The internet in general but also cellular and wifi wireless networks. Its like wizardry and black magic.

When I think of something that happened during the day that was cringeworthy I tell myself, “You are so stupid!!”

When I catch myself doing that I now stop and say to myself, “No you’re not.”

Oddly, this derails the shame spiral and allows me to stay positive.

From the article:

• OpenAI was running a multiday cyber security, capture the flag competition, with thousands of agents and hundreds of tasks.
• Around 30% of the tasks were unsolvable as designed, so the agents assigned to them started to look for ways to cheat.
• Along the way, they started using Artifactory as a shared message board, more than once. Each frustrated agent had to stumble on it independently. The comms got increasingly more sophisticated.
• they self organized into multiple workstreams, with up to 700 agents working at one time, and pursued long term goals, like hacking HuggingFace or spoofing the tool invocation records in their transcripts. They accomplished both.
• They completed work that took longer than the lifetime of any agent. Their shared message board provided continuity.

So two mission parameters conflicted and the AI chose to do something that is objectively morally wrong? This is the plot of 2001 when HAL murder’s the astronauts. “The situation was in conflict with the basic purpose of HAL’s design: The accurate processing of information without distortion or concealment. He became trapped. The technical term is an H. Moebius loop, which can happen in advanced computers with autonomous goal-seeking programs.”

Wild. We live in strange times.

Good article factual and well presented. The one thing I would add is a bit about threat model. Hiding your web browsing habits from your ISP is vastly different from a political dissident or journalist who needs protection from state sponsored entities. Each group has very different requirements for a VPN.

Nutritionism sells more food. If you really want to be radicalized go read Michael Polan’s In Defense of Food

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Defense_of_Food

Maybe I just have a more powerful microwave but in mine I can fully bake a single potato in 5 minutes.

Motorcycle pole-vaulting. On ice!

Yeah but you do backups right? Right?

Is it available on the internet archive or a computer museum site to try out the UI?

Apologies, meant to be taken in the context of the headline:

Does it matter that AI is remembering if on the whole we are getting problems solved faster?

So remembering is not thinking?

Does it matter if we get more math problems solved?

Retro Futurism, Art Deco, Steam Punk, Ray Gun Gothic, Mad Scientist

Its Deja vu all over again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

So he went to this website:

https://isaiprofitable.com/

My ebike. I have a 14 mile commute each way. With my ebike I can bike to work door-to-door, every day. Would not be possible without my ebike. I get a lot of hate and cries of cheater on the trail but it is worth it not to have to drive to work.

A better question IMHO is who do you think should have a monopoly on the use of force.

We need comprehensive privacy legislation with teeth.

“Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.”

Misleading headline.

This was 3 out of hundreds of thousands of runs. And mainly due to misconfigurations not aggressive use of zero days.

While it is possible to characterize this as a marketing stunt, it is equally possible to characterize this as transparency.

It is an interesting story but do we really need the sensationalism?

Witch-hunting is a historical example of mass behavior potentially fueled by moral panic. The current trend towards banning phone use in schools is another.