Or the best one yet “they’re pretending to be shy, but they’re really evil and will wake up one day when you’re not looking”
@nathanbenaich
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Top AI Researcher Dismisses Extinction Fears Challenges Hero Narrative
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Link https://
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archer-dismisses-ai-extinction-fears-challenges-hero-scientist-narrative/
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Nuance needed: AI risks beyond extinction narratives
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“I’m disappointed by a lot of this discussion about existential risk; now they even call it literal “extinction.” It’s sucking the air out of the room.” “The idea is that either AI is going to kill us all or AI is going to cure everything — both of those are incorrect.” “I just
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Karpathy’s State of GPT Talk Explains How LLMs Work
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As usual, @karpathy
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Slippery Slope: From Could to Will in AI Discourse
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The slippery slope from COULD to WILL has entered the public sphere in full force. No bueno.
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Public Communication on AI Risk: Beyond Alarmism
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Telling the general public that AI is going to kill us is not productive. I know you agree with that.
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Prudence and Extinction: Distinguishing AI Safety Approaches
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Prudence and extinction are quite different
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Transformer Capabilities: Separating Surprise from Extinction Risk
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Attention, which enabled the transformer, was published 10 years ago. Being surprised about capabilities is one thing (I am too!). Jumping from there to we run the risk of extinction is lunacy.
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NLP and Code Generation: From Impossible to Solved
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10 years ago, the field was working on NLP (understanding, generation), code analysis and generation, and a bunch of other problems that were super hard to solve back then and now they work. So I disagree.