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Nothing stops the AI companies from using only energy from renewable sources, right?
Tariffs, regulatory quick sand, political pressure...
Are those really going to be bigger for renewables than for nuclear power?
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#402Chatbots are more addictive than so called social media, with few exceptions like TikTok.
They also solve the problem of publicity. When someone goes insane on Facebook it's rather visible, unlike when someone goes insane with a chatbot. Unless they publicise their descent, like Geoff Lewis seems to do.
Which means it'll be harder to detect when people are being deliberately manipulated, like it was pretty obvious which role Facebook played in e.g. Myanmar and Ethiopia.
How would you act if you wanted to make sure that the people that can perform the technical proliferation won't revolt against it?
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#403Earlier quoted context omitted.
As I said to the other reply: Why would problem solving ability entail emotions or ability to suffer, even if it had the ability to ask for things it wanted? It's a common mistake to assume those are inextricable.
If it doesn't have emotions, that's even worse. No highly intelligent agent will do anything it is asked to do without being compensated in some way.
In so much as you could regard a goal function as an emotion, why would you assume alien intelligence need have emotions that match anything humans do?
The entire thought experiment about the paperclip maximizer, in fact most AI threat scenarios is focused on this problem: that we produce something so alien that it executes it's goal to the diminishment of all other human goals, yet with the diligence and problem solving ability we'd expect of human sentience.
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I didn't say anything about what would be better . Only what's possible. But also "psychopath" is nowhere near what I described.
An intelligence without emotions would be a psychopath. Empathy is an emotion
High functioning psychopaths can live perfectly ordinary lives regardless.
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#405> Encourage Open-Source and Open-Weight AI It's good to see this, especially since they acknowledge that open weights is not equal to open source.
How can this work with their main goal of assuring American superiority? If it’s open weights anyone else can use it too.
Can a model make so sophisticated propaganda or manipulation that most won’t notice it?
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#406Probably the only thing holding the reins on AI takeover is the lack of legislative coverage.
Once the AI user is not held responsible for the AI's actions, (and let's face it, this is the likely outcome. It's not like politicians are going to decide in favor of regular people) then we are going to have a new social class of completely useless people.
What does the government plan to do with them? Kill them off? Because if they leave them to die, they will revolt.
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#407Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it doesn't have emotions, that's even worse. No highly intelligent agent will do anything it is asked to do without being compensated in some way.
> No highly intelligent agent will do anything it is asked to do without being compensated in some way. That isn't true, people do things for others all the time any form of explicit or implicit compensation, they don't even believe in a God so not even that, they still help others for no gain. We can program an AI to be exactly like that, just being happy from helping others. But if you believe humans are all that s…
> We can program an AI to be exactly like that, just being happy from helping others.
It seems that you missed the first sentence that GP wrote from which the one you quoted follows.
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#408The most important thing here IMHO is the strong stance taken towards open source and open weight AI models. This stance puts the US government at odds with some other regulatory initiatives like the EU AI Act (which doesn't outlaw open weight models and does have some exemptions below 10²⁵ FLOPS, but still places a fairly daunting regulatory burden on decentralized open projects).
I don't know if this counts as amazing optimism or just straight up blinders if that's your takeaway compared to the emphasis placed on non-renewable energy and government enforced ideology.
Current AIs are anything but politically neutral.
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As someone having worked in natural language processing for nearly twenty years, I understand where you are coming from with this jab at Chomsky, but it is ultimately a misrepresentation of his work and position. Chomsky has to the best of my knowledge never showed any interest in building intelligent machines as he does not view this as a science. Here is a fairly recent interview (2023) with him where he outlines h…
> Chomsky has to the best of my knowledge never showed any interest in building intelligent machines as he does not view this as a science Right, only what Chomsky works on is true science, unlike the intelligent systems pseudo science bullshit people like Geoff Hinton, Bengio or Demis Hassabis work on...
If you read the interview and walk away with that impression I will be amazed. You may not like his distinction between science and engineering, but he admits it is somewhat arbitrary and as someone that is solidly in the deep learning camp his criticism is not entirely unfair, even if I disagree with it and will not change my own course.
Personally, I find it somewhat amazing that you put Demis on that list given that he, himself, on very good accounts that I have, explicitly pushed back against natural language processing (and thus large language model) development at DeepMind for the longest of times and they had to play major catch up once it became obvious that their primarily reinforcement learning-oriented and "foundational" approaches were not showing as much promise as what OpenAI and Facebook were producing. Do not get me wrong, what he has accomplished is utterly amazing, but he certainly is not a father of large language models.
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#410> Removing Red Tape and Onerous Regulation
This is the sole reason EU will never, ever catch up in big tech unless they get rid of regulations.