Good morning to the UK! I will be speaking with @jamestplunkett at noon BST today about the social, environmental, and labor impacts of AI, and the government's role in addressing them. Join us at the registration link below.
ETHICS
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Voting to Change AI System Governance
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Then maybe, we (people, voters) should vote to change the system (?)
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LLMs positioned mid-way between capabilities and limitations
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I would disagree here, based on current LLM capabilities and failure cases, I would place them mid-way. They are genuinely "in-between"
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Understanding Differs from Compression: Prediction and Action Across Contexts
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No, compression is a means, understanding is an ability. You understand something if you can correctly make predictions and take action across all relevant situations
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Deep Learning Abstractions Limited to Local Generalization Across Domains
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These weakly abstract models can generalize, but only locally so. They still break down upon simple problem modifications or when encountering novel problems. This has been true of all deep learning generated abstractions, across every domain and across all architectures.
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Tech solutions recreating 1984 surveillance dystopia
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It’s funny how the solution to 1984 looks a lot like *checks notes* 1984
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AI Company Executives’ Psychological Denial Before ChatGPT Era
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The psychology there is weirder and would be a long story to describe (my guesses about). They signed up to be AI company execs before ChatGPT existed, when these issues could not be discussed in general public, and formed weird twisted internal denials accordingly.
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AI Executives Exaggerate Risk Claims for Venture Capital
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Are AIcorp execs saying that their AI is so powerful that it might destroy the world, in order to raise venture capital? Of course! So ignore them one way or the other, and listen to the researchers who resigned burning their bridges and