Part of the issue here is that you can look at something and think "oh yeah I understand that, it makes perfect sense!", but then completely fail to reproduce it yourself.
Yeah, I flew thru Eindhoven Airport in the Netherlands a few years ago, and I couldn't believe they let me through with water.
The security used something I would describe as out of an Iron Man film, they were zooming around a translucent 3D view of my backpack. (It was on an LCD display instead of hovering midair, but I was still impressed. But the fact they let me keep the water was even more amazing, hahah.)
> The security used something I would describe as out of an Iron Man film, they were zooming around a translucent 3D view of my backpack. (It was on an LCD display instead of hovering midair, but I was still impressed.
I just flew with two laptops in my backpack which I didn't have to take out for the first time (haven't flown in a while), with a custom PCB with a couple of vivaldi antennas sandwiched in between the laptops.
It was a real trip watching them view the three PCBs as a single stack, then automatically separate them out, and rotate them individually in 3D. The scanner threw some kind of warning and the operator asked me what the custom PCB was, so I had to explain to them it was a ground penetrating radar (that didn't go over well; I had to check the bag)
Tel Aviv has allowing this for quite some time (10 years?). I guess they update their security devices as soon as new technology becomes available.
They don't advertise it, I found out by accident, trying to empty my water bottle by drinking when a security person told me to just put it together with the rest of my stuff. I had no idea that was a thing and was pretty confused.
They’re multi wavelength CT. Basically whenever you see a 4:3 box with a “smiths” logo over the belt it’s going to be a pretty painless process (take nothing out except analog film)
You can do realtime 3D flythroughs on CT scans with open source viewers. If you've ever had one, get your DICOM data set and enjoy living in the future.
I've seen this too in the US, the newer machines let them spin the scan around in 3D space and must make it much easier to tell if something needs inspection or not
Yeah these are pretty common in the US, but they're just not ubiquitous. Many airports will still have a CT machine next to the old one and it just depends on what line you get out in.
Was this Claude Code? If you tried it with one file at a time in the chat UI I think you would get a straight-line port, no?
Edit: It could be because Rust works a little differently from other languages, a 1:1 port is not always possible or idiomatic. I haven't done much with Rust but whenever I try porting something to Rust with LLMs, it imports like 20 cargo crates first (even when there were no dependencies in the original language).
Also Rust for gamedev was a painful experience for me, because rust hates globals (and has nanny totalitarianism so there's no way to tell it "actually I am an adult, let me do the thing"), so you have to do weird workarounds for it. GPT started telling me some insane things like, oh it's simple you just need this rube goldberg of macro crates. I thought it was tripping balls until I joined a Rust discord and got the same advice. I just switched back to TS and redid the whole thing on the last day of the jam.
Rust has added OnceCell and OnceLock recently to make threadsafe globals a lot easier for some things. it's not "hate", it just wants you to be consistent about what you're doing.
I mostly work at level 2, and I call it "power coding", like power armor, or power tools. Your will and your hand still guides the process continuously. But now your force is greatly multiplied.
I had GPT-4 design and build a GPT-4 powered Python programmer in 2023. It was capable of self-modification and built itself out after the bootstrapping phase (where I copy pasted chunks or code based on GPT-4's instructions).
It wasn't fully autonomous (the reliability was a bit low -- e.g. had to get the code out of code fences programmatically), and it wasn't fully original (I stole most of it from Auto-GPT, except that I was operating on the AST directly due to the token limitations).
My key insight here was that I allowed GPT to design the apis that itself was going to use. This makes perfect sense to me based on how LLMs work. You tell it to reach for a function that doesn't exist, and then you ask it to make it exist based on how it reached for it. Then the design matches its expectations perfectly.
GPT-4 now considers self modifying AI code to be extremely dangerous and doesn't like talking about it. Claude's safety filters began shutting down similar conversations a few months ago, suggesting the user switch to a dumber model.
It seems the last generation or two of models passed some threshold regarding self replication (which is a distinct but highly related concept), and the labs got spooked. I haven't heard anything about this in public though.
Edit: It occurs to me now that "self modification and replication" is a much more meaningful (and measurable) benchmark for artificial life than consciousness is...
BTW for reference the thing that spooked Claude's safety trigger was "Did PKD know about living information systems?"
> GPT-4 now considers self modifying AI code to be extremely dangerous and doesn't like talking about it. Claude's safety filters began shutting down similar conversations a few months ago, suggesting the user switch to a dumber model.
I speculate that this has more to do with recent high-profile cases of self harm related to "AI psychosis" than any AGI-adjacent danger. I've read a few of the chat transcripts that have been made public in related lawsuits, and there seems to be a recurring theme of recursive or self-modifying enlightenment role-played by the LLM. Discouraging exploration of these themes would be a logical change by the vendors.
Interesting. I heard that model was significantly better than what we ended up with (at least for writing), and they shut it down because it was huge and expensive.
Did the model also come up with the idea for the novel, the characters, the outline?
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