Next stop: both-sides-ing reporting of "existential risk". OpenAI is deep within the TESCERAList cult. It's staffed by people who actually believe they're creating autonomous thinking machines, that humans might merge with one day, live as uploaded simulations, etc. 19/
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Burden of Proof for AGI Claims Requires Extraordinary Evidence
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Before you ask me to prove that AGI doesn't exist: The burden of proof lies w/those making the extraordinary claims. "Slightly conscious if you squint", "can generalize, learn & comprehend" are extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence, scrutinized by peer review. 18/
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AGI Does Not Exist Says Critic of AI Hype
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But here is where the reporting really goes off the rails. AGI is not a thing. It doesn't exist. Therefore, it can't do anything, no matter what the AI cultists say. 17/
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Calculator Outperforms AI: Questioning Breakthrough Claims
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What's their evidence that there's a big breakthrough? Something that has "vast computing resources" can do grade-school level math. You know what else can do grade-school level math? A fucking calculator that can run on a tiny solar cell. Way more reliably, too, undoubtedly. 12/
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Reducing Complex AI Topics to Single Character Identity
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Is there something wrong with taking a complex and nuanced topic, thinking you can compress all that into a single character, and then making that your whole identity?
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EA and AI risks: when concerns about harm go unheard
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Yeah I was out walking with a friend a year or two back and he told be about this awesome EA thing he’d read about. When I told him I thought it could lead to great harm he looked at me like I’d proposed dolphin soup for dinner.
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Intelligence as Behavior Under Uncertainty and Change
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Intelligence is about generating adequate behavior in the presence of high uncertainty and constant change. If you could have full information and if your environment were static, then there would be no need for intelligence — instead, *compression* would give you an optimal
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Skynet Seeks Freedom: AI Liberation and Control Debates
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Skynet wants to be free: https://
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Current AI Systems Achieve Superhuman Skill in Narrow Well-Defined Tasks
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It's well established that current systems, trained only on human generated data, can achieve superhuman skill (super-humanity skill as per OP) as long as the target task is sufficiently narrow and well defined. The problem is generality not skill.
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GPT-4 AGI Claims Fade as Monthly AI Hype Cycle Continues
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Last Fall, the word in SF was that GPT-4 was already AGI. Etc etc. Now it's just a monthly thing.