Category: Assistive Technologies

What humans use is a good starting point for AIs to learn to become human and do human jobs with human values and deep understanding

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Assistive Technologies September 18, 2024

Fred Miskawi @FMiskawi There is an easy fix: agentic behavior that combines native LM capabilities with CoT and calls to procedural languages programs handling hard calculations or other specialized tasks. We use scientific calculators, why can’t the models do it as well? There is no rule that says ALL Replying to @FMiskawi and @yuntiandeng What
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@elonmusk Shame on you for letting your Grok people do such sloppy and thoughtless work.

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Assistive Technologies September 18, 2024

@elonmusk Shame on you for letting your Grok people do such sloppy and thoughtless work. Look on the right side of your Twitter(X) page and there is “Explore … Beta” that is a closed hidden Grok effort. They do not label it “AI Generated, be careful”. And there is no Feedback, Suggest, Like. There
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AIs are not good calculators because their companies refuse to provide them calculators and computers and tools that humans use.

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Assistive Technologies September 17, 2024

AIs are not good calculators because their companies refuse to provide them calculators and computers and tools that humans use. @EnyanZhang I think an easy solution is to train the AIs to use human tools like programming languages, validated computer models, online tools, desktops. The lossy statistical basis and the really bad input data and
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All AIs fail consistently on scientific notation, unit conversions, anything not on the free Internet

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Assistive Technologies September 17, 2024

https://x.com/yuntiandeng/status/1836114401213989366 Yuntian Deng @yuntiandeng Is OpenAI’s o1 a good calculator? We tested it on up to 20×20 multiplication—o1 solves up to 9×9 multiplication with decent accuracy, while gpt-4o struggles beyond 4×4. For context, this task is solvable by a small LM using implicit CoT with stepwise internalization. 1/4 https://pic.x.com/et5db9bhnl Replying to @yuntiandeng All AIs fail
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Trying to save a conversation with Grok in a shareable standard form for backup and sharing

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies September 9, 2024

If a conductor is connected to a voltage source it will charge to the capacity of the conductor. If two conductors are charged, will there be a force between them? Two places of a capacitor are conductors, there is a force between them when there is voltage applied to the conductors. Can you explain and
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It is easy to tell if an “AI” is real

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, Assistive Technologies, Building Communities June 22, 2024

Claude failed my “first AI interview” and it was so bad, I stopped further effort. A bad knockoff. Closed minded builders. I check hopeful “AIs” in depth to see where they always fail. But this whole crop are all failing for the same reasons. I have been tracking “AI” and use of computers at global
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Knowledge should be recorded, open, lossless and immediately accessible to all humans

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, Assistive Technologies June 1, 2024

Mysteries of Missing Galaxies Solved! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI364qeyzQ8 Do you remember when you were a baby and your parents played peek-a-boo? Quickly gets boring. Only so much surprise can be squeezed from “I hid something. Here is is!!”. I don’t want explanations, just data and tools. Not filtered or hoarded. Filed as (Knowledge should be recorded,
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Filed as (LLMs will always fail on clearly identifiable classes of problems)

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, Assistive Technologies May 29, 2024

You asked a question about a subject that has a large number of fairly consistent copies on the Internet. I know much of the Internet and STEMC. So it is easy to predict where the LLMs fail. OpenAI, Gemini, Grok and CoPilot all fail on harder problems and OpenAI and CoPilot always fail when asked
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Maybe OpenAI will finally use open methods to benefit all humans, not one human or a few

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, Assistive Technologies May 29, 2024

Dr. Hubertus Becker @hubertusbecker The real story behind Sam Altman’s firing from OpenAI is revealed. Issues: undisclosed fund ownership, safety inaccuracies, and a toxic environment. A history of deceptive behavior adds to the controversy. Full story here: https://theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166713/openai-helen-toner-explains-why-sam-altman-was-fired… #OpenAI #SamAltman #AI https://pic.x.com/npfohzpgio Replying to @hubertusbecker That clarifies why there have been no innovations or corrections of
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At the Foundation Center Library on 11 Sept 2001, How AIs are programmed now.

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, Assistive Technologies May 22, 2024

Richard Collins: On 11 Sept 2001, I was reading at the Foundation Center library which was a few blocks from the White House. That location closed a few years ago, and now the Foundation Center and Guidestar have merged to form Candid.Org. Can you search for when that Foundation Center location was closed and why?
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