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Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

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Re: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

#361

>AI research and development should be refocused on making today's powerful, state-of-the-art systems more accurate, safe, interpretable, transparent, robust, aligned, trustworthy, and loyal. LMAO. “AI should have… waves at a laundry list of nice sounding adjectives that mean different things to every single signatory in order to accomplish… Humanity [can enjoy] a flourishing future with AI. This will take… six month…

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Re: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

#363

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, sounds like parties not fully grokking the optimal (not thinly logical) solution to the iterated prisoners' dilemma. I saw the same thought process is the otherwise very nice novel "Time's Children". Good for drama, but not thought through.

I have so many questions >> what does it mean to fully grok the optimal? >> what is the iterated prisoners dilemma?

grok means to understand something fully.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma#The_iterate...

Re: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

#364
post #360

They should certainly make them better. I'm currently trying to convince ChatGPT that a Pi zero is faster than a 486/33 (I also asked it how to italicise text on HN, and it got it wrong twice - so I went to google for "Ed:.." bit below). That's not to say I'm down on it - it's very impressive, and it's certainly going to change things (exactly how, I don't know - though with my decades long swing from how cool the in…

You are on a fool's errand: not because of the likelihood you will succeed, but because of the meaning that lies behind any success or failure.

GPT is not a person. It doesn't categorize subjects. It models patterns of text.

A success would mean that your text prompts left a significant text pattern in the model. A failure would mean that it didn't.

Nothing about that has any bearing on logic.

Re: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

#365
The virtue signal of all virtue signals. We do not live in a society where an article like this will have any impact. This is merely an attempt to buy time because they're behind and want to have a chance to catch up. Work will progress whether they like it or not. Finally someone other than Ol' Musky is in the news more than him. Don't get me wrong he's doing and leading great work, but for once in more recent times it's someone else building the future instead of only him and his memes.

Re: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

#366
This would be totalitarian.

This is arguing for a group of people to have the power to decide some field is "unsafe" as per some vague, unverifiable criteria, then set up a police structure to verify compliance, all outside the safeguards of democratic or judicial norms.

Precautionary principle run amok.

Re: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

#367

>AI research and development should be refocused on making today's powerful, state-of-the-art systems more accurate, safe, interpretable, transparent, robust, aligned, trustworthy, and loyal. LMAO. “AI should have… waves at a laundry list of nice sounding adjectives that mean different things to every single signatory in order to accomplish… Humanity [can enjoy] a flourishing future with AI. This will take… six month…

Completely agree.

Re: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

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post #69

I understand that some people find this a hopeless gesture. But I think anybody who thinks "losing jobs" or "China" is a bad outcome from AI is hopelessly lost. The upside of AI if done right - nobody ever having to work again The downside of AI if done wrong - end of humanity It doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine we've made AIs go from thinking like an ant to thinking like a 6-year-old in a few years. Anyb…

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Re: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

#369

This would be totalitarian. This is arguing for a group of people to have the power to decide some field is "unsafe" as per some vague, unverifiable criteria, then set up a police structure to verify compliance, all outside the safeguards of democratic or judicial norms. Precautionary principle run amok.

Run amusk.
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