There's plenty of AI blocking Chrome extensions already, however I prefer Safari for personal stuff (and hence YouTube too) and use Brave for Google-gated work related stuff.
It's free on GitHub for anyone to build, use or fork. I've built it for myself, but going through App Store submissions took me 2x the time, hence the price.
True, but that's a way harder problem to solve. For me what was important was reducing the noise as much as possible as fast as possible consistently. Youtube algorithms has been pervasive enough that anything that moves the scale down even a little bit was worth the effort.
We can surely fix it and we probably should.
However, I don't think AI is doing any worse here than friends advice when they here a one sided story. The only difference being that it's not getting studied.
Conversely, AI chatbots are great mediators if both parties are present in the conversation.
A few years ago I've made this simple thought experiment to convince myself that LLM's won't achieve superhuman level (in the sense of being better than all human experts):
Imagine that we made an LLM out of all dolphin songs ever recorded, would such LLM ever reach human level intelligence? Obviously and intuitively the answer is NO.
Your comment actually extended this observation for me sparking hope that systems consuming natural world as input might actually avoid this trap, but then I realized that tool use & learning can in fact be all that's needed for singularity while consuming raw data streams most of the time might actually be counterproductive.
I mean no offense here, but I really don't like this attitude of "I thought for a bit and came up with something that debunks all of the experts!". It's the same stuff you see with climate denialism, but it seems to be considered okay when it comes to AI. As if the people that spend all day every day for decades have not thought of this.
Dataset limitations have been well understood since the dawn of statistics-based AI, which is why these models are trained on data and RL tasks that are as wide as possible, and are assessed by generalization performance. Most of the experts in ML, even the mathematically trained ones, within the last few years acknowledge that superintelligence (under a more rigorous definition than the one here) is quite possible, even with only the current architectures. This is true even though no senior researcher in the field really wants superintelligence to be possible, hence the dozens of efforts to disprove its potential existence.
> Imagine that we made an LLM out of all dolphin songs ever recorded, would such LLM ever reach human level intelligence? Obviously and intuitively the answer is NO.
Not so fast. People have built pretty amazing thought frameworks out of a few axioms, a few bits, or a few operations in a Turing machine. Dolphin songs are probably more than enough to encode the game of life. It's just how you look at it that makes it intelligence.
It's basically way better than LoRA under all respects and could even be used to speed up inference. I wonder whether the big models are not using it already... If not we'll see a blow up in capabilities very, very soon.
What they've shown is that you can find the subset of parameters responsible for transfer of capability to new tasks.
Does it apply to completely novel tasks? No, that would be magic. Tasks that need new features or representations break the method, but if it fits in the same domain then the answer is "YES".
Here's a very cool analogy from GPT 5.1 which hits the nail in the head in explaining the role of subspace in learning new tasks by analogy with 3d graphics.
Think of 3D character animation rigs:
• The mesh has millions of vertices (11M weights).
• Expressions are controlled via:
• “smile”
• “frown”
• “blink”
Each expression is just:
mesh += α_i \* basis_expression_i
Hundreds of coefficients modify millions of coordinates.
> Does it apply to completely novel tasks? No, that would be magic.
Are there novel tasks? Inside the limits of physics, tasks are finite, and most of them are pointless. One can certainly entertain tasks that transcend physics, but that isn't necessary if one merely wants an immortal and indomitable electronic god.
I hope I’m wrong, as I didn’t even know who Pavel Durov was until now, but the first thought that came to mind was that it’s a show of power to intimidate Elon Musk.
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