Prediction: 2024 will feel like a breakthrough year in terms of AI capability, safety, and general positivity about its potential impact. In the longer term, it'll look like just one more year on an exponential that can make everyone's lives better than anyone's today.
ETHICS
-
AI Existential Risk and Current Problems Collaboration
By
–
To be clear, I do think AI existential risk is a very important problem. I commend all my colleagues working on it. I also think there are many more current problems that a great many of my colleagues, including those working on existential risk, work on. Let us all work together
-

Personal AI Model Training and Copyright Infringement Rights
By
–
Your own personal plagiarist The Times suit against OpenAI is a precursor to every individual having the ability to appropriate copyrighted material to train their neural network, sort of like Napster twenty years ago. 2024 could be the year infringement goes viral. There are
-

Where Are We on the AI Development Curve?
By
–
The most important AI question for 2024 is where in this curve we are, the answer profoundly impacts every part of life and the future.
-

Critique de la rhétorique extrême sur l’IA et l’influence EA
By
–
This is utter madness: “If stopping malignant AI required war between nuclear-armed nations, that would be a price worth paying.” I’m glad @politico is covering the EA cult and their influence.
-
GPT-4 Capability to Recognize Knowledge Limits
By
–
was recently thinking about how good gpt-4 seems to be at knowing when it doesn't know something
-
Prominent Tech Figures Criticized for Pseudointellectual Discourse
By
–
there's something sinister about these two sharing a stage—crossover episode featuring two of the most prominent pseudointellectual grifters. they manage to emulate the structure of intelligent conversation while really saying nothing at all. hoping for better role models in 2024 https://t.co/mxod2jf2jc
— dr. jack morris (@jxmnop) 30 décembre 2023there's something sinister about these two sharing a stage—crossover episode featuring two of the most prominent pseudointellectual grifters. they manage to emulate the structure of intelligent conversation while really saying nothing at all. hoping for better role models in 2024
-
Hallucinations in AI: From Hidden Problem to Research Focus
By
–
It’s pretty cool how hallucinations emerged as a mainstream research topic due to ChatGPT’s ability to say “Sorry, I can’t answer that.” In the past (i.e., a few years ago), AI would always guess, so we would simply compute: accuracy = num_correct / num_examples. Now we are
-
Episode 1: Can Machines Learn To Behave? Part
By
–
#1: Episode 1: "Can Machines Learn To Behave?" Part 1, originally recorded on August 31, 2022 — where it all began, with @alexhanna and I giving a large, dense brick of AI hype the MST3k treatment.
