My condodolences :-( Did he bring his drum to one of the FRIAM meetings? I have
read he was an avid drummer like Richard Feynman himself or even better.There
were so many interesting people in this list, like Doug Roberts for instance,
who used to have a parrot farm address, but as a remote part
I had short discussion with Gemini today, and when it said it is highly likely
that a large language model would not have brief moments of self-awareness I
asked how a response would look like if such moments exist. It mentioned for
example first person perspective and self reference. I argued t
I believe Qualia can be encoded. How? If we take a look at Olympic sport events
we can distinguish between sports where we can measure physical results
objectively, like athletics or swimming where we can measure time, weight,
height or distance, and sports where we judge beauty and aesthetics
this question, right?nOn Wed, Jul 24,
2024 at 4:38 PM Jochen Fromm wrote:Are animals and humans
capable of mutual love? I'm not sure. It depends how you define love. Romantic
love seems to be specific for humans. No matter how much your dog or cat may
like you, "if you die at home alon
nd society,
tens of thousands of years before the agricultural revolution and the emergence
of urbanization. And it was rich and complex and fascinating and quite
informative of why people are what they are today.davewOn Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at
12:31 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:Nick, Looking for se
ng-and-beliefs/Children
begin organizing their experience with concepts that have no material
existence very early in life. Perhaps as soon as they start talking to each
other about WTF is going on. Not in the research, but I expect they talk to
their pets about this, too.-- rec --On Wed, Jul 24,
Nick, Looking for self-awareness in animals before language emerged feels to me
like searching for culture in anthropology before civilizations appeared.People
in anthropology study human societies, cultures and their development, but
sadly mostly in the time before it gets interesting (when rel
republican-takeover_n_66998a0ae4b047588a4b2aac-J.
Original message From: Jochen Fromm Date:
7/19/24 9:45 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group Subject: [FRIAM] How democracies die I am reading
"How democracies die" from Daniel Ziblatt and
I am reading "How democracies die" from Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky who
warn that modern democracies die slowly and from the inside. They particularly
warn about Trump and argue that political parties in the US play an essential
role in the defense of democracy, because they have a gateke
A president who murders his opponents would not be better than an evil dictator
in an authoritarian state. Putin's opponents like Navalny, Litvinenko and
Nemtsov were all brutally poisoned and/or murdered.But you are right, this
possibility exists after the recent decision of the supreme court.
vival beyond death. A Landscape of Consciousness, I
suggest, offers perspective."On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 at 23:58, Jochen Fromm
wrote:Good point. Since plants have no brains and no
neurons and no muscles and do not move they have no "patterns of doings" and
therefore no consciousness. T
t consciousness is a degree-thing so long as we
understand it with reference to patterns of doings rather than in terms of the
equipment organisms carry around. Nick On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 7:21 PM Jochen
Fromm wrote:The dictionary defines intelligence as the
ability to learn or understand or
ness, that they are not so for me. So, what facts of
the matter convince you that one or more languages are essential for meta
awareess. Or is it elf-evidentOn Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 4:49 PM Jochen Fromm
wrote:IMHO it is not one language which is necessary, but
more than one. Languages can be
d of odd if it she didn't because animals have all
sorts of ways of distinguishing self from other. They have ways of knowinng
that "I did that". (e.g., scent marking?) On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Jochen Fromm wrote:Well yes, if meta-awareness is defined
as acting in response
own awareness. Now, am I correct in assuming that
you identify meta-awareness with consciousness and that you think that the cat
is not meta-aware and that I probably am? And further that you think that
meta-awareness requires consciousness?Nick On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Jochen Fromm
ept a religious explanation? Not consciously.---Frank C. Wimberly140
Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505505 670-9918Santa Fe, NMOn Thu, Jul 4, 2024,
5:26 PM Jochen Fromm wrote:I don't get Philip Goff: first
we send our children 20 years to school, from Kindergarten to college and
university
I don't get Philip Goff: first we send our children 20 years to school, from
Kindergarten to college and university, to teach them all kinds of languages,
and then we wonder how they can be conscious. It will be the same for AI: first
we spend millions and millions to train them all available kn
The talk about old age reminds me of the novel "Old man's war" from John Scalzi
where a couple of old men and women after retirement join an international
space force to protect interplanetary colonists from
aliens.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man's_WarOld age is no guarantee for
an incapa
In Germany politicians are horrified by the duel and argue that Biden should
step back and retire. Both candidates are too old, and the mere thought that
Trump - a convicted felon - might be elected again despite all he has done is
horrifying. Maybe democrats could give Kamala Harris the chance
I hope you are safe in Santa Fe? The worst wildfires seem to be near Ruidoso
and the Mescalero Apache reservation south of
Albuquerquehttps://www.npr.org/2024/06/19/g-s1-5147/new-mexico-wildfire-thousands-flee-J.-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .
