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jamesj t1_j85vsn4 wrote

To use a recent example, it is interesting that a large language model is "just" lots of matrix multiplication, but at a certain scale theory of mind seems to emerge from that. It was impossible to predict from understanding matrix multiplication, transformers, self-attention, and relus that at a certain scale that capability would emerge.

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PM_ME_GAY_STUF t1_j85vf9d wrote

I'm sorry, isn't this just how ML models are implemented?

I'm sure there's real work being done here, but this article reads like the researcher started giving the reporter a high level overview of how their model works and the reporter immediately yelled "That's an amazing discovery!" and ran out of the room before they even started describing their research

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spsteve t1_j85swbk wrote

It does if a site did something stupid and included something useful in the url that lp has stored.

Edit: it also makes phishing much easier. That Metadata can be used like this:

You have an ms account and an Adobe account. I know because I have your Metadata. I send you a sophisticated phish saying that Adobe is no offering to link to your ms account for single sign in. Just enter your Adobe and ms ids on this form...

It might not hit you but it would get a lot of users.

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