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Comment Re:Just buy the patent (Score 1) 69

They've already done most of the work. The enormous risk is behind them, as are the expensive human trials. Most of the marketing is too; Ozempic is a household name. All that's left is pulling in the profits to recoup all those expenses.

Public health care systems around the world provide good value for money. Private ones do too. The US system is a weird mix of private and hamstrung public that makes it an outlier on the bad side of the price/performance line. I doubt governments buying patents would improve that situation. Just negotiate group purchases like everyone else.

Comment Re:Category Problems (Score 1) 14

It is 1.5 percentile. I.e. 1.5% of humans who took the test scored better than it. I.e. it scored better than 98.5% of humans who took the test. Thus the sneaky summary "suggests the hype about large language models beating elite human coders is premature."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... [wikipedia.org]

(sorry, other reply was to the wrong post)

Comment Re:Not even retrival. (Score 1) 14

It is 1.5 percentile. I.e. 1.5% of humans who took the test scored better than it. I.e. it scored better than 98.5% of humans who took the test. Thus the sneaky summary "suggests the hype about large language models beating elite human coders is premature."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment Takings clause (Score 2) 69

Buying a patent by the government is merely invalidating that patent, something a government can do for free, theoretically.

That depends on the country's takings law. I'm more familiar with the United States Constitution, which provides: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." Canada's Expropriation Act (fact sheet) likewise guarantees market value to the property owner.

Comment Re:Just buy the patent (Score 1) 69

it would make sense for government to just buy out the patent so that much cheaper generic versions can be available to the citizens.

Why? Pharma companies can do math. If they were willing to sell the patent they would charge as much as they thought it was worth. Aside from a nice gift to the generic drugmakers, the result would just be the public taking on the risk of owning the patent.

You could decide the drug was critical and dictate the price. Besides being a bad precedent for the world's largest IP holding country, Novo is Danish so you'd also have international side-effects for other IP.

Comment Re:Sounds like a good lawsuit (Score 5, Informative) 59

This seems like exactly the kind of situation lawsuits are intended for. A google search of "UK false accusation law" turns up multiple ambulance chasing lawyer web pages that inform me that false accusations, as well as milder defamation, can be prosecuted both criminally and civilly and I should definitely contact them as soon as possible to make sure I know my rights.

Comment Re:ChatGPT is not a chess engine (Score 1) 127

LLMs are mostly composed of regular old fully connected ANNs, and the remainder, the transformers, are also ANNs. ANNs certainly can learn the rules of chess, and you can train one to play chess at a level that is generally regarded as superhuman. There's also a proof that any 2+ layer ANN of sufficient size can learn any IO function.

So there's nothing about the structure of an LLM that would make it unable to learn and follow the rules of chess. The fact that they don't, or don't do so very well, means that the way they are trained is an inefficient way to learn chess. Which shouldn't really be surprising to anybody who's read a book about something and then gone off a tried to do it with zero experience.

Comment Re:ChatGPT is not a chess engine (Score 1) 127

Have a citation for such an advertisement?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.samaltman.com%2Fthe...
"Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence"
"we have recently built systems that are smarter than people in many ways"
"In some big sense, ChatGPT is already more powerful than any human who has ever lived."
etc.

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