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I believe we have someone from India as well? I read in "The Economist" today
that Narendra Modi lost his majority in the recent elections which would be a
sign that democracy is working. -J.
Original message From: steve smith Date:
6/17/24 9:19 PM (GMT+01:00) To: friam@redfi
provided similar levels of "healthy existence" to their
citys/villages/families/individuals in spite of varying degrees of
different approaches to "being".
- SS
On 6/15/24 2:51 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
The hijack
-systems-the-software-challenge-of-the-future/
), i.e., systems that cannot be
"engineered."
davew
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024, at 5:30 PM,
e agency are
more often ascribed as (or felt like) "good" ones, whether painful,
pleasurable, fearful, triumphant, or whatever the token ascribed.On 6/3/24
13:15, Jochen Fromm wrote:> Did you notice that some of the most successful
movies from Spielberg are about our deepest fears?
Did you notice that some of the most successful movies from Spielberg are about
our deepest fears? Jurassic Park is about monsters from the past. Jaws is about
monsters which lurk in the deep blue sea. Indiana Jones is about monsters (and
treasures) hiding in dark tombs.Paul Boom remarks in his
Do you have good places that offer horseback riding tours around Santa Fe? Then
I could perhaps convince my wife to visit Santa Fe next year. Maybe with a stop
in L.A. before where we could visit Russ. She likes riding and we have bought a
new horse yesterday named "Mack" after we lost the last
This prompt reminds me of the recent book from Matt Strassler named "Waves in
an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean". It sounds
interesting but they don't have it in the libraries here yet and the hardcover
is too expensive.https://www.harvard.com/book/waves_in_an_im
Takeshi Inomata from the University of Arizona does interesting work on the
rise of the Maya civilization:Monumental architecture at Aguada Fenix and the
rise of Maya civilization, Nature 582 (2020)
530-533https://pasolibre.grecu.mx/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/41586_2020_2343_opt.pdf-J.-. --- - /
as "Science progresses
one funeral at a
time"_Stephen
GuerinCEO, Founder https://simtable.comstephen.gue...@simtable.com
stephenguerin@fas.harvard.eduHarvard Visualization Research and Teaching
Labmobile: (505)577-5828On Fri,
n-engaging-vexing-memoir-with-a-humility-bypass-J.
Original message From: Jochen Fromm Date:
4/19/24 7:32 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group Subject: [FRIAM] Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) A sad day
today. Daniel Dennett has died :-( For
A sad day today. Daniel Dennett has died :-( For every big question in
philosophy there is at least one Daniel Dennett book:"Consciousnes Explained"
(1991) about consciousness"Darwin's Dangerous Idea" (1995) about evolution
"Freedom Evolves" (2003) about free will"Breaking the spell" (2006) abou
On "Hacker News" someone wrote today [1] that transformers in LLMs work like
the Hamiltonian in Quantum Mechnics because prediction of the next token in the
sequence is determined by computing the next context-aware embedding vector
from the last context-aware embedding vector alone, similar to
From: Frank Wimberly
Date: 3/20/24 1:46 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Sleep trackers I am so
sorry, Jochen.---Frank C. Wimberly140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505505
670-9918Santa Fe, NMOn Wed, Mar 20, 2024, 12:59 AM Jochen
Corentin de Chatelperron and Caroline Pultz tried to live for 120 days in the
Mexican desert self sufficiently, growing their own food. Using their own
desalination machines they generated fresh water for the plants and themselves
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/110239-000-A/the-biosphere-experime
The lies of Trump and his MAGA cult are a bit like extrachromosomal DNA that is
apparently behind many malignant cancers. Both are normally part of selfish
entities - single cell organisms or narcissistic con men - and disrupt or
distort the normal fabric of the world they live in. Interestingl
Tom Gauld describes most of the problems of interdisciplinary research in a
single
imagehttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2389834-tom-gauld-on-areas-of-expertise/-J.-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .
