ETHICS - AI Dynamics

Burden of Proof for AGI Claims Requires Extraordinary Evidence

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24 November 2023 6h42

Before you ask me to prove that AGI doesn't exist: The burden of proof lies w/those making the extraordinary claims. "Slightly conscious if you squint", "can generalize, learn & comprehend" are extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence, scrutinized by peer review. 18/

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24 November 2023

AGI Does Not Exist Says Critic of AI Hype

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24 November 2023 6h41

But here is where the reporting really goes off the rails. AGI is not a thing. It doesn't exist. Therefore, it can't do anything, no matter what the AI cultists say. 17/

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24 November 2023

OpenAI’s Energy Waste Computing Imprecise Text Mimicry

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@emilymbender

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24 November 2023 6h40

Also, it's kind of hilarious (lolsob) that OpenAI is burning enormous amounts of energy to take machines designed to perform calculations precisely to make them output text that mimics imprecisely the performance of calculations… & then deciding that *that* is intelligent. 16/

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24 November 2023

Making Sense of AI Output: Why We Project Meaning

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24 November 2023 6h38

(And, it bears repeating: If their output seems to make sense, it's because we're making sense of it.) 15/

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24 November 2023

LLMs produce plausible text, not genuine writing or ideas

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24 November 2023 6h38

"AI" is not "good at writing"—it's designed to produce plausible sounding synthetic text. Writing is an activity that people to do as we work to refine our ideas and share them with others. LLMs don't have ideas. 14/

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24 November 2023

Adapting to AI Era: Five Stages of Progress

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24 November 2023 6h28

The way to adapt to the era of AI is to quickly progress through the five stages.

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24 November 2023

Reducing Complex AI Topics to Single Character Identity

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24 November 2023 3h32

Is there something wrong with taking a complex and nuanced topic, thinking you can compress all that into a single character, and then making that your whole identity?

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24 November 2023

EA and AI risks: when concerns about harm go unheard

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24 November 2023 3h29

Yeah I was out walking with a friend a year or two back and he told be about this awesome EA thing he’d read about. When I told him I thought it could lead to great harm he looked at me like I’d proposed dolphin soup for dinner.

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24 November 2023