Larry O'Brien

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A writer who programs. Formerly, a programmer who wrote. ML for Earth. Formerly: Azure ML, Xamarin, Gemini Observatory, magazines (AI Expert, Game Developer, Computer Language), etc.

#ML #Hawaii #MLOps #Pytorch #MetricLearning #FastAI #MarineBio #TTRPG #Blackwater #UnderwaterPhotography Searchable on #tfr

Bloghttps://knowing.net
Kissy-beaks. Laysan albatrosses at Ka'ena Point on Oahu this weekend. #Hawaii #birdphotography #birding
Did I achieve tack-sharp focus? No. But did I get the albatross in the frame? Also no. #birdphotography
How does #LLM attention solve the #Winograd scheme "The bowling ball did not fit in the suitcase because it was too [big/small]."? Is this a specific case of having memorized the example?
Still relevant
What’s that now? #AccidentalSimpsons
It's been a fool's bet to expect computerized assistants (Clippy, Siri, etc.) to be successful. Yet, here we are. https://media.tenor.com/ImTzioGY918AAAAC/yet-here.gif
I know it's a "squirrel!" thought, but I'm tempted to write a ChatGPT plugin that accepts a text description of a manta's ventral pattern and an image and returns "This image is a photo of Akari"
#GPT4 sez #LLM s are "neither liars nor bullshitters in the human sense....They do not have intentions, emotions, or consciousness, so they cannot be indifferent to the truth..." Not so sure about that logic.
Bing's chat is not _just_ #GPT-4. I asked GPT-4 "Who originated the phrase that I'll paraphrase as "AI is just what we don't know how to program yet" and it incorrectly said Hofstadter. #Bing apparently searched for the exact phrasing, equivocated on it's correct answer Tessler.
Holds.