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There is book by Cody Cassidy named "How to Survive History: How to Outrun a
Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of
History's Deadliest
Catastrophes".https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/668982/how-to-survive-history-by-cody-cassidy/Sometimes
escaping di
For images OpenAI has added watermarks to identify AI generated images. But
these watermarks are apparently easy to
remove.https://gizmodo.com/openai-chatgpt-how-to-check-watermark-metadata-c2pa-1851234655For
texts it is harder to recognize if they are AI generated or not unless it is a
regurgi
Wow, the young Steve Jobs and Owen on the same stage, together with Andrew
Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson. I didn't know he knew all of them. Has he got
Apple shares as compensation back then? Apple shares from 1984 must be worth a
fortune now.-J.
Original message From: Stephen Gue
I saw this article mentioned by Eliot Jacobson on his X/Twitter profile which
argues that our actions will most likely not be enough until there is a big
shock which motivates real change. It also uses the Covid pandemic to
illustrate that people are able to change if they are convinced their li
Langchain is an agent framework started by Harrison Chase. A Langchain agent
uses LLMs to reason in a perceive-reason-act cycle. One could argue that
Langchain agents are able to think, and we are even able to watch them
thinkinghttps://github.com/langchain-ai/langchaindeeplearning.ai has free
I am not a big fan of Sabine. Her book "Lost in math" is too pessimistic and
too negative for me. She earns money from her YouTube video channel. The more
sensational the content, the more clicks. That being said I agree that climate
change is one of the biggest problems, and the outlook is not
then any tiny
little choice like "Hey let's go hiking this weekend." ... "No, I'm going to a
Super Bowl party." will subtly guide one's trajectory through time and
space.The more one identifies with some (set of) narrative(s), the less free
will one ha
Since one of you mentioned today that free will is a recurring FRIAM topic I
was thinking about it and found this SCIAM article that argues that human
beings do have the power to make conscious
choices.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/free-will-is-only-an-illusion-if-you-are-too/On
th
; at a time. Etc.
When we make a posterior value judgement about these transformations, it's
difficult to make a charitable one. And what most of us seem to want is to hide
in that comfy stupor of entitlement, to minimize surprisal.It is a fantastic
show.On 1/15/24 09:45, Jochen Fromm wro
The TV series Breaking Bad was created 10 years ago, but I only recently was
able to watch it on Netflix. As you know it is about the question how a good
man turns bad. The story starts with a tragedy, a lung cancer diagnosis for the
main character Walt(er) White. Life has not been kind to the u
Today 3 years ago a violent mob of Trump supporters incited by Mr. Trump
himself attacked the Capitol. This alone should disqualify him from any
office.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack-J.
Original message From: Tom Johnson
Date: 1/6/24 9:24
Merry Christmas from Berlin! It must be Farolitos time now in Santa Fe, right?
Here in Berlin we have plenty of Christmas markets where you get hot mulled
wine. At Christmas Eve I was in the "American Church of Berlin" which is over
120 years old. It was mostly empty though. While Donald Trump e
I have seen a TV documentary about John Kennedy Toole and his book "A
confederacy of Dunes" today. The book seems to be funny for the same reason
that Cervantes' Don Quixote is funny: the main character is an idiot who thinks
he is a genius and all the others are in a confederacy against him. In
Owen's project has made it to Hackernews
yesterdayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37573948-J.-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .
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as only one attack but 77 people were
killed.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anders-behring-breivik-appeal-european-court-of-human-rights-norway-massacre/---Frank
C. Wimberly140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505505 670-9918Santa Fe, NMOn
Sun, Sep 3, 2023, 11:13 AM Jochen Fromm wrote:I have read
&
Well, I still believe there is a gun problem in the United States, yes.
