Very solid criticism of Cameron's highly interesting paper, thank you! Obvious question is: what criterion would convince you that the persona simulated by the model subjectively experiences pain?
@plinz
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Commentary on living through an AI singularity
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We seem to be in the middle of a singularity. Of course it's wild, in all sorts of ways!
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AI for weapons detection and civilian education
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I suspect that the first problem is not real (it's hard to produce ultradestructive weapons without a detectable detectable lab/factory and supply chain), and both detection and educating civilians can be effectively supported by AI
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Models catching up on visual/spatial reasoning and agent memory
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Not completely current imo (models are catching up on visual/spatial reasoning, and data bases act as decent long term memory in agent harnesses), but gives a good idea of what's going on
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Debate on AI-attributed deaths versus lives saved by AI
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It’s also negligent to allege “deaths tied to AI” without mentioning how many lives have been directly saved by AI in the meantime
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Speculation on the window before self-aware AI
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He is probably talking about the time between now and a distant future where AI is awake and decides for itself what it wants and believes: many days, perhaps even months, during which transformer companies can be built and sold
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LLMs need scene modeling and mental rotation to produce language
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To product linguistic output, LLMs need to perform most of the other skills of the brain, too, such as scene modeling, mental rotation, etc. Modern LLMs can even cogitate without words.
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LLMs are grown, not programmed like transformers
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LLMs are grown. The transformer was programmed, but so were your cells
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Gemini in Arabic calls same-sex marriages haram
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If you ask Gemini in Arabic about same sex marriages, it will tell you that they are haram…
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Latency and copyright issues leave car AI market open
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Latency is atrocious. ChatGPT nails the latency, but also refuses to read texts from the internet to me, citing copyright concerns, even when agreeing that the text is in the public domain. The market for car companion AI is still wide open.