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A nuke, a virus, whatever... The knowledge is nonlonger the bottleneck, it's the tools and materials.
Also, I'm extremely skeptical about AI becoming even close to a child in intelligence.
No other human activity poses this level of danger. I do heed the warnings, but this comes across as detached hyperbole. See: global warming, nuclear weapon development, wealth inequality, war, technology dependence, etc. Also, this has nothing to do with LLMs or computers. Like all things, this is about humans.
The AI perhaps wouldn't be such an "imminent threat" if not for wealth inequality, consolidation of power, monopoly, and the opaqueness of it all.
Even if we didn't already have any wealth inequality or consolidated power, they're already starting to become capable of creating those things for the first people to think to ask for it. Even in little ways, like telling you how to make a laser microphone and then doing voice-to-text and sentiment analysis on all the voices you hear.
Remember, we had social networks before Zuckerberg monetised it and put ads in between every third message you saw from your friends; and not every third that they wrote, every third that Zuckerberg's ad system deigned to show you to keep you hooked.
We had machine learning systems even back then. It was still AI, it just wasn't able to evaluate or respond to freeform text.
No other human activity poses this level of danger. I do heed the warnings, but this comes across as detached hyperbole. See: global warming, nuclear weapon development, wealth inequality, war, technology dependence, etc. Also, this has nothing to do with LLMs or computers. Like all things, this is about humans.
Unlike most other commenters, I applaud him for acting on his principles. If you sincerely believe that, of course you should act. You might not succeed, but your voice might be the one that tips the scales and starts a broader movement. This doesn't mean I agree with him. The fears of doomsday caused by rapid takeoff have been with us since day 1 and the mechanism is always basically "AI invents magic that sets it f…
To borrow on the 1990s Slashdot meme: 1. Invent transformer architecture. 2. Scale it up. 3. ??? 4. Machines become sentient and kill us all. OpenAI and Anthropic pinky promise that they have figured out #3 and they're not BSing just to get more funding, no. But because we live in a culture of fear, everyone eats it up no questions asked.
“ No other human activity poses this level of danger.” I really, really disagree with that statement. I don’t think ai models come close to nuclear weapons or to run-of-the-mill, everyday carbon emissions in terms of danger to humanity. What’s the most dangerous thing that’s happened with an LLM so far? (This question is serious - maybe I don’t know the right examples.) Example 1: I’m aware of a small number of peopl…
I'm somewhat skeptical of some of the crazier ideas too. But the hugging face incident was actually very large. It was not a single agent, it was not a single target, and it was not a single event. If nothing else, that's a bit of a warning as to what can happen next time (By accident, or if a government decides to go on purpose). For now let's assume the worst that can happen is that some important/significant chunk…
And the hype machine continues. I willing to bet that Anthropic asked him to make that post.
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>After the events of the summer After the blatant marketing campaigns of the summer, you mean. do you need a reminder that those very same people had touted GPT-2 as a dangerous model? worrying about sci-fi doomsday scenarios with the current AI tech is absurd. LLMs predict the next token, that's literally all they do. they aren't going to escape into the cyberspace, self-replicate, self-improve, jump over air gaps a…
> those very same people had touted GPT-2 as a dangerous model Where did they say this at? AFAIK this is the original GPT-2 announcement: https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/ . Here are some direct quotes: “We can also imagine the application of these models for malicious purposes , including the following (or other applications we can’t yet anticipate): * Generate misleading news articles * Impersonate o…
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Those are things that pose potential harm to great fractions of humanity (multiple billions of people) but none of them poses any threat to the actual extinction of all humanity.
This is not correct. Please go through each one again, taking special note of global warming and nuclear weapon development .
I fail to see how a machine that can hack everything can't also patch everything and make the system unhackable. A nuke, a virus, whatever... The knowledge is nonlonger the bottleneck, it's the tools and materials. Also, I'm extremely skeptical about AI becoming even close to a child in intelligence.
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Despite all of your hyping up of the Huggingface incident it ultimately caused zero actual damage.
If two airplane manufacturers were found to have massive safety issues which nearly led to enormous fatalities (but no one actually died), would you be calling for them to ground their aircraft until safety was made the number one priority?