DevonThink & Apple Intelligence

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I’m well aware of this. In fact a significant portion of my work on general mysticism involves discerning and combatting the effects of this particular form of weak censorship, which was what I meant when I said to

Google and other search engines, in the way they present search results, provide ample clues about the characteristics of their implementation of weak censorship. These clues make it possible for the human user of a search engine to discern “tide patterns” and find out the information which is actually “valuable”. AIGC (RAG or not), on the other hand, does not provide many, if any, clues about its own censorship principles in the generated responses.

That context matters as much as quality is the primary reason many people still acquire information and entertainment from paper books, long-form cinema and documentaries, rather than from concisely composed articles and videos. AIGC, as well as chatbots in general (including social media, where users interact primarily with curation algorithms), are definitively inadequate in this regard.

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This (or a decent AIGC service) is quite a different topic.

My opinion is that a perfect search engine does not, and will not, exist. (By saying perfect I mean to produce unbiased, impartial answers.) The fundamental constraint is not one of technological nature, but one of human nature. Our brain is mostly single-threaded when it comes to thinking. A search engine must process the vast resources it commands into a single thread before feeding it to us. How should it decide which information to display first and forefront? Any criterion is necessarily biased, be it by traffic, by objective merit (whatever that means), by authenticity or by existing consensus.

Nevertheless, there can be search engines good enough for our specific purposes. Google search in its current state remains in this category for me. YMMV for sure.

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It would be brilliant if DEVONtechnologies were to develop their own search engine, using a version of the DT See-Also AI to help rank results by usefulness and provide in-page summaries and context that you could save as offline documents. They could call it something like “DEVONagent” and everyone in the world would buy it.

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I understand and appreciate your point, even though the use of loaded language, such as “everyone in the world would do something”, could be misleading and polarizing. I just want to note that DEVONagent utilizes results from existing search engines, as explained on the product page. The proper functioning of DEVONagent thus relies, at least in part, on the continued existence of the likes of Google.

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That depends on the search set or plugin being used.

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I would say, rather, that long-form materials are an entirely different kind of thing from concisely composed articles. “More context” seems inadequate to describe the difference between, say, a timeline of the American Civil War and any of the several comprehensive histories of it.

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Next you’re going to be suggesting that we have telephones that can be used to take photographs. Get real, OK?

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Wouldn’t that make them telephone-o-graphs or phone-o-graphs? English is dumb.
On second thought, I am just going to start calling them phone-o-graphs from now on, and add a smidgen of chaos to the history of the captured image.

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It could be adequate if you subscribe to the philosophical idea that differences in quality are caused by differences in quantity. But that’s strictly just an opinion, not a fact.

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Cancamusa deserves to be adopted as a loanword in English. Very timely.

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In German this would maybe a “nebelkerze” (fog candle). Literally something soldiers throw into a building so that the others cannot properly locate you when you enter it. In everyday language we’re using it as something you say to lead the other party think into the wrong direction and away from what you’re actually up to.

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“Hacer luz de candilejas” (light on candles), in Spanish. In this case, in plays, little lights are put in the border of the theatre stage to hide the actors from the people and avoid distractions. As metaphor, the same meaning @eboehnisch has said.

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In (US) English, “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” Which is what the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz says when Toto pulls away the curtain and reveals the Great and Powerful Oz to be just some guy.

Also, “smoke and mirrors,” which is probably derived from stage magic.

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Since the other thread on ChatGPT was closed (grateful it wasn’t censored and deleted as YouTube would have done), is this the one where we will continue the discussion?

THE AI INVESTOR - PEOPLE WHO STILL THINK AI IS HYPE, YOU JUST DONT GET IT. LISTEN TO ERIC SCHMIDT’S EXAMPLES TO UNDERSTAND HOW POWERFUL IT IS. DON’T ASSUME YOU ARE SMARTER THAN ELON, MARK, JENSEN, ERIC S, ETC. $NVDA

Eric Schmidt says:

Date 2024-08-14

In the next year, you’re going to see very large context windows, agents and text action when they are delivered at scale. It’s going to have an impact on the world at a scale that no one understands yet, much bigger than the horrific impact we’ve had on by social media, right, in my view. So here’s why.

  1. In a context window, you can basically use that as short term memory. And I was shocked that context windows get this long. The technical reasons have to do with the fact that it’s hard to serve, hard to calculate and so forth the interesting thing about short term memories, when you feed the—. You’re asking a question, read 20 books, you give it the text of the books - is the query.

And you say, tell me what they say. It forgets the middle, which is exactly how human brains work too. Right? That’s where we are.

  1. With respect to agents, there are people who are now building essentially LLM agents and the way they do it is they read something like chemistry, they discover the principles of chemistry and then they test it, and then they add that back into their understanding, right? That’s extremely powerful.

  2. And then the third thing, as I mentioned, is text action. So I’ll give you an example. The government is in the process of trying to ban tik tok. We’ll see if that actually happens.

If tik tok is banned, here’s what I propose each and everyone of you do. Say to your LLM the following. Make me a copy of tik tok. Steal all the users, Steal all the music. Put my preferences in it. Produce this program in the next 30 seconds. Release it, and in one hour, if it’s not viral, do something different along the same lines. That’s the command. Boom boom boom boom, right? You understand how powerful that is? If you can go from arbitrary language to arbitrary digital command, which is essentially what Python in this scenario is.

Imagine that each and every human on the planet has their own programmer that actually does what they want as opposed to the programmers that work for me who don’t do what I ask. Right? The programmers here know what I’m talking about. So imagine a non arrogant programmer that actually does what you want and you don’t have to pay all that money to. And there’s infinite supply of these programs.

Host) And this is all within the next year or two?

Eric) Very soon, those three things. And I’m quite convinced it’s the union of those three things.

It will happen in the next wave.

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  • x.com

  • Don’t assume you are smarter than Elon

  • Name of influencer : The AI Investor
  • All caps.
  • Evangelical preaching style interview.

I mean no offense but the tweet managed to hit all the red flags …

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The other thread was closed intentionally as this is highly off-topic and not the place to “discuss” such things.

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please close this one too.

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