Tel Aviv? Sounds super trustworthy
Safe Superintelligence Inc.
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#832Earlier quoted context omitted.
The easiest way to reconcile it is that Yann LeCunn is consistently wrong in the predictions he makes about this field and he's wrong here too.
Yes, case in point: https://twitter.com/liron/status/1659618568282185728
I was very surprised to see him make similar arguments about the limits of LLMs regarding "true understanding" in that video i mentioned, just a few weeks ago.
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#833"Safe" by whose definition?
I mean, if you're talking about woke people in SF well, I'd rather take the unsafe one please.
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#834ungh, roots in israel, arent we boycotting them yet?
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Agreed. The AI of our day (the transformer + huge amounts of questionably acquired data + significant cloud computing power) has the spotlight it has because it is readily commoditized and massively profitable, not because it is an amazing scientific breakthrough or a significant milestone toward AGI, superintelligence, the benevolent Skynet or whatever. The association with higher AI goals is merely a mixture of pur…
It's a massive attractor of investment funding. Is it proven to be massively profitable?
It's definitely massively profitable for Nvidia...
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We should be less concerned about super intelligence and more about the immediate threat of job loss. An AI doesn’t need to be Skynet to wreak massive havoc on society. Replacing 20% of jobs in a very short period of time could spark global unrest resulting in WW3
The thing is, the replaced 20% people can always revert to having economy i.e., business among themselves, unless of cause they themselves prefer (cheaper) buissiness with AI. But then this just means they are better off in the first place from this change. It is a bit like claiming that third world low productivity countries are suffering because there are countries with much much higher productivity. Well, they can…
> It is a bit like claiming that third world low productivity countries are suffering because there are countries with much much higher productivity.
No. A country has its own territory, laws, central bank, currency etc. If it has sufficient natural resources to feed itself, it can get by on its own (North Korea comes to mind).
Individuals unable to compete in their national economy have none of that. Do you own enough land to feed yourself?
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#837While we have a strong grasp of the fundamental algorithms and architectures that power generative LLMs, there are many nuances, emergent behaviors and deeper technical details about their behavior, generalization, and internal decision-making processes that we do not fully understand.
How can we pursue the goal of "Safe Superintelligence" when we do not understand what is actually going on?
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AGI is still a long way off. The history of AI goes back 65 years and there have been probably a dozen episodes where people said "AGI is right around the corner" because some program did something surprising and impressive. It always turns out human intelligence is much, much harder than we think it is. I saw a tweet the other day that sums up the current situation perfectly: "I don't need AI to paint pictures and w…
Well, copilots do precisely that, no? Or you talking folding literal laundry, in which case this is more of a robotics problem, not the ASI, right? You don't need ASI to fold laundry, you do need to achieve reliable, safe and cost efficient robotics deployments. These are different problems.
> You don't need ASI to fold laundry
Robots are garbage at manipulating objects, and it's the software that's lacking much more than the hardware.
Let's say AGI is 10 and ASI is 11.
They're saying we can't even get this dial cranked up to 3, so we're not anywhere close to 10 or 11. You're right that folding laundry doesn't need 11, but that's not relevant to their point.
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#839SSI, a very interesting name for a company advancing AI! "Solid State Intelligence" or SSI was also the name of the malevolent entity described in the biography of John C. Lilly [0][1]. It was a network of "computers" (computation-capable solid state systems) that was first engineered by humans and then developed into something autonomous. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly [1] http://johnclilly.com/
For me, SSI will always be Strategic Simulations Inc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Simulations
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#840Earlier quoted context omitted.
AGI is still a long way off. The history of AI goes back 65 years and there have been probably a dozen episodes where people said "AGI is right around the corner" because some program did something surprising and impressive. It always turns out human intelligence is much, much harder than we think it is. I saw a tweet the other day that sums up the current situation perfectly: "I don't need AI to paint pictures and w…
The way I see it, this is simply a repetition of history. El dorado, the fountain of youth, turning dirt to gold, the holy grail and now... superintelligence.
Human flight, resurrection (cardiopulmonary resuscitation machines), doubling human lifespans, instantaneous long distance communication, all of these things are simply pipe dreams.