There are so many misguided people on both sides and it's turning nasty *because* of the underlying corporate exploitation. You can't just be innocent on the AI "side", as there are many sociopaths and assholes that pleasure in abusing others no matter what — part of their fun.
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Alignment’s Hard Problem: Two Decades of Misrepresentation
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Alternate take: Alignment started with the obvious observation that alignment might be hard, but the implications of this idea were outside the Overton Window, so a variety of different Pretend Serious groups spent two decades seizing on whoever could be misread for an excuse.
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AI Octopus Metaphor Criticized in Recent Coverage
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So it's extra grating to read that we "likened AI to “a hyper-intelligent deep-sea octopus.”" >>
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Octopus Intelligence and Language Understanding Beyond Form
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2. The octopus is posited to be hyperintelligent precisely because we wanted to show that no entity could learn to "understand" language based on form alone; it's doesn't matter what's inside the box. >>
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Octopus Thought Experiment: Critical Analysis of AI Understanding
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This is a decent summary of the octopus thought experiment from Bender & @alkoller 2020, with two glaring exceptions, right at the start: https://
techcrunch.com/2024/06/01/wtf
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Defining Robot Flourishing: First Step Toward Machine Feeling
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What this looks like for robots is a representation of bodily functions as flourishing or distress (the "feeling") as a grounding to learned emotion concepts. I think if an AI had a definition for flourishing, that would be a first step towards feeling "good".
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Damasio on consciousness: embodied feelings and brain representation
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Neuroscientist Damasio has a great book called Looking for Spinoza. "An organism can possess feelings only when it can create a representation of the body's functions and the related changes that occur in the brain."
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Yann Ignoring Basic Alignment Questions and Assurances
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Here's Yann ignoring the first most basic questions about his alignment plans and assurances.
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AI-Generated CSAM May Overwhelm Child Protection Tip Line
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AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material May Overwhelm Tip Line: A report by Stanford researchers cautions that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn’t have the resources to help fight the new epidemic. https://
nytimes.com/2024/04/22/tec
hnology/ai-csam-cybertipline.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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