Definitely. Just recently a police officer fatally shot a pregnant Black woman
in the parking lot of a grocery store in Ohio after she refused to exit her
car. And Ohio is not even a red state, right? It is also well known t
I have read "Highway of Eternity" from Clifford D. Simak this weekend, one of
the books from the golden age of science fiction which is comparable to "The
city and the Stars" from Arthur C. Clarke and "The end of eternity" from Isaac
Asimov. Both belong to my favorite books. Modern authors don't
To me it looks as if the long period of presidential primaries is a 200 year
old legacy from the time of the founding fathers which had neither cars nor
planes nor mass media. Traveling by horse carriage from state to state took
weeks. Today the world has changed, but the process is still the sa
The countless indictments against Trump remind me of the innumerous indictments
against Navalny in Russia. The indictments against Trump look to me totally
justified. He tried to undermine and to destroy the democratic system by all
kinds of lies and deceit and treachery, by the things that Ruth
Yes, the Greek shipwreck was horrific but the Titan(ic) story sadly got much
more media attention.One aspect is the rich/poor divide: the Titan submersible
contained 5 very rich passengers, while the ship from Africa was full of poor
people looking for a better life. African migrants are for Eur
Cormac McCarthy died yesterday in Santa Fe where he lived for the last 30
years. Douglas Preston lives in Santa Fe too. There must be something in Santa
Fe which attracts good writers :-) What's your favorite McCarthy novel?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/13/cormac-mccarthy-dead-nove
t: Re: [FRIAM] Radical Empiricism
The conclusion I draw is that these conversations have all occurred before. So
I wonder, why have them?
From: Friam On Behalf Of
Jochen Fromm
Sent: Sunday, June 4, 2023 10:44 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] Ra
ChatGPT now allows sharing conversations. I've asked it about William James
book "Essays in Radical
Empiricism"https://chat.openai.com/share/375aef4e-a8d6-467e-8061-bd85b341c46b-J.-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .
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e."https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/James/James_1912/James_1912_02.html-J.
Original message From: Russ Abbott
Date: 5/29/23 8:01 PM (GMT+01:00) To: Jochen Fromm Cc:
The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject:
Re: [FRIAM] A distinguishing feature of living e
Yes, Rodney Brooks said something similar. He said "GPTs have no understanding
of the words they use, no way to connect those words, those symbols, to the
real world. A robot needs to be connected to the real world and its commands
need to be coherent with the real world. Classically it is known
I have asked Bard ( bard.google.com) today about Don Quixote from Cervantes,
and if a large language model would be similar to a Don Quixote without a
Sancho Panza.Here is what Bard replied:"In a way, large language models can be
seen as Don Quixotes without Sancho Panzas. They are trained on ma
ainly apply to that movement. United
states, circa 1964-1972.To the extent that my observation is 'valid'; and the
quote is representative of Paxton (have not read) then all movements are
fascist whether they originated from the "left" or the "right."davewOn Wed, May
ructively/axiomatically. In alignment with Feynman, if
you can't construct the phenomenon, then you don't understand it.Of course, I
know Paxton can't (and wouldn't) construct a fascist society. That's why
simulation is a good thing. 8^D But does Anatomy of Fascism read as
rate
very low according to Paxton, which is a good thing?On Tue, 9 May 2023 at
23:20, Jochen Fromm wrote:In Putin's speech on victory day
today he argued that Russia is again fighting against fascism while the country
clearly shows increasingly signs of fascism itself: from the
In Putin's speech on victory day today he argued that Russia is again fighting
against fascism while the country clearly shows increasingly signs of fascism
itself: from the angry dictator and the dread of the nation's decline under the
corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism to the over
Yes, LLMs give a new boost to agent-based modeling and agent-based software
engineering, but it is a totally new class of agents. AutoGPT is an
examplehttps://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPTWhat do you think is
better to use by the way, Repast4Py or Mesa, or just pure Python in a Jupyte
yes, well said.-J.
Original message From: Steve Smith Date:
4/19/23 11:36 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group Subject: [FRIAM] TruthGPT
I was modestly impressed when Musk helped to get OpenAI formed
and try to be "righteous" with i
Yes, if a large language model is trained on all works of Mozart and
contemporary artists like Haydn, it should be able to create a new piece of
music which sounds almost like Mozart. Finally we can listen to Mozart's lost
28th piano concerto or Beethoven's missing 33th piano sonata o_O-J.
