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OpenAI Codex… Tech Unemployment Forthcoming?

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Duck-like halford rehab
  11/27/21
not even close
Bossy exciting garrison gaping
  11/27/21
Why not?
Duck-like halford rehab
  11/27/21
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08267 https://arxiv.org/abs/2111...
laughsome opaque church
  11/27/21
I fail to see how the implication you draw follows.
anal aggressive hairy legs clown
  11/27/21
it's just repurposed GPT-3, fine-tuned for code generation o...
laughsome opaque church
  11/27/21
Your conclusion seems to be about "meta-learning" ...
anal aggressive hairy legs clown
  11/27/21
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Naked frum kitchen
  11/27/21
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overrated locale
  11/27/21
highest number of H1B visas in decades. odd case
very tactful marvelous ape
  11/27/21
The ideal situation for tech companies is high supply and lo...
out-of-control partner
  11/27/21
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amber useless box office
  07/08/26
i've heard this shit often gives retarded suggestions even f...
wonderful hunting ground
  11/27/21
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Ivory pozpig station
  07/08/26
lol
Zombie-like Personal Credit Line
  07/08/26


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Date: November 27th, 2021 4:34 PM
Author: Duck-like halford rehab



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Date: November 27th, 2021 4:34 PM
Author: Bossy exciting garrison gaping

not even close

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Date: November 27th, 2021 4:40 PM
Author: Duck-like halford rehab

Why not?

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Date: November 27th, 2021 4:44 PM
Author: laughsome opaque church

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08267

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08171

So basically with a little prompt engineering Codex can solve college level probability and linear algebra problems. Codex won't directly or immediately cause tech unemployment. that's not the point anyway. the implication of it is that the neural network scaling hypothesis is true and that NNs, when of sufficiently large size and trained on a wide range of experiences, start meta-learning. no need to study the brain in detail to figure out what the neocortex is doing and how to replicate it in silicon - just train NNs on large datasets and the neural networks will meta-learn powerful algorithms that generalize.

timelines to AGI are increasingly short.

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Date: November 27th, 2021 5:03 PM
Author: anal aggressive hairy legs clown

I fail to see how the implication you draw follows.

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Date: November 27th, 2021 5:16 PM
Author: laughsome opaque church

it's just repurposed GPT-3, fine-tuned for code generation on another dataset. the code generation capabilities are one part of the picture here. the same model has very impressive language comprehension and generation capabilities considering its architectural simplicity. the coding capabilities are more evidence that the model can be pushed to do many things with appropriate prompt engineering.

not to mention transformers are also work for image generation, reinforcement learning, image recognition, etc. if we were having to create highly specific models to solve certain tasks, that would be evidence in favor of the view that AGI will require substantial engineering effort. we are seeing the exact opposite. even a simple highly regularized MLP can accomplish what a transformer can when trained on enough data.

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Date: November 27th, 2021 5:28 PM
Author: anal aggressive hairy legs clown

Your conclusion seems to be about "meta-learning" from "large datasets", presumably leading to some sort of "foom" scenario, but the examples you've given are of narrowly-circumscribed problems for which there are large datasets available. So, I am having a hard time following how your conclusion follows from your premises. Wouldn't the more modest conclusion be that, in areas with sufficient data and amenable to production of large amounts of data and which are otherwise tractable, AI will prove useful? I don't see any hint of universal generalization.

What is the missing piece that's been filled in that answers questions like those raised by Pearl http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r475.pdf

Jordan https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/wot7mkc1/release/9

or Hanson https://spectrum.ieee.org/economics-of-the-singularity

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Date: November 27th, 2021 9:40 PM
Author: Naked frum kitchen



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Date: November 27th, 2021 8:27 PM
Author: overrated locale



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Date: November 27th, 2021 4:35 PM
Author: very tactful marvelous ape

highest number of H1B visas in decades. odd case

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Date: November 27th, 2021 5:08 PM
Author: out-of-control partner

The ideal situation for tech companies is high supply and low demand. High number of H1Bs doesn't mean demand won't plummet

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Date: July 8th, 2026 3:34 PM
Author: amber useless box office



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Date: November 27th, 2021 9:37 PM
Author: wonderful hunting ground

i've heard this shit often gives retarded suggestions even for javascript which you would think is a language with a lot of examples to learn from

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4973764&forum_id=2...id..#43519765)



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Date: July 8th, 2026 3:28 PM
Author: Ivory pozpig station



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Date: July 8th, 2026 3:30 PM
Author: Zombie-like Personal Credit Line

lol

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