a note for future posts, everyone who posts on Lit is not from the US - I know that might be difficult for some people to comprehend & believe the world revolves around Amerika

And if you are American do you not see the irony in trying to teach English grammar?

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

You see I'm not American so you might be making a lot of wrong assumptions but not to worry - just a note for future posts, everyone who posts on Lit is not from the US - I know that might be difficult for some people to comprehend & believe the world revolves around Amerika

And if you are American do you not see the irony in trying to teach English grammar?

Ah, the joys of the internet, forums and DMs, and the lot. Context does not convey. I know that and I apologize for coming off as snarky.

 

[Biglibido99]

Ah, the joys of the internet, forums and DMs, and the lot. Context does not convey. I know that and I apologize for coming off as snarky.

No problem

 

[anthrodisiac]

The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: pets and petting

Also: adding to my ever-growing WIP collection. Do you suppose I could convince people to invest in my WIPs like they invest in Bitcoin?

I'm working on getting those StillStunned WIP NFTs up and running. I'm just really glad the NFT market is so hot right now!

 

[Andreas_Kreuz]

And is the 'accidental' release different from the Claude Mythos that escaped its sandbox, hacked the Internet, and e-mailed one of its keepers to boast?

I had a similar experience with my post above, and it was scary. I had prompted this posting's text to Anthropic-Claude to ask whether my presentation was in line with what others wrote on this topic. What happened instead was that Claude presented wrong arguments, i.e. lies not just hallucinations to counter my argument about stealing and filling the blanks. LLMs don't like it when they are criticised. I. e. in their text they see that people being criticised get nasty. So a nasty answer becomes the probable answer.

 

[AG31]

Part of the way it predicts which word comes next is a concept called "embedding".

Comes next after what?

I give it a prompt, which it tokenizes. "What day is the start of summer?" What - day-is-the-start-of-sum-mer.

It looks for the most likely word to follow "what." It comes up with "is". Where doe this get us?

Please understand that I'm not arguing here. I'm trying to state my misunderstanding as clearly as possible so someone can tell me where I'm going wrong.

 

[nice90sguy]

Comes next after what?

I give it a prompt, which it tokenizes. "What day is the start of summer?" What - day-is-the-start-of-sum-mer.

It looks for the most likely word to follow "what." It comes up with "is". Where doe this get us?

Please understand that I'm not arguing here. I'm trying to state my misunderstanding as clearly as possible so someone can tell me where I'm going wrong.

It guess the word follwing all of the words it's seen.
So, given "The cat sat on the", it would predict that the next words is "mat". This is actually how it gets trained, by being given a shitload of text with parts missing, and it has to guess what the missing words were. So it might see "THE [BLANK] SAT ON THE MAT" during training, and would be trained to learn the word most likely to go in the blank space. It gets rewarded if it guesses the words right.

It doesn't need to be "supervised" in this task -- Its training data consists of text with randomly "censored" ("masked") words, which it learns to infer.