I mean, isn't the whole khan academy approach "we know better how to teach everything"? It's not surprising that they'd think they have more enlightened prompts than anyone else.
They had really cool math videos and got given too much money, that's about the story.
On one hand I will grow old knowing I'll always have a job because a lot of kids never will have researched anything in their lives and won't know how to deal with anything an LLM can't solve. On the other hand between this and most kids having had a 2 year covid gap in their learning, who the heck is going to pay my retirement and be my doctor when I'm old?
When I was young 20-30 years ago older people were saying that the Internet would make us dumb. Why learn anything when information is always readily available one search request away? Videogames were supposed to make me a blood-thirsty maniac, and don't even get me started on readily available porn. "Kids these days are lazy and don't want to learn" is one of the oldest memes in human history, with documented use going almost as far back as writing itself.
The flipside of that take is that if you listened to technologists, then educational TV/CD-ROMs/laptops/the internet/tablets/educational games/digital blackboards/MOOCs/etc. were going to completely revolutionize education - but looking at the evidence, it doesn't seem like students have gained much at all from any of it.
I remember an educator ranting to me a long time ago that the only data-proven ways to meaningfully improve educational outcomes was to reduce classroom size and make sure kids got enough sleep + fed well enough, everything else was just a waste of time.
From all my years of schooling one of the biggest factors is the combination of level of interest from the student, with parent involvement following that, once you cross the basic threshold of stable home with regular sleep and food. Some kids don't care and even perfect parents won't matter, but disinterested parents also drag a bunch of kids down.
There has been a measurable and noticeable drop in attainment starting with smartphones entering the classroom, supercharged by COVID chaos, and finally with AI cheating being just the latest assault on learning.
Ask teachers that have been teaching for 10 years. Ask the professors how today's kids are different than the ones of yesteryear.
The move to de-tech the classroom will eventually help out I expect, but keeping kids (and adults!!!) from using cognitive shortcuts so they can develop their own sense of what's reasonable instead of taking information from a bought-and-paid-for oracle is going to remain a problem.
If lawmakers understood even an iota of technology they'd be trying to legislate using your ID card to upload npm dependencies with more than 10k downloads instead of for watching porn.
It really does make you wonder why all the models seem to require that. In principle, it shouldn't be a property of LLMs, and lol no it's not an "emergent property".
Post-training and "human preference" according to "data". Don't know a single developer who use these tools for work who prefer that though, but also don't know anyone who use LLMs a lot just "for fun" either, might just be vastly different preferences between the two userbases.
LLM are a text prediction engine. Starting the prompt with “you are a helpful assistant” help make subsequent text prediction more in line of that of a helpful assistant.
Smart people cannot predict things by 'research'. "Will the US strike Iran by X date" going from 20% likelihood to 80%+ within hours points simply to insiders.
You can do research to know the US would strike, there's no other point in moving multiple carriers over to somewhere. But exactly WHEN is not researchable. This applies to most other bets. So lets stop pretending there's anything more than 2 cohorts, insiders and degenerate gamblers.
It's an empirical fact that smart people can predict things by doing research. See Tetlock's book Superforecasting.
I've been doing it profitably myself for almost 10 years now. I have zero special inside knowledge, and no access to any other non-public information.
> Will the US strike Iran by X date
Last year I did think the market for a strike on Iran was significantly underpriced given the information and conditions within a specific frame of time.
I don't think every smart person can just pop into prediction markets and print money, but I know many smart people who are long-term winners. I also don't try to knock people as degenerate when they have genuine talent.
You haven't been profitable for 10 years on prediction markets and you being profitable doesn't mean anything in regards to insiders or the rigging of a market.
I know you have a whole narrative going but there's gotta be millions of "make my picture look analog" filters, that was the whole premise of Instagram, you can get specific effects for pictures to look like all kinds of specific cameras, so mentioning VHS like esthetics as something that doesn't exist is very strange.
But that was a fad with the purpose of tentatively hiding the poor quality of the photos taken using smartphones of that era.
Nowadays default filtering is that everybody crank saturation and vibrance way too high so that it looks good when looked on a small screen full of fingerprints and a scratched screen protectors, under the sunlight. Same way music is dynamically overcompressed because the baseline is it need to still sound half decent on hostile noisy environments with crappy speakers/headphone.
I'm saying the things mentioned exist and gave example of one of the most popular consumer applications in the whole world already offering an entry level version of the same feature. Since that's what most people know about.
You have all those features already in professional photo software already as well. DaVinci is cool but it doesn't unlock anything like "make my photo look like VHS" that hasn't existed for decades by now.
Is there even a working definition of what a "filter" is in Instagram, or mobile photo editors targetting social media users (which is approximately all of the mobile photo editors), beyond "a script that fucks up your photo in some trivial but also undocumented ways"?
I'm yet to see a filter that makes your photo look like taken from a specific camera (old or otherwise). Smearing colors and sticking a frame that imitates camera film border does not count.
I cant find the original source of why I know this but I know the original Instagram filters were trying to emulate specific looks from specific analog cameras and expired film.
Smearing colors for example or weird blue / purple overlays is what you get when you shoot expired film.
There’s literally no concrete details in this; other than that they were inspired by the lomo cameras… Do you know what a 3D LUT is? Or color grading at all?
But that difference atm is the difference between it being OK on its own with a team of subagents given good enough feedback / review mechanisms or having to babysit it prompt by prompt.
By the time gemma6 allows you to do the above the proprietary models supposedly will already be on the next step change. It just depends if you need to ride the bleeding edge but specially because it's "intelligence", there's an obvious advantage in using the best version and it's easy to hype it up and generate fomo.
> But that difference atm is the difference between it being OK on its own with a team of subagents given good enough feedback
Do people actually build meaningful things like that?
It's basically impossible to leave any AI agent unsupervised, even with an amazing harness (which is incredibly hard to build). The code slowly rots and drifts over time if not fully reviewed and refactored constantly.
Even if teams of agents working almost fully autonomously were reliable from a functional perspective (they would build a functional product), the end product would have ever increasing chaos structurally over time.
It does something: the people who pay for the TV rights threaten the league or whoever if they don’t try to push for this type of BS. It’s not about whether it’s actually effective at stopping those who do pirate. It’s about placating whatever media conglomerate paid €XXX million for those TV rights.
They had really cool math videos and got given too much money, that's about the story.
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