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Wed Mar 15 06:00:02 EDT 2023 ======================================== Slept from ten to six-thirty without waking. Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. # Work * 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Weekly cloud foundations working group * 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ELMS planning * 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM Application dev forum # Home * [ ] play with text-based (Gemini?) D&D hex thing * [ ] work on CC 0e D&D reference rules * [ ] spell list (old to new) * [ ] monster list (old to new) * [ ] magic item list (old to new) * [ ] schedule dentist appointment * [ ] PenFed * [ ] transfer funds from old savings account (http://www.citizensbank.com/HSBC) * [ ] get backup credit card * [ ] money market? * [ ] schedule optometrist appointment * [ ] schedule AWS cert exam Read more of We Have Always Been Here. Rode the exercise bike for ten minutes in the morning. https://apnews.com/article/filibuster-transgender-gender-affirming-therapy-bill-nebraska-cavanaugh-b9018fd1bf72112ca984ff58679eda6d > She also spent that time railing against an unrelated bill that would outlaw gender-affirming therapies for those 18 and younger. It was the advancement of that bill out of committee that led Cavanaugh to promise three weeks ago to filibuster every bill that comes before the Legislature this year — even the ones she supports. > > “If this Legislature collectively decides that legislating hate against children is our priority, then I am going to make it painful — painful for everyone,” the Omaha married mother of three said. “I will burn the session to the ground over this bill.” > > True to her word, Cavanaugh has slowed the business of passing laws to a crawl by introducing amendment after amendment to every bill that makes it to the state Senate floor and taking up all eight debate hours allowed by the rules — even during the week she was suffering from strep throat. Wednesday marks the halfway point of this year’s 90-day session, and not a single bill will have passed thanks to Cavanaugh’s relentless filibustering. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/openai-announces-gpt-4-its-next-generation-ai-language-model/ > If it performs as claimed, GPT-4 potentially represents the opening of a new era in artificial intelligence. "It passes a simulated bar exam with a score around the top 10% of test takers," writes OpenAI in its announcement. "In contrast, GPT-3.5’s score was around the bottom 10%." > > AI models in the GPT series have been trained to predict the next token (a fragment of a word) in a sequence of tokens using a large body of text pulled largely from the Internet. During training, the neural network builds a statistical model that represents relationships between words and concepts. Over time, OpenAI has increased the size and complexity of each GPT model, which has resulted in generally better performance, model-over-model, compared to how a human would complete text in the same scenario, although it varies by task. > > As far as tasks go, GPT-4's performance is notable. As with its predecessors, it can follow complex instructions in natural language and generate technical or creative works, but it can do so with more depth: It supports generating and processing up to 32,768 tokens (around 25,000 words of text), which allows for much longer content creation or document analysis than previous models. > > As for its multimodal capabilities (which are still limited to a research preview), GPT-4 can analyze the content of multiple images and make sense of them, such as understanding a multi-image-sequence joke or extracting information from a diagram. Microsoft and Google have both been experimenting with similar multimodal capabilities recently. In particular, Microsoft thinks that a multimodal approach will be necessary to achieve what AI researchers call "artificial general intelligence," or AI that performs general tasks at the level of a human. > > OpenAI has stated that its goal is to develop AGI that can replace humans at any intellectual task, although GPT-4 is not there yet. Shortly after the GPT-4 announcement, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted, "It is still flawed, still limited, and it still seems more impressive on first use than it does after you spend more time with it." > > And it's true: GPT-4 is far from perfect. It still reflects biases in its training dataset, hallucinates (makes up plausible-sounding falsehoods), and could potentially generate misinformation or harmful advice. Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35130764 Washed laundry. Servings: grains 6/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 4/2, meat 4/3, nuts 0/0.5 Breakfast: carrots, banana, coffee, left-over pizza Lunch: salami wrap, tomatoes Afternoon snack: corn chips Dinner: sub

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