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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 1d

My family used to CBS all the time, in fact I’m a third-gen CBS’er

Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 5d

Kind of ridiculously good. It fell apart on the butterfly, the only other one that I tried, but it got a good start with an X for the body and two B's for the wings.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 5d

It's just not great at ascii art

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 6d

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 6d

I asked chatgpt 5 this and this is what it did:

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 6d

It's a really cool idea and result. Very surprising!

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Jorge Morales @jorge-morales.bsky.social · 7d

Imagine an apple 🍎. Is your mental image more like a picture or more like a thought? In a new preprint led by Morgan McCarty—our lab's wonderful RA—we develop a new approach to this old cognitive science question and find that LLMs excel at tasks thought to be solvable only via visual imagery. 🧵

Artificial Phantasia: Evidence for Propositional Reasoning-Based Mental Imagery in Large Language Models

This study offers a novel approach for benchmarking complex cognitive behavior in artificial systems. Almost universally, Large Language Models (LLMs) perform best on tasks which may be included in th...

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 6d

My god. You guys did it, you actually did something interesting with LLMs.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 13d

Yes…that’s good.

Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 13d

(although I often wonder…what is this adding?)

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 13d

Yes! And I have no problem with the descriptive model approach.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 13d

I’m out of ideas. Let’s fit a drift diffusion model and then put weird interpretations on the parameters. I love being so theory driven!

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 15d

We’re at a 8 out of 10 on the Brawndo It’s What Plants Crave scale of stupid

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 18d

I didn’t really do much to merit it. I’m just a bumpkin really. A yokel! A total nobody. I just read voraciously and liked computers. Literally that’s it. I wasn’t even top 1% at my awful semi-rural public high school. But I ended up getting to go to Harvard and get a PhD.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 19d

this was for three completely different papers I’m action editor for

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 19d

Much appreciated Greg!

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 19d

😵‍💫

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 22d

Ok but I can be looking at my phone the entire time, right?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 23

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · Aug 21

excuse me what?

should i give a random chrome extension all the power to destroy my life

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · Aug 7

I don’t get it was he hoping for 7 demons

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · Aug 2

If you hate it though, it can be quite useful!

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · Aug 2

If you don’t have suspicion and contempt bordering on hatred for it, you have no business interacting with “AI.” There’s nothing for you there. Move on.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · Jul 30

Do you have his mobile number so we can text him?

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · Jul 30

Gather round children, let me tell you the tale of the Dot Com Boom. Long before the great glass slabs, when the drives clicky-clacked….

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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round | TechCrunch

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says that her new startup, Thinking Machines Lab, was valued at $12 billion in its seed round.

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