Having read the article and then the actual report from the Sakana team. Essentially, they’re letting their LLM perform research by allowing it to modify itself. The increased timeouts and self-referential calls appear to be the LLM trying to get around the research team’s guardrails on it. Not because it’s become aware or anything like that, but because its code was timing out and that was the least effort way to beat the timeout. It does handily prove that LLMs shouldn’t be the one steering any code base, because they don’t give a shit about parameters or requirements. And giving an LLM the ability to modify its own code will lead to disaster in any setting that isn’t highly controlled like this.

Listen, I’ve been saying for a while that LLMs are a dead end towards any useful AI, and the fact that an AI Research team has turned to an LLM to try and find more avenues to explore feels like the nail in that coffin.

Here’s the time that Scout managed to get himself locked inside a room in the governor’s mansion and the fire department needed to come rescue him. https://www.today.com/pets/minnesota-governor-dog-locked-bedroom-rcna122484

Thinking like that doesn’t make the most precipitous stock market since the roaring 20s. Gotta go bigger till the whole thing collapses!

It’s semi-autonomous, not remote controlled

Don’t bring attention to their privilege! They just want to go back to being blissfully ignorant! /s

World of Warcraft 2 announced. World of Warcraft to be canceled (this is joke… I hope)

Carbon offsets? Yes indeed. The easiest, most useless way to reach carbon neutral.

Yeah, the early primaries really do benefit establishment democrats, and it seemingly painted a damning picture for Bernie. I think if we had synchronized primaries, this benefit would be much smaller and Bernie would’ve had a significant shot.

COPD fucking sucks, my dude. Living longer isn’t the goal, living comfortably is and being unable to breathe all the time is the worst.

Everyone say it with me: Cops are the only source of ethical bacon /j

Yeah! And that’s only a privilege for white oligarchs! /s

It’s not in an orbit. Well, it technically is, but it moved far enough away that that orbit no longer intersects with the solar system’s SOI. That was the whole point of the voyager probes, to go out into deep space. That’s why we sent them out with our mix tapes

Punks have outstanding morals.

It also doesn’t say that. It says that Private firms are seeing a slowing of increasing rents, a further slowdown than the Feds are showing in the consumer price index. Prices are still going up, faster than before the pandemic, but not quite as fast as the fed shows them currently rising.

With the amount of people who are either lying or genuinely can’t tell when images are made by AI… I’m scared

Oh hey! Capitalism can’t help but make weapons. Who’d’ve guessed?

No worries, I agree that it’s annoying. But it’s the algorithm that makes that all but inevitable, it’s not a failure of any individual or group of individuals. It’s the failure of capitalism, tbh.

I’m neurodivergent, so I’m already parsing language in a strange way. So, when I come across this type of contradictory statements, I like to point them out.

“These people used as much visual manipulation as they could cram into this photo/title to get people to click on it. It’s the fault of those being manipulated that it’s being clicked on”

Busuu is fantastic. Gets you to think through the words and gets your feet wet with hiragana/ katakana right away.

The chilling effect it would have on speech in the meantime is the whole point.