Growing up we heard, ad nauseam, that "wikipedia is not a reliable source". People just need to state the same thing about LLMs- they aren't reliable, but can potentially point you to primary sources that -are- reliable. Once the shininess of the new toy wears off, people will adjust.
Encyclopedias – including Wikipedia – are not acceptable sources for college-level work certainly. They are tertiary literature, which can provide an overview to someone trying to get a toehold into a subject, and which can hopefully point them toward primary and secondary sources. But tertiary sources are not typically allowable citations for college research.
Okay, I can't defend that because in reality I'm talking purely from my subjective experience. I will say that in my experience it isn't close at all. However, I will also say that a lot of the things that chatgpt gets wrong for me, wikipedia just won't contain at all, but then chatgpt seeming confident when it's wrong is basically the whole problem.
One way of looking at it is that Wikipedia has a transparent and auditable way of correcting and updating false information, which makes it inherently more reliable and trustworthy than tensor weights finetuned by unreproducible human feedback.
> Wikipedia has well documented and explored issues related to vandalism, bias, and misinformation.
Last I read about this, the error rate in Wikipedia was actually lower than in the Encyclopedia Britannica, by a measurable amount.
This was a while back, and admittedly it only counted articles where there was an equivalent article in both (which probably gives a better picture of Wikipedia, as those kinds of “boring” articles have less vandalism…) but it’s not immediately a given that Wikipedia is just objectively bad at being accurate.
Well even before Wikipedia… remember calculators being banned? I think you’re right, we will adjust. Curriculum development will start to include new checkpoints and controls.
And the LLMs are still improving at a brisk rate. If they were outperforming teachers by the end of the decade that'd be well within expectations. Anyone pretending that human authority figures routinely get things right is defining correctness using circular logic.
Current LLMs are lacking introspection, plausibility checking, consulting external sources, and belief updating in the presence of new evidence. All of these you'd need to replace human teachers and it's not clear that the next token prediction paradigm can ever emulate these features reliably. So "outperforming teachers", while not impossible, is a very optimistic expectation as it requires more than mere improvement on existing methodology.
Maybe I was particularly unfortunate, but none of my human teachers had any of those features. There was one inviolable source of truth in my classrooms - the examination syllabus and the accompanying textbook.
That's sad. Probably you were particularly unfortunate. Though i definitely do know people who echo your sentiment. I'm wondering at what level of education this occurred? A 2nd grade teacher requires a different set of introspection capabilities than a high school calculus teacher than a college world history class. Possibly I'm particularly fortunate but at all levels i have at least had experienced with teachers that had the proper introspection. Emotional introspection and reflection in grade school and high school. And academic introspection and curiosity in high school and college. Certainly there are some bad eggs, but my small state school was rife with professors there for the love of learning. Our learning and theirs.
Something I've thought a lot while playing backgammon locally is "I wish there was a site like lichess, but for backgammon"... so kudos for going out and starting your own! Are there any plans for post-game analysis?
There seems to be an issue with the login/signup form, as it doesn't pull up the native keyboard for my phone, but some random keyboard.
I got a feeling that this may be a cultural aspect there too:
Backgammon is not considered "sophisticated," I think.
I'm from Greece (I don't play backgammon myself, though), and backgammon (tavli) is extremely popular but widely considered "a game for the masses." It is played mostly in tavernas and old-style coffee shops, and each game has a social aspect, too. People discussing (sometimes shouting and finger-pointing "no! You should have done this or that! Ah! just get up and let me play, you're a noob!"
I can't but laugh thinking who would be the GMHikaru or GothamChess of tavli :D :D
Edit: This can be misinterpreted. I don't play tavli not because is not considered sophisticated, I just find the rules confusing for certain setups.
Interesting, I've seen the opposite. In the US it's hardly played at all, nowhere near something like chess or poker, but a large (relative) percentage of the play that happens is for money, often at absolute nosebleed stakes.
