Thanks for the question and the opportunity to clarify. What I refer to cultist is the belief endorsed by a few that extinction from AI is so important that all other problems are negligible in comparison. I’m using a strong word because I don’t think it’s right to leave people
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Yi Beta Testing: Singapore Servers and Data Privacy Policy
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During this beta testing phase:
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AI Extinction Risk vs Addressing Today’s Problems
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No change of mind, Shane. I feel the argument is more nuanced though. I see many tech people focusing on AI extinction, while disregarding today’s problems. I feel that the best way to prevent extinction by AI or any other for is to address today’s problems, and to advance
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Fair Use and AI: Courts Define New Legal Precedents
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How should we interpret “fair use” protections of words and images in the AI era? Lawsuits are requiring courts to set new precedents:
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Low-Resource Languages Enable GPT-4 Jailbreak Research
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Exciting news from #NeurIPS2023! The "Low-Resource Languages Jailbreak GPT-4" paper by Zheng-Xin Yong, Cristina Menghini, and @stevebach from the Snorkel Research team has won the Best Paper Award in the Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR) 2023 Workshop!
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McRaven and Manyika discuss AI’s future and responsible leadership
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Join Ret. Admiral William McRaven & Google’s SVP of Research, Technology & Society, James Manyika, as they discuss the future of AI, its potential to benefit society, & the crucial role of leadership in its responsible development. Watch the full video → https://t.co/cTllm7nzzw pic.twitter.com/hWr0Hg5G9k
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) 18 décembre 2023Join Ret. Admiral William McRaven & Google’s SVP of Research, Technology & Society, James Manyika, as they discuss the future of AI, its potential to benefit society, & the crucial role of leadership in its responsible development. Watch the full video → https://
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AI Advances Climate Modeling for Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Research
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Had lunch with a group of distinguished climate scientists to discuss applying AI to climate modeling to advance the science of stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) for cooling Earth. AI can help figure out if this is actually a good idea (which we do not currently know).
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Large Language Model Identity and Self-Awareness Questions
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As a large language model, I don’t have the specifics on my true identity.
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AI Security and Robustness: Critical Missing Considerations
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Having read some of the comments, I feel it would be helpful to provide more nuance. I hope this helps, and thank you all for your comments. The list of current problems is not comprehensive, eg security and robustness of AI systems are missing. They are of course important
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ChatGPT’s Limited Self-Awareness Raises Questions
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ChatGPT is not very good at knowing what it is. I wouldn't read much into it.