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#2A genius plan indeed. If he can get the AI to write his papers, he'll never have to stop being on sabbatical.
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#4A genius plan indeed. If he can get the AI to write his papers, he'll never have to stop being on sabbatical.
In academia, a "sabbatical" means you take some time off from teaching courses, advising students and doing administrative work so you can concentrate on your research. So in order to stay on sabbatical, he'd need to get the AI to do that other stuff.
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#5Obviously it will relate to complexity in deep learning but I can't resist thinking about some AI models involving quantum computation stuffs :-)
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#6A genius plan indeed. If he can get the AI to write his papers, he'll never have to stop being on sabbatical.
In academia, a "sabbatical" means you take some time off from teaching courses, advising students and doing administrative work so you can concentrate on your research. So in order to stay on sabbatical, he'd need to get the AI to do that other stuff.
Not so impractical, don't most undergrads write at a GPT3 level anyways? =)
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#7Seeing someone as trustworthy as Scott choose to work on AI safety is a pretty good sign for the state of the field IMO. It seems like a lot of studious people agree AI alignment is important but then end up shoehorning the problem into whatever framework they are most expert in. When all you have is a hammer etc... I feel like he has good enough taste to avoid this pitfall.
Semi-related - I'd want to see some actual practical application for this research to prove they're on the right track. But maybe conceptually that's just impossible without a strong AI to test with, at which point it's already over? Alignment papers are impressively complex and abstract but I have this feeling while reading them that it's just castles made of sand.
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#8Probably realized quantum computing is going nowhere fast.
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#9"When you start reading about AI safety, it’s striking how there are two separate communities—the one mostly worried about machine learning perpetuating racial and gender biases, and the one mostly worried about superhuman AI turning the planet into goo" - great quote.
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#10Seeing someone as trustworthy as Scott choose to work on AI safety is a pretty good sign for the state of the field IMO. It seems like a lot of studious people agree AI alignment is important but then end up shoehorning the problem into whatever framework they are most expert in. When all you have is a hammer etc... I feel like he has good enough taste to avoid this pitfall. Semi-related - I'd want to see some actual…
Symmetrically someone like him transitioning from quantum computing should imply something negative about the state of quantum computing.