After I learned backgammon from my parents, I also wonder why almost no one plays it in the US compared to chess. Seems mostly European and Middle Eastern folks play it (my parents are from Romania).
I like it because it's not as serious as chess, at least when it's not played for money. Just roll and go. I always carry a portable set with me, made by sondergut.
Backgammon is arguably a much better game for casual play. In Chess, unless the skill levels are pretty close, one player (the stronger one) is going to win almost every game, and many of the non-wins will be draws.
Backgammon has just about the perfect amount of RNG injected into it... weaker players can win, especially a single point (backgammon is typically played to a point target.. a game is normally worth 1 point (except for a few edge cases where one player loses very badly), but there is a doubling cube that starts in the middle. At their turn either played can pick up the cube and double, at which point their opponent can either accept, and play for double points, or resign for the _original_ stake. The cube is then handed to the acceptor, and then he can redouble later, etc, etc.
It's not that you can't play chess in cafes (I've also done that), but chess is more complex and is -perceived- to be much more complex and serious.
Backgammon has dice rolls and less complex strategy, so it's nicer to play over coffee and chatting. Rolling doubles also gives potential for comeback swings so it can be fun for spectators too.
Thanks. Yes, I hope to support analyzing games in the future. I experimented with interfacing with gnubg to accomplish this, and hit a brick wall, as gnubg really isn't designed for computers to use it. From what I can tell, I would need to scrape the terminal output of gnubg to do this programmatically. I haven't found any open source engines that seem easier to interface with, if anyone knows of one, please share.
The internal keyboard is shown rather than the device keyboard because on many devices, using the device keyboard does not work. It either doesn't show at all, or it is shown but key input is not registered. I hope that the game engine powering bgammon.org adds support for using device keyboards soon, and will be glad to revert to using device keyboard as soon as possible.
You mean the Korean netizen culture where celebrities routinely kill themselves? Where people not only still bully, but rapists can sue their victims for defamation and win?
I wish this project well but the main problem here is the network effect. Pretty much everyone I know is on meetup, and if they're not, they're on facebook. The experience isn't great but good luck getting anyone to sign up to a new random site. It's also very risky for people hosting events to switch over.
So I would focus on that more than any technical features other than group/event discovery.
Respecting human rights and self-autonomy is not the same thing as removing rights from people to benefit the companies/government and I wish people would stop arguing in bad faith that they're remotely similar.
It is a problem when someone wants 'autonomy' in order to enforce reduced 'right's on others, or another way, my 'autonomy' is greater than your 'autonomy'.
So, lets say I'm commanded by my god to enforce that you must have kids. And I get enough people together to secede, in order to enforce these beliefs onto others. Then the people caught in this situation do have rights taken away.
Or, other people cross dressing offends me, thus I should have the right to pass laws to prevent them doing that, my 'autonomy' outweighs theirs.
It does get confusing, when some groups say they want 'autonomy' over their body when it comes to vaccines, but when it comes to 'autonomy' over having kids, suddenly it is a metaphysical law from god that can't be compromised.
Both are cases of bodily 'autonomy', and one group believes since it is a law from god, that it should be enforced onto others by government laws, which is really taking rights away.
When the group that thinks your 'autonomy' is an affront to their god, and you become the problem to be 'removed', and they are now running the government, now the government is taking away rights and infringing on the individual's 'autonomy'.
If you run the above docker command, which is directly from the docs, it copies everything inside of your current working directory. Not just PHP files.
That docker command isn't "copying" anything; it's mounting, and I really hope people aren't doing that in production. There's a separate section on running in production.
There is something deeply, viscerally upsetting about watching creative objects get destroyed by an industrial machine. I understand what they were going for, but I can't believe this got greenlighted.
The symbolism of physically destroying a handmade instrument or a precision-made item like a camera lens is unbelievably disgusting. On top of that, the current era we're in has artists fearing for the future as generative AI (which is trained on stolen artwork by humans) is coming to replace their livelihood.
All I can do is shake my head and wonder why tech people have such utter contempt and disdain for artists.
