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If Microsoft and Google don’t release, some startup will beat them to it. Open source means raw AI will become widespread. It’s just math anyway, and you can’t stop progress.
what is your definition of "progress"
SVB didn't have a chief risk officer. Why have somebody bang theoretically about risks when the business is best placed to assess the real risk /sarcasm
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This. People should understand AI safety != AI ethics. AI safety has two branches, AI ethics and AI alignment. Those two branches despise each other with intense passion. The alignment branch (responsible for developing RLHF->ChatGPT) believes AI ethics is completely trivial, and distracts attention away from existential risks. The ethics branch (responsible for all the media attention about racist AIs/bias etc) view…
> It seems increasingly that the concerns from the ethics branch have not come to pass at all. It is literally happening right now in the US justice system: https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithm... There's all sorts of problems with this, but the use of "AI" to launder biased data (via IP law no less - these are proprietary blackbox algorithms being used by the justice system, owned by corporat…
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This is the case with literally all kinds of professional ethicists. Thanks to them, we do not routinely do scientific challenge trials and plenty of other valuable experiments, and in many cases are reduced to collecting significantly worse data and doing it very slowly and expensively.
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SD doesn't default to creating black people, but it understands the n-word. Should AI understand racial slurs?
To anthropomorphize, how would an AI know that a slur is a slur and therefore undesirable if it doesn't understand it. Little kids often accidentally say slurs they've heard in the media or playground until someone explains what it means and why it's bad.
I wish this would be less about woke stuff and more about paperclip maximiser problems
Do you know of anything remotely near that kind of problem in practice? Paperclip maximiser problems seem to me like fantasy at this point. I don't think we're anywhere near close enough to that problem to sensibly work on avoiding it; I think it's a bit like trying to work on the problem of lunar city overcrowding.
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Some machines might last longer than us but they are still subject to the same laws of thermodynamics. Most computers from 20+ years ago are inoperable today; show me a machine that can survive millions of years.
> Most computers from 20+ years ago are inoperable today Mostly because they were dismantled or destroyed. Most computers that old that were left unmolested still work just fine.
To get most old computers working, you have to surgically replace all capacitors first.
In one hand is necessary to reflect about the extensibility of such kind of systems due to its potential (good or bad).
However when I look for other engineer ethics frameworks from other engineering branches they used to observe systems on wild, reflect and say “hey let’s agree on this”. Most of the time with more than 20 years of reflection and understanding.
Today we have folks that their only achievement is have a a couple thousand followers on Twitter based on silencing people that is trying to do something to the field via e-mob, regardless if it’s a CEO or an IC that has a different thought frame.
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AI alignment people are the group who are capable of bringing AGI to life, but want to do it responsibly. AI ethics people are the group who are not capable of bringing AGI to life, but want to make sure that those who can do it responsibly or not at all.
> AI alignment people are the group who are capable of bringing AGI to life, but want to do it responsibly. AI alignment people are the group who believe “responsibly” means, centrally, bringing AGI to existence as fast as possible, and, critically, under the tight, opaque, authoritarian control of a narrow group of people whose ideology is, well, exemplified by figures like Sam Bankman-Fried, and doing everything po…
(and, y'know, being a fraudster who temporarily pulled the wool over the eyes of the regulators not just the charities he promised money to)
Also: is SBF really the central example of alignment in your head, and not, say Yudkowsky? Because Yudkowsky is my central example, and he's the exact opposite on all counts, wanting us to go slow and explicitly saying that humans are terrible at reasoning properly when they allow themselves to think "ends justify the means": https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K9ZaZXDnL3SEmYZqB/ends-don-t...
Likewise, there are plenty of examples of misaligned non-general AI, and have been since at least the 80s when it was GOFAI and databanks rather than neutral nets that led to new legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/35/enacted