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voice cloning is a tool, it is not necessarily evil, even though the scenarios it can be used for nefarious purposes outnumber the legitimate ones.

is the legit ones just like... putting carrie fisher in star wars?

usually people bring up anyone who is losing physical control of their voice faculties, so they can have a synthetic voice that matches their natural voice

As an example of this, Sarah Langs uses a synthesized voice due to the progression of her ALS symptoms.

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


The iPhone has a built in voice cloner hidden in the accessibility settings for exactly this use-case: creating a backup of your voice in case you need it in the future.

Yeah, but its only available for english IIRC.

That is the RL training cost only. Their announcement blog mentions this: https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6#scaling-rl-fully-open-sour...

Unsurprisingly, mammals (not just humans) also fear death and are very distressed when being lead to slaughter and seeing their peers go down before them.

Ants don't walk in line over the stove. It may not be fear, but there is something hardwired that tells them not too, or they would be extinct long ago

Applies to all living organisms


Speaking of ants having a survival instinct, ant death spirals are a thing. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill

I think it is not unlike a crush involving lots of humans in a confined space.

We see roundworms with decentralized nervous systems show chemical traces of fear, so it is actually hardwired deep in organisms and has been there a very, very long time. Fear is just too useful as a survival mechanism.

Applies to every living thing with a limbic system. So yes, that steak or chicken nuggets...

How? Did limbic system evolve as "fear of death" or "peer recognition and perception of shared fate" system?

(Not doubting the chicken nuggets, just wondering about the lower/simpler end of the scale.)


>"peer recognition and perception of shared fate"

While plants may not fear in the manner that we do, they can chemically signal when one becomes damaged or stressed and cause physiological changes in plants that are not sharing the same conditions.


I mean, it wouldn’t surprise me if it is a strong selector for evolutionary fitness, which it probably is.

Certain species go the other way probably and become more like a super organism but mammals seem quite individualized compared to ants for example.


to be fair the majority of the statements that site mocks are not about bitcoin being dead but being a ponzi scheme, evil, hard to use by normal people, silly, a risky investment etc.

All are criticism that can be evaluated on their own but it's irrelevant how much bitcoin grew since they were made.


Not entirely joking but group teaching: fire up multiple AIs. Hear live talking in a foreign language, chip in when you want, they adapt to your level. Lack of human contact and alienation are real problems at all ages, but that does not mean current chatbots are not excellent teachers, especially in language learning when you do not even need a curriculum as such, just talk/read/write as much as you can, it's all text.


It’s not really about the number of people, it’s about having a diversity of individuals, interests, topics of discussion, people making different type of mistakes, different accents and pace, etc

It is not conspiracy theory. Optimizing for profit (which includes not crossing regulators/governments) is a good enough explanation usually. Big (and most small) companies put profit above anything else, so this is usually the right angle to approach anything they do.


maybe that person was not awake to comment on yesterday's post? You're trying to force the reality to match your preexisting conclusion.


Google's Gemma models are usually celebrated, so were the llamas. If Meta releases Muse Spark it will also be a good thing. If Anthropic released a great open weight model I am sure that post won't be steered towards controversy and anti-AI sentiment.

It so happens Chinese companies are more friendly towards open weights, autonomy and freedom that most US based ones. Who would have guessed?


it should be able to solve some of the five left Millenium Prize problems then in a few weeks.


Why in weeks, not months or years?


Probably will solve a couple more at least in the coming year , no ? Why wouldn't it ?


OpenAI should put their internal model to solve the rest of Millenium Prize problems too (assuming their difficulty is in the same ballpark). That would be a proof the model did it without using existing work on the problem.


Though they claim the contrary, it looks that OpenAI would get nowhere if it did not have information about a recent breakthrough.


Comment that will age poorly


Enlighten us?


Because AI will end everybody's lifetimes, I think


>assuming their difficulty is in the same ballpark

It is not. Many mathematicians have said that they don't expect to see solutions to the other 5 problems in their lifetimes.

Of course, AI might advance fast enough that the "in their lifetimes" part ends up wrong, but there is a considerable gap to the other problems. We have barely any idea of how to even get started on most of them.


They did do this, but it seems that Navier-Stokes is the only one that was successful (unless, for some strange reason, they have proofs for the other problems but haven’t released them yet).


>They did do this, but it seems that Navier-Stokes is the only one that was successful

How convenient that they could solve the only problem where researchers have done most of the legwork already. What a coincidence. And the timing, perfect.


LLMs seem to be much better at finding counterexamples than other types of proof. It’s unlikely the other millennium problems will be solved with counter examples


I haven't been keeping up with all the math proofs. Does anyone know if there have been any LLM proofs that are NOT counterexamples?


likely there are some, the question if its "millennial" type problems.

Also, lots of hype around "millennial" grading, it is kinda funny if we solve all "millennial" problems in first 30 yeas of millenia.


Finding counter examples might be easier, but AI's also useful for assisting in creating proofs. For example, Anthropic just published a formalization of Fermat's last theorem a few days ago, something that human researchers have been working on for decades.


why not just solve world hunger while we're blowing smoke.,


That's solved, but the solution is not applied yet


that's like telling people you've solve long extant math equations.

Applicationis the hard part.


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