Michael Schaffner

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I began to walk, fearing a hundred things that would never harm me and utterly ignorant of the real risks I ran.

Gene Wolfe • The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'

Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis

So far, over the past 2 years, I have invested more time trying to make genAI work for me than what genAI has saved me. Maybe by a 2-3x factor. But I will keep trying.

François Chollet

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On the Use of AI

Francois here speaks to coding, but this estimate mirrors my experience with non-coding tasks.

rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it

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Quotes on Models and Their Uses

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A new paper in Nature found that you cannot, in fact, train AIs on AI-generated data and expect them to continue improving. What happens is actually that the model collapses and ends up producing nonsense.

Crémieux

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On the Use of AI

Nature paper demonstrates that training AI on AI-generated data eventually produces nonsense (as expected?).