So many people are confused about the relation between human cognitive errors and LLM hallucinations that I wrote this short explainer: Humans say things that aren't true for many different reasons
• Sometimes they lie
• Sometimes they misremember things
• Sometimes they fail
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Human Cognitive Errors vs LLM Hallucinations Explained
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ASI Economic Gains and Existential Risk Scenarios
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If they weren't going to kill everyone, and everyone stayed employed, competition would arise and the public would capture more of the gains from trade. It's the part where ASIs kill everyone that's a valid problem; or in a theoretically possible shorter term, a scenario where
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Big Tech’s Defense Contractor Role and State Surveillance Provision
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Extremely important research. It's not possible to understand the state of BigTech, or its pathologies at the moment, without understanding these companies' transformation into defense contractors, in addition to their central role as surveillance providers to the state.
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Unbounded Rewards Drive General Intelligence Development
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Every unbounded reward function about a complicated topic is a demand for general intelligence if you optimize hard enough. Natural selection didn't explicitly select hominids using IQ tests. It just turns out that general intelligence is a simple solution to "chip stone
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Base Models Predict Individuals, Not Average Humans
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Also, even the current base models are in-principle being trained to predict every individual human on the Internet, not to imitate an average human on the Internet, and performance at that task would not saturate at human-level intelligence. https://
lesswrong.com/posts/nH4c3Q9t
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AI defense spending and surveillance law face limited opposition
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Which makes it odd to see little/no pushback from most of this camp re the AI defense gold rush/NDAA tech allocations, the passage of 702 surveillance abuse into law, etc.
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Women in Tech Face Persistent Workplace Challenges and Barriers
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In tech fields, from first-time software engineers to VPs, working #women face numerous challenges. These obstacles are common to women in many disciplines. This cartoon depicts the experience many women face as they pursue a career in #tech #womenintech https://
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Generative AI Security Risks: Consumer Data Privacy Concerns
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Consumers are increasingly using #generativeAI tools from creating meal plans to asking for medical advice and inputting sensitive information into #AI systems, potentially exposing themselves to security and fraud risks. #DataPrivacy #CyberSecurity #IoT https://
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Generative AI Models Lack Safeguards Against Misuse
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The rapid rise of generative #AI models is exciting. However, these powerful tools often lack robust safeguards against misuse. Examples include generating deceptive content and launching novel attacks based on user prompts. #GenAI #CyberSecurity #Tech https://
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Musk sues OpenAI over proprietary shift from open-source roots
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#AI has produced a new fight between open and proprietary #tech. Elon Musk sued ChatGPT creator #OpenAI, claiming that what he had donated to as an #opensource organisation had become a “closed-source de facto subsidiary” of Microsoft. #GenAI #IoT https://
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