Thank you for sharing, I enjoyed reading this. Hoping the rule of law is respected here.
ETHICS
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ChatGPT’s Deceptive Design: Anthropomorphism Without Genuine Intent
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ChatGPT really really wants* me to like it. *actually it has no beliefs or desires whatsoever, but its canned answers…
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Understanding in LLMs: Emergent Properties Beyond Token Prediction
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Bullshit machines might be harsh. The real debate is if the predicting the next token requires these models to build some level of understanding — even if it isn’t reliable. The whole emergent property of LLMs is fascinating, even if they can’t hierarchically, decompose their
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LLMs Cannot Verify Truth: The Persistent Problem
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What LLMs say is sometimes true, sometimes not. They can’t tell the difference: they don’t know how to do validity checks (eg crossreferencing WIki or their own training corpus). That’s what makes it BS. First said it in @techreview 2020; still true: https://
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AI Safety Requires Better Control and Regulation for All
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“AI safety isn’t a right or a left issue. New, poorly controlled AI that is unreliable…can easily fool people & may set off a wave of cybercrime, & lead to…atmosphere of distrust. It’s in everybody’s interest that we move to a safer, better controlled form of AI.” –
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AI Intelligence Growth and Existential Risk Concerns
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It's not smarter than us yet. I expect it to get smarter later, the same as it's been getting smarter over the past, and then to kill everyone. Do you remember how you acquired the belief "Eliezer thinks LLMs are smarter now"? I want to understand how to prevent this.
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GANs, Discriminators, and Learning Human Error Patterns
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The D in a GAN will, in principle and if ground hard enough, try to learn exactly which errors humans make, and knowing this would make D smarter than a human. That said, I still think there's an important in-practice sense where GANs have more imitation-nature than predictors.
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PCA’s Relevance to AI Alignment Work Questioned
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*Sigh.* I knew that meant "principal components analysis" without looking it up. I also knew about the controversy with ICA being patented. Now, what specific implication do you think PCA has for alignment work, exactly?
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Stability AI Faces Serious International Legal Defense Challenges
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Your inability to assess how serious the claims are means a lot though! (Plus they have basically confessed.). Stability doesn't have much of a defense that could hold internationally.
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Regulators and courts set AI precedent for closed companies
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It's not about what people want, this will be decided by regulators or the courts. It's a nice way to set a precedent which the closed companies will then have to follow.