-
I have found a nice book in the book store today: "Native American Myths" by
the British author Rosalind Kerven. A bit like Grimms' Fairy Tales by the Grimm
brothers, only for America instead of Germany. It would probably fit to a book
shop in Santa Fe, since Santa Fe is surrounded by so many In
Friam on behalf of Jochen Fromm
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2023 12:12 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] Bing Chat vs ChatGPT
I've read that Bing Chat is now available for everyone in this blog post..
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023
Maybe Bing Chat takes revenge at ChatGPT... Sounds strange? Not after reading
this
article...https://www.iflscience.com/gpt-4-hires-and-manipulates-human-into-passing-captcha-test-68016-J.
Original message From: Steve Smith Date:
3/20/23 8:58 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Mor
Maybe my mistake was that I tried to chat with Bing Chat. It is called Bing
Chat, but although it is called like this, it is not good at doing at "chat".
ChatGPT is much better when it comes to chatting.Both are good at summarizing
large texts in an instant. Microsoft should have called it "AI a
I've read that Bing Chat is now available for everyone in this blog
post..https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/03/14/Binging..and it really
seems to be available now for everyone. I have tried it and it feels horrible
though. The overall experience is totally different from ChatGPT. Bing
Certainly true the phrase. Reminds me of "Cosmic Evolution" by Eric Chaisson
and "The Life of the Cosmos" by Lee Smolin.If you think about it, then it is
obvious that new objects emerge in the universe in the course of time, and that
new laws are required to describe them, based on their propert
with regard its submissive role—I doubt that Jochen had that
in mind when he wrote his sentence.davewOn Tue, Mar 7, 2023, at 9:50 AM, Jochen
Fromm wrote:ChatGPT apparently uses a technique called "Reinforcement Learning
from Human Feedback" (RLHF). It is not only based on huge a
e or less appropriate for one or another phemonenon we
want to discuss. But I think the idea that speech provides us certain
conventional registers to bound discussions of phenomena, and that these too
may be better- or worse-fit to the organization of the phenomena themselves, is
another fair fine-graining of the terse characterization, running somewhat
parallel to the aspects o
You need a cat! My parents always used to have a cat in their house. Now that I
live in Berlin a cat or dog is impractical, since we live in a small rented
apartment and have no garden, but if you have a house and a garden and a mouse
problem then a cat might help
:-)https://www.offthemark.com/
I enjoy talking with ChatGPT about famous scientists, thinkers, writers and
philosophers. Because it is trained on vast amounts of data it knows them all:
Pascal, Cervantes, Dante, Hugo, Goethe, Leibniz, Newton, Humboldt,
Shakespeare,... It can summarize almost any book which is remarkable. Toda
From: Gillian Densmore
Date: 2/28/23 1:47 AM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday
Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re:
[FRIAM] Magic Harry Potter mirrors or more? Transformer architecture works
because it's cybertronian technology. And is so advanced as to be almost
Terrence Sejnowski argues that the new AI super chatbots are like a magic Harry
Potter mirror that tells the user what he wants to hear: "When people discover
the mirror, it seems to provide truth and understanding. But it does not. It
shows the deep-seated desires of anyone who stares into it".
Sometimes it get details wrong. In this case it was amusing to me, because it
insisted on being right although it was clearly wrong. Unless there is really a
paper of that name elsewhere.The version Microsoft uses in Bing went completely
awry when a NY Times journalist told it about Carl Jung's
Me: Do you know Victor Hugo?ChatGPT: Yes, Victor Hugo was a famous French poet,
novelist, and dramatist who lived in the 19th century. He is widely regarded as
one of the most important and influential writers of his time and is best known
for his novels, including Les Misérables and The Hunchba
Me: Do you know philosopher Miguel de Unamuno?ChatGPT: Yes, Miguel de Unamuno
(1864-1936) was a Spanish philosopher, writer, and poet, and is considered one
of the most important Spanish intellectuals of the 20th century. He is best
known for his work on existentialism and his emphasis on the im
fish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM]
ChatGPT knows FRIAM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit#Lying_and_bullshitOn 2/21/23 13:20,
thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote:> Stunning! How do you know if ChatCBT is lying;
it’s steely lips are moving.> > Nick> > *From:* Friam
*On Behalf Of *Joche
Me: Do you know the FRIAM group in Santa Fe?ChatGPT: Yes, I'm aware of the
FRIAM group in Santa Fe. FRIAM (Focusing Research on Infinite Automated Models)
is a research group located at the Santa Fe Institute, a renowned research
center dedicated to the study of complex systems. FRIAM is a group
agnificent-rebels-by-andrea-wulf/-J.
