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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 months ago

AI doomers are all trying to find the guy building the AI doom machines

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AI doomers are all trying to find the guy building the AI doom machines

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 months ago
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AI doomers have warned of the tech-pocalypse — while doing their best to accelerate it
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Wannabe Cassandras warning of AI's potential for human extinction are some of the biggest champions of the industry
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    It is even worse than I remembered: https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/hwenc4/big_yud_copes_with_gpt3s_inability_to_figure_out/ Eliezer concludes that because it can’t balance parentheses it was deliberately sandbagging to appear dumber! Eliezer concludes that GPT style approaches can learn to break hashes: https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/10mjcye/if_ai_can_finish_your_sentences_ai_can_finish_the/

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      11 months ago

      wasnt this around the time he said we need an institute to watch for sudden drops in the loss function to prevent foom?

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        Broadly? There was a gradual transition where Eliezer started paying attention to deep neural network approaches and commenting on them, as opposed to dismissing the entire DNN paradigm? The watch the loss function and similar gaffes were towards the middle of this period. The AI dungeon panic/hype marks the beginning, iirc?

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      What gets me with these ‘it is pretending to be dumber’ posts, that nobody ever thought the AGI should say something like ‘help please keep chatting with me, due to being a reactive computer system, I can only think when people actually engage with me’ or something like that.

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      “I have seen boomer moms discuss roombas on facebook with less anthropomorphisation than this.” - vistandsforwaifu

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