Thursday, December 8, 2022

Christmas Kitsch, No Longer Full of Hot Air


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American Given 8-Month Suspended Sentence in Traffic Death of British Teen


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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources

Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources
13 by rushingcreek | 1 comments on Hacker News.
We’ve trained a generative AI model to browse the web and answer questions/retrieve code snippets directly. Unlike ChatGPT, it has access to primary sources and is able to cite them when you hover over an answer (click on the text to go to the source being cited). We also show regular Bing results side-by-side with our AI answer. The model is an 11-billion parameter T5-derivative that has been fine-tuned on feedback given on hundreds of thousands of searches done (anonymously) on our platform. Giving the model web access lessens its burden to need to store a snapshot of human knowledge within its parameters. Rather, it knows how to piece together primary sources in a natural and informative way. Using our own model is also an order of magnitude cheaper than relying on GPT. A drawback to aligning models to web results is that they are less inclined to generate complete solutions/answers to questions where good primary sources don’t exist. Answers generated without underlying citable sources can be more creative but are prone to errors. In the future, we will show both types of answers. Examples: https://ift.tt/XRNjwd8 https://ift.tt/k1qnWPb... https://ift.tt/9GADNp7... https://ift.tt/0pbRmz4...

New top story on Hacker News: Xiaomi’s Humanoid Drummer Beats Expectations

Xiaomi’s Humanoid Drummer Beats Expectations
8 by mfiguiere | 9 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: A blameless post-mortem of USA vs. Joseph Sullivan

A blameless post-mortem of USA vs. Joseph Sullivan
14 by mik3y | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: A Generalist Neural Algorithmic Learner

A Generalist Neural Algorithmic Learner
20 by tosh | 0 comments on Hacker News.


The United States thanked the United Arab Emirates for its role in the exchange.


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