Original message From: Nicholas Thompson
Date: 2/17/23 11:53 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday
Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re:
[FRIAM] Thuram still happening? Thanks, Jochen. I am on it. NOn Thu, Feb 16,
2023 at 10:52 AM Jo
A bit late to the party but here are my two cents about Dave's fundamental 6
questions:1) Is an *Experience* a whole or a composite? Rather a composite
because a perception needs a perceiver which has always a subjective viewpoint.
This includes a rating if the perceived object or action is good
It reminds me of this book:The Zoologist's Guide to the
Galaxyhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646643/the-zoologists-guide-to-the-galaxy-by-arik-kershenbaum/-J.
Original message From: Nicholas Thompson
Date: 2/16/23 10:22 AM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday
Morning Applied
Interesting article. I have found this link to "GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy" on
Hacker Newshttps://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/It is similar to nanoGPT
and minGPT from Andrej Karpathy, who has joined OpenAI again
recentlyhttps://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPTThe secret is apparently not to use
: Friam On Behalf Of
Jochen Fromm
Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2023 4:38 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] Datasets as Experience
Would a CV of a large language model contain all the datasets it has seen? As
adaptive agents of our selfish genes we are all
penAI will present this year. -J.
Original message From: Jochen Fromm Date:
2/5/23 1:38 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group Subject: [FRIAM] Datasets as Experience Would a CV of
a large language model contain all the datasets it has seen? As adapt
Would a CV of a large language model contain all the datasets it has seen? As
adaptive agents of our selfish genes we are all trained on slightly different
datasets. A Spanish speaker is a person trained on a Spanish dataset. An
Italian speaker is a trained on an Italian dataset, etc. Speakers o
Before dropping
into full gaslighting mode..
*From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Jochen Fromm
*Sent:* Thursday, February 2, 2023 12:21 PM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT is not very smart...
It is remarkable that it is able to understand texts to t
It is remarkable that it is able to understand texts to this degree at all. And
it is just as stubborn and stupid as we are, isn't it? What if we are large
language models ourselves? :-/I've asked it the same question:Question: how
many states in the united states have four letter names?ChatGPT:
Evocative triggers sound a bit like the concept of a sign stimulus. A sign
stimulus in biology, ethology and zoology is a stimulus that serves to start
complicated reflex behavior. In German we have the Word "Schlüsselreiz"
(literally key-stimulus) for it, coined by zoologist Konrad Lorenz
(190
--- Original message From: Steve Smith Date:
1/25/23 12:41 AM (GMT+01:00) To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM]
Turning Psychology into a Social Science On 1/24/23 3:55 PM, Jochen Fromm
wrote:> I am currently browsing the millions of books in the Berlin state >
library. Th
I am currently browsing the millions of books in the Berlin state library. They
have so many books that they are a "closed stack" library where you have to
order every book you want to read (unlike most open-stack university
libraries). One of the books I have stumbled upon today is named "Turni
The buzz about chatGPT has apparently convinced Microsoft to invest $10 billion
(!) in OpenAI. It looks like a new arms race between Google, Microsoft and Meta
is emerging. Who will create the first self-aware AI by connecting such a large
language model to the
world?https://www.cnbc.com/2023/0
I have finished a number of Coursera courses recently, including "Deep Learning
& Neural Networks with Keras" which was ok but not great. The problems with
deep learning are* to achieve impressive results like chatGPT from OpenAi or
LaMDA from Goggle you need to spend millions on hardware * only
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