Analysts make errors because they don’t take the motivations seriously, and assume, for example, that many folks at OpenAI are not sincere about building AGI. Not all of them are, but many truly believe it. If you don’t take that seriously, then OpenAI’s strategy is inexplicable.
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Understanding motivations behind AGI development and AI pause positions
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Having talked to many people in the AI space, I think you can take goals at face value: those who want to build AGI are serious, those who want to pause AI are serious & those who think AI is hype are serious. Motivations may more hidden, but usually or curiosity or ideology.
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LLMs as Practical Tools for Everyday Task Automation
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LLMs act like Swiss Army knives, especially if you don’t code a lot I keep having GPT-4 solve tiny problems that would have been annoying, like removing line breaks from text that I copy from PDFs, or a little GPT that turns emails into .ics appointments
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Bostrom’s Information Hazards Framework for AI Safety
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The paper: https://
nickbostrom.com/information-ha
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Generation Time, Compute Requirements, and Commercial Viability
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The usual questions: how long did this take to generate, how many tries were requires, are the compute requirements actually reasonable for commercial use?
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Impressive AI Demo Shows Remarkable Persistence Complex Shapes
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Honestly this is the most impressive demo I have seen yet and the one I find really hard to wrap my head around. There is persistence of complex shapes and images through multiple angles and distances & thematic consistency from the start to the end with relatively minor issues. https://t.co/NueYEzraRW
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 3 mars 2024Honestly this is the most impressive demo I have seen yet and the one I find really hard to wrap my head around. There is persistence of complex shapes and images through multiple angles and distances & thematic consistency from the start to the end with relatively minor issues.
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Neuropsychological Hazards: Information-Based Harm and AI Safety
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And then there is the science fiction favorite – the Neuropsychological Hazard, where information will actually cause physical harm. Triggering epileptics is one real example, mentioning MacBeth at a theater a fictional one. A list of more Basilisks: https://
artandpopularculture.com/Motif_of_harmf
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Information Hazards: Psychological Risks in Social Media
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Psychological reaction hazard: "Information can reduce well-being by causing sadness, disappointment, or some other psychological effect in the receiver." We know this actually happens in social media from experiments 6/
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Distraction hazards on social media platforms
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Distraction hazards. You are reading this on Twitter, enough said. 5/
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Information Truth Destabilizes Economic and Social System Norms
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Norm hazards: we share common sets of beliefs about how we, as a society or economy, should operate. If information breaks our belief in these norms, even if the information is true, it can create instability in the overall system. 4/