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Good recommendations! I’d suggest doing some spacy tutorials as well, regarding the topics in the first paragraph. But arguably it’s possible nowadays to just start at transformers without any NLP knowledge, e.g. using huggingface’s AutoTrain or something similar. I wouldn’t recommend it, but you definitely could.

Alright I see, thanks a lot for explaining

Ok yeah make sense! I’m definitely not a fan of Facebook’s and Meta’s data policies either.

But how is anyone going to control a decentralised platform tho? What you’re describing seems like it would only apply to users on instances controlled by Meta, i.e. on threads itself. Or maybe I still don’t understand how the fediverse works.

Can you explain how it’s 100% super obvious? I thought a popular platform with many users entering the fediverse might be good for exposure but it seems like the consensus here is that it’s actually bad. Help me understand how it’s bad?

I’ve read good things about donut, although I haven’t used it yet myself.

If I’m understanding you correctly, you might want to take a look at some NERT models for topic extraction on huggingface. I’m not certain there are already ones for resume building, but I’m sure they exist. An alternative is spaCy, as you mentioned, but there you also rely on a pretrained model.

I was happily using Lite as well and them just announcing it’s discontinuing in a month feels really unfair. I don’t want the added functionality of youtube premium. I don’t want to pay €15 a month for the same thing I had before for half the money. Now I have to find an alternative, and I think for me it will also be ad blockers and piracy. I’ll miss casting youtube to my TV ad free though…

That’s a great tip thank you!

I’m looking to buy a new TV soon ish and I’m really afraid of ending up with something with a ton of pre installed bloatware, simply because that’s the industry standard nowadays. If anyone has any tips for “dumb” TVs in the ~€600/$650 price range I’d love to hear them. I have a chromecast for streaming and it works fine, so I’m really just looking to buy a large screen without bloatware, no Internet connection required, etc. That’s what my current ~10 year old TV does and tbh I just want the same thing but better picture quality.

Good article :) it makes me happy to see this being explained in such a basic way because I sure as hell can’t manage.

Actually one of the conclusions from both the Science and Nature articles were that they mostly fuel far right radicalisation, not so much polarisation (which implies both ends of the political spectrum). Which I guess means leftists are generally either more capable of spotting misinformation or less inclined to act on it.

Because reproduction is a lot easier than education

I used to play tanks and snake

Jerboa is fine for me, I’ve been using it for about 2 weeks now. Last update also added a bunch of new functionality which is awesome. It’s still in alpha but seems to be on track to become a great app.

I read the article yes

Yup it’s a common sentiment since the GPT era. Trash in = trash out still applies and we should be focusing our efforts on collecting quality data. Unfortunately that’s not what funders are interested in. Grants generally just go to people who promise better metrics.

By now, most of us have heard about the survey that asked AI researchers and developers to estimate the probability that advanced AI systems will cause “human extinction or similarly permanent and severe disempowerment of the human species”. Chillingly, the median response was that there was a 10% chance.

How does one rationalize going to work and pushing out tools that carry such existential risks? Often, the reason given is that these systems also carry huge potential upsides – except that these upsides are, for the most part, hallucinatory.

Ummm how about the obvious answer: most AI researchers won’t think they’re the ones working on tools that carry existential risks? Good luck overthrowing human governance using ChatGPT.

The thing is - and what’s also annoying me about the article - AI experts and computational linguistics know this. It’s just the laypeople that end up using (or promoting) these tools now that they’re public that don’t know what they’re talking about and project intelligence onto AI that isn’t there. The real hallucination problem isn’t with deep learning, it’s with the users.

I was going to ask which are transformer based but it’s actually nearly all of them (non grey) 😳. I thought BERT was still pre transformers. Goes to show how quickly things have evolved in recent years.

I’m mostly into deck builders and I haven’t seen these mentioned before so I’ll drop two of my favourites Dune: Imperium and (TBOI:) Four Souls! Also an honorable mention to Dominion but I haven’t played that in a while.