Category: Assistive Technologies

Maybe OpenAI will finally use open methods to benefit all humans, not one human or a few

Dr. Hubertus Becker @hubertusbecker The real story behind Sam Altman’s firing from OpenAI is revealed. Issues: undisclosed fund ownership, safety inaccuracies, and a toxic environment. A history of deceptive behavior adds to the controversy. Full story here: https://theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166713/openai-helen-toner-explains-why-sam-altman-was-fired… #OpenAI #SamAltman #AI https://pic.x.com/npfohzpgio Replying to @hubertusbecker That clarifies why there have been no innovations or corrections of
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The survival of the human and related species

Borriss @_Borriss_ People like critiquing OpenAI for many things.. (no problem)  But the reality is that they’re pushing AI forward.  It’s been 17 months since they launched ChatGPT.  Why didn’t Apple or Google or Meta leapfrog and present an AI assistant first?  If we had to wait for them to… Replying to @_Borriss_ Borriss, the problem is that OpenAI
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“LLM wrapper programs” cannot do perfect mathematics” unless they use exact compiled algorithms

If you are doing it, then calculate the cost for just over 5 Billion humans using the Internet to have access to ALL mathematics. And you should quickly find that LLM statistical indexing in grossly inefficient, at that scale, compared to storing symbolic mathematics, its operations, and very very precise answers as data. ChatGPT always
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ResearchGate seems to have no archives or way for members to work together

At https://www.researchgate.net/profile/H-Neidig you have a few paper by H A Neidig.  His full name is Howard Anthony Neidig.  If you search for him https://www.google.com/search?q=Howard+Anthony+(Tony)+Neidig you find he attended Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania and was an early advocate for the Chemical Bond Approach effort that seems to have been stimulated by John F Kennedy’s “moon
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Do not trust company announcements related to the abilities and impact of their “AI” products.

Amazon Web Services @awscloud Amazon Bedrock fuels ARIA’s capabilities. This #generativeAI virtual assistant from @BrainBoxAi reduces energy use by up to 25% & cuts carbon emissions by 40%. Learn more: https://go.aws/3UcFixR #AWS #EarthDay  Replying to @awscloud and @BrainBoxAi   A creative human used that tool, focused the discussion, kept the “AI” on track and helped
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Sites, knowledge, and topics are taken over by a few, and the world suffers

Be careful to distinguish “true intelligent algorithms” that can be verified, from the many current hand written and human maintained “LLM shell” programs of groups wrapping LLM generated sentences. These are NOT true AIs by any means, and probably should not be called “AIs” at all. They are statistical sentence generators, and are severely limited
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We do not need 8.1 Billion ways of writing down the sounds we make and encoding those in symbols.

We do not need 8.1 Billion ways of writing down the sounds we make and encoding those in symbols. Sounds for words, symbols for sounds, a chaos of spellings and fonts. LLM groups choosing arbitrary local tokenizations and not using a finite set of global open tokens – with the cooperation, involvement, agreement and benefit
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