finally watched ex machina last night. pretty good movie but i can’t figure out why everyone told me to watch it.
AGI
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AGI Will Accelerate Change at Unprecedented Rates
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“a much faster rate of change” is maybe my single highest-confidence prediction about what a world with AGI in it will be like.
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AGI as Accelerant: Technology Advancement at Unprecedented Speed
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a reasonably plausible version of the AGI future is that it unfolds similarly to how it would have without AGI, but it’s such a powerful tool that everything happens much faster.
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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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Questioning AI Catastrophism: Where’s the Evidence?
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The problem I have with appearances like this one is the *massive* assumption jump from where we are today to an omniscient overpowering AI that is default destructive for humanity. No one is capable of explaining why or how. Just that it’ll happen. That’s not good enough.
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Mark Zuckerberg Podcast Interview: AI and Beyond
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I'm interviewing Mark Zuckerberg on the podcast soon, for the 2nd time. The focus will be on AI , but I'm sure we'll cover a lot of other topics as well. Please let me know if you have any questions/topic suggestions.
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Breakthrough in Process Supervision for AI Alignment
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really exciting process supervision result from our mathgen team. positive sign for alignment.
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Why Google and OpenAI experts signed a letter
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Surprisingly, one of these articles excellently explains one of the viewpoints on why people from Google / OpenAI etc. signed this kind of letter.
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Four Future Scenarios: How Humanity Relates to AI
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Dans La Guerre des Intelligences à l’heure de ChatGPT j’évoque 4 choix face à l’IA 1 lnterdiction 2 Acceptation du grand remplacement cognitif de l’homme par l’IA
3 Cohabitation 4 Fusion voulue par @elonmusk en mettant des microprocesseurs dans nos cerveaux Que voulez-vous ?