I recently wrote a short paper with Fable, and, with some prodding, I was able to get some non-painful prose out of it.
I just found my prompt:
The writing style could really use some work. Avoid Claude-isms like "stated fairly", em dashes, "load-bearing", overly punchy phrasing like "keep the signal, govern the response". This is a technical document, not a marketing campaign.
I generally agree. Perhaps there's only a 5% chance that it would write better code or find a bug that it wouldn't have with a lesser model, but the economics of bugs is strong enough that preventing a single bug is worth hundreds of dollars.
That consumer energy prices are going up is simply a matter of public policy. Municipalities have the power to keep rates flat, but they choose not to.
I'm generally laissez-faire about corporate layoffs. Corporation should have the freedom to organize how they want.
Still, this sticks in my craw. Microsoft didn't just buy a game studio. They bought a fleet of studios, a non trivial segment of the entire video game market. And they did almost nothing with them, and then they just light the goodwill on fire. It isn't just the IP. It is the brand, the organizational work, the history. Just vaporized.
The least they could have done is sell the studios mostly intact.
That's the instantiation of AI in a particular embodiment; the ethical boundaries are clear.
For a chatbot, there are dozens of use cases, all with different ethical impacts. The idea that there is a single framework that you can shove every situation through is counter to a couple thousand years of philosophical discourse, not to mention basic usability.
This reads of projecting personal ethics onto a model.
Most of the the behaviors the article talks about happens every day in business. Why would we set a higher standard for models than our fellow humans?
Let the operator set the ethical parameters of the model. To be a useful tool, I want the model to give me as many good options as possible, ethical or not.
This is particularly important for fictional situations, e.g. I want my model to be able to act like a corrupt shopkeeper.
I've used LMDB in production for multi-terabyte databases, and we encountered the long-write time but found a solution.
The important idea is that LMDB offloads cache management almost completely to the OS. You have to become intimately familiar with the way that the page cache works and how to configure it.