We discussed the Japanese case in the paper. It’s not the haven you imagine. It’s tiresome tbh when people are really exercised by an issue but won’t take a 18 minutes to read a really good summary that came out yesterday, and instead just make uninformed shit up.
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Artificial Intelligence Privacy Challenges in Schools
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#ArtificialIntelligence stirs privacy challenges for schools https://
zurl.co/fYOB via @politico #AI #CES #CES2024 #MWC24 #IoT #5G #FutureOfWork @CES @Paula_Piccard @gvalan @Hal_Good @FinMKTG @FrRonconi @JBarbosaPR @albertogaruccio @FinMKTG -
Eliezer Yudkowsky Disputes Misinterpretation of His AI Theory
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I straightforwardly deny that my theory says that GPT gets worse at generalization with more parameters; she doesn't understand where or when my story about an AI deciding to kill us has the murder enter into it. Given that I'm unimpressed by her claim above, what should I think
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GPT Evolution: Beyond Stochastic Parrots with Scaling
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GPT-3, GPT-3.5, GPT-4. How blind would you have to be, to look at whatever has increased with the version number, and see only a "stochastic parrot" with a bigger memory?
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Half of All Skills Become Outdated Within Two Years
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Half Of All Skills Will Be Outdated Within Two Years, Study Suggests https://
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drick/2023/10/14/half-of-all-skills-will-be-outdated-within-two-years-study-suggests/?sh=7a38de2b2dc2
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Missing the Point of AI Safety Concerns About Superintelligence
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Sure, but also, utterly missing the point of notkilleveryoneism which is the concern about an AI that is smarter than all the little humans.
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AI Systems Imagined Without Internal Mechanisms or Properties
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This post is an utter case in point. The supposed AI is imagined to have absolutely no internal properties or machinery, just a blank causeless property of faithfully predicting what the programmers hoped it would predict.
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Predicting Advanced AI Impact: Learning from Recent Progress
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One challenge with predicting the impact of a future technology is anticipating how the world will change in the interim. Describing Uber before the Internet, smartphones, and GPS seems quite hard—and yet for advanced AI we must. Fortunately, lots to learn from recent progress.
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Robot Safety: Would You Trust Scissors Near Your Face?
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Happy for a robot to use scissors near your face?