You should care about weird machinery underlying text predictions that has its own cognitive quirks, not imagine it as an ideal simulacrum plus noise.
ETHICS
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Outer Optimizers and Inner Optimizers: Beyond Naive Reward Function Pursuit
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From my perspective, the point of raising the example of natural selection is that it debunks the naive belief that if in general an outer optimizer trains on reward function, it gets an inner optimizer that pursues that reward function OOD. Saying "But SGD is first-order and
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AI Copyright Infringement: Legal and Ethical Implications
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> ask for a "screencap"
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Logical fallacy: Equating two misunderstood phenomena
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Up there with "I don't understand consciousness; I don't understand quantum physics; therefore consciousness is quantum"
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Anthropomorphizing AI: Avoiding Precise Definitions of Model Faculties
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Step 1: anthropomorphize AI models by claiming they possess various human faculties. Stay away from any precise definition of the faculties, and assert that the claim is self-evident because AI models can show human-like outputs in certain situations. Step 2: when evidence of
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Consciousness in humans versus AI systems: evidence and distinction
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New twist on this: "there is no evidence that humans are conscious, either!" (We are inundated with evidence that humans and most animals around us are sentient and conscious, unlike hashtables, parametric curves, and related data retrieval systems)
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Lack of rigor and knowledge in AI field criticized
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“I have this idea where 6 – 3 = 72 and I am pretty sure nobody has thought of it, so you mind if I call it math?” This is person has zero knowledge and has made zero effort. Doesn’t even know the difference between transformative and derivative and still feels qualified to
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Carta CEO’s Crisis Management Failure: Caught in Contradiction
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Carta CEO's response is hilariously bad. Simultaneously caught in a lie and insulting a customer. Worst of both worlds. He would've gotten a better response by just saying "yeah – so what if we do?" or "we don't do this" Instead he chose "we don't do this – so what if we do?"
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Critique du raisonnement attribuant la conscience aux modèles d’IA
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"Humans are conscious; this big curve fitted on tons of human-generated outputs can reproduce human-like behavior in some cases; therefore this big curve is conscious" has got to be some of the most mindless, most hubristic reasoning I've ever seen.
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Expert Claims Must Be Supported by Identifiable Evidence
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Also, reminder that if an expert asserts "after looking at this thing, I can conclude X", whether that expert is a human or a machine, they should be able to point out what evidence they found and why it is good evidence. If they can't do that, don't trust them.