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Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

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Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

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Post by elil17 »

mitch3x3 wrote: post #220
elil17 wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't mean it as a personal insult at all! The word ilk actually means "a type of people or things similar to those already referred to," it is not an insult or rude word.

It’s always used derogatorily. I agree that you should change it if you don’t mean for it to come across that way.

That's simply untrue. Here are several recently published articles which use ilk in a neutral or positive context:

https://www.telecomtv.com/content/digital-platforms-services...

https://writingillini.com/2023/05/16/illinois-basketball-ill...

https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-742911

Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

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Post by kredd »

tomrod wrote: post #224
unethical_ban wrote: post #190

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The below is not an endorsement of any particular regulation. It is a tool which allows any individual to have nearly instant access not only to all the world's public data, but the ability to correlate and research that data to synthesize new information quickly. Without guardrails, someone can have a completely amoral LLM that has the ability to write persuasive manifestos on any kind of extremist movement that pri…

> Without guardrails, someone can have a completely amoral LLM that has the ability to write persuasive manifestos on any kind of extremist movement that prior would have taken someone with intelligence. In an earlier time, we called these "books" and there was some similar backlash. But I digress.

Not that I support AI regulations, but reading a book is a higher barrier to entry than asking a chat assistant to do immoral things.

Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

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Post by visarga »

rdedev wrote: post #146
chaxor wrote: post #120

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What do you think about the papers showing mathematical proofs that GNNs (i.e. GATs/transformers) are dynamic programmers and therefore perform algorithmic reasoning? The fact that these systems can extrapolate well beyond their training data by learning algorithms is quite different than what has come before, and anyone stating that they "simply" predict next token is severely shortsighted. Things don't have to be '…

To be fair LLMs are predicting the next token. It's just that to get better and better predictions it needs to understand some level of reasoning and math. However it feels to me that a lot of this reasoning is brute forced from the training data. Like chatgpt gets some things wrong when adding two very large numbers. If it really knew the algorithm for adding two numbers it shouldn't be making them in the first plac…

> If it really knew the algorithm for adding two numbers it shouldn't be making them in the first place.

You're using it wrong. If you asked a human to do the same operation in under 2 seconds without paper, would the human be more accurate?

On the other hand if you ask for a step by step execution, the LLM can solve it.

Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

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Post by elil17 »

dist-epoch wrote: post #217
elil17 wrote: post #129

This is the message I shared with my senator (edited to remove information which could identify me). I hope others will send similar messages. Dear Senator [X], I am an engineer working for [major employer in the state]. I am extremely concerned about the message that Sam Altman is sharing with the Judiciary committee today. Altman wants to create regulatory roadblocks to developing AI. My company produces AI-enabled…

Can you please share what ChatGPT prompt you used to generate this letter template?

I used this old-fashioned method of text generation called "writing" - crazy, I know

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Post by woeirua »

adamsmith143 wrote: post #173
jazzyjackson wrote: post #152

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your comment reads to me as totally disconnected to the OP, whose concern relates to using the appearance of intelligence as a scare tactic to build a regulatory moat.

Actually OP is clearly, ironically, parroting the stochastic parrot idea that LLMs are incapable of anything other than basic token prediction and dismissing any of their other emergent abilities.

Spoiler alert: they're actually both LLMs arguing with one another.
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