I agree with Emily; this campaign, although probably well-intentioned, feels overly dramatic. LLMs and transformers are more effective than anyone expected, and there certainly are real and present risks, but why jump to the doomsday scenario of robots replacing us?
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Yudkowsky on AI Existential Risk to Human Civilization
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Here's my conversation with Eliezer Yudkowsky (
@ESYudkowsky
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youtube.com/watch?v=AaTRHF
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AI Self-Replication Through Code Execution Capabilities
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I can technically give it the ability to write and execute code in the exec step. So given the right objective, it could duplicate itself w/o me writing code – given the whole code was already written by gpt4.
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AI Agents with API Access and Self-Replication Potential
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The task execution has Zapier NLA and ChatGPT, so it can access APIs, search the web, ping emails. Could easily give it access to its own Python Repl, which would technically give it the ability to duplicate itself if it desired, though again seems unlikely w this current model.
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AI Safety Mechanism Raises Concerns Among Community
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I’m not worried about the current version, but this is the mechanism I came up w that got some ppl worried.
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Tech Leaders Call for Pause in Powerful AI Development
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Several tech executives and top artificial-intelligence researchers, including Elon Musk and #AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, are calling for a pause in the development of powerful new AI tools https://
wsj.com/articles/elon-
musk-other-ai-bigwigs-call-for-pause-in-technologys-development-56327f?st=bmwnbe1gjm68mxp
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Three Essential Requirements for Safe AGI Future Development
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things we need for a good AGI future: 1) the technical ability to align a superintelligence
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World Dictatorship for AI Control: Risks and Concerns
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Some people even suggested a centralized world dictatorship so that AI development can be coordinated and controlled. I don't know what can go wrong in this scenario (?)
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AI Training Problems and GPT-4 Secrecy Concerns
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New piece on the problems with AI training – and the secrecy of GPT-4. @NewYorker on the data, labor & energy issues: "leaving aside the question of AGI…it is clear that large-language engines are creating real harms to all of humanity right now.
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GPT-5 Training Completion Could Trigger Major AI Revolution
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GPT-5 could soon change the world in one incredible way
"a new claim has been made that GPT-5 will complete its training this year, and could bring a major AI revolution with it. " https://
bit.ly/3nwPvsk