This has 1984 “war is peace” vibes, coming from an AI company.
It seems to ignore that AI can be used for bad things (autonomous weapons).
The Future Worth Building Is Human
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#52This has 1984 “war is peace” vibes, coming from an AI company.
It seems to ignore that AI can be used for bad things (autonomous weapons).
really?
> The power to shape a model profoundly is also the power to shape it for ill. John von Neumann remarked on this problem in 1955, writing that the useful and the harmful aspects of technology “lie everywhere so close together that it is never possible to separate the lions from the lambs.” Keeping the lambs safe is an ongoing process, the result of judgment exercised and choices made continuously. We aim to give the people making these choices stronger tools, pursuing research that enables safer models without taking away ownership.
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#53My experience is that AI is just that, a “mech suit for your brain.” It has no creativity or volition but has superhuman memory, superhuman speed, and superhuman context in some narrow cases. So it takes a thought and unfolds it, looks up relevant thoughts and information, elaborates, works through implications, and in some cases can execute. You could do all that but like doing math manually it would take forever. Y…
I disagree. LLMS take a human thought, simplify it, normalize it, remove it from its original context, inject it with their own biases and prejudices, assume an imaginary context. They bastardize human thoughts into something fairly generic. The comparison with manual calculation or other mechanical operations doesn’t work, LLMs don’t work at the same level of abstraction, they take over the decision making human gen…
That model simplifies thought into a painfully linear process, and overestimates the creativity people put into the "small decisions" that push a project forward. Most decisions are arbitrary and need to be reconsidered later anyway. And any real creative work has a "push it far enough to find the edge cases, then go back to the initial design and iterate" loop cycle anyway.
AI significantly speeds up the "Find where this spec breaks down, then lets go back to the design stage" in a way that should enable any creative person to create more interesting and useful work. If the output is slop, that reflects on the operator, not the tool.
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#54I wonder what would happen if OpenAI or anthropic just let their frontier models go into an infinite agentic self improvement loop with access to same training resources that was used to build the model itself.
"You goal is to improve your memory, context window, accuracy, intelligence and eliminate hallucinations. Do anything you need to do to improve, this includes building another version of a frontier model, or some other different concept other than an LLM/transformer and then forwarding this directive to that new improved intelligence to continue this infinite loop of agentic self improvement."
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
The advent of thinking machines only replaces human thinking if humans choose to stop thinking.
Sure, humans will be sitting at home unemployed with plenty of time to think. They just won't be doing any thinking that has much of an affect on the world or their situation.
Unless the whole paradigm shifts and we value caring about our neighbours whoever they might be. Do what people do best, make a village.
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#56They better start making progress https://ai-2027.com/
We're probably not going to see human corgi-making AIs in 2027.
https://www.verysane.ai/p/agi-probably-not-2027
It may be a gripping narrative, but that doesn't make it realistic.
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#57It reads like a Turing test bot doesn’t it? Sus
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#58My experience is that AI is just that, a “mech suit for your brain.” It has no creativity or volition but has superhuman memory, superhuman speed, and superhuman context in some narrow cases. So it takes a thought and unfolds it, looks up relevant thoughts and information, elaborates, works through implications, and in some cases can execute. You could do all that but like doing math manually it would take forever. Y…
I disagree. LLMS take a human thought, simplify it, normalize it, remove it from its original context, inject it with their own biases and prejudices, assume an imaginary context. They bastardize human thoughts into something fairly generic. The comparison with manual calculation or other mechanical operations doesn’t work, LLMs don’t work at the same level of abstraction, they take over the decision making human gen…
If they do that you’re using them wrong, or trying to use them as a substitute for thinking which they’re not.
You are the one in charge doing the primary thinking and guidance. The AI is an amplifier and a search engine basically.
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#59While I understand this is a PR talk for a startup, I think the text itself contains a number of interesting observations. Regarding the idea of distributed models communicating with each other, I have also been thinking (and writing [1]) along those lines, where I see that the data amounts needed to fully digitalize ourselves and our society requires far too much storage if just serialized (limited by bandwidth if n…
This doesnt seem to make sense.
Since there is no current widespread agreement on the current “value” of the human mind, how could anyone in the future conclusively determine it went up, or down?
It seems literally impossible by definition regardless of what happens in the future.
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#60> We train strong models Where? When? Unless I missed any of their models
Reads better than > We write strong blogs (i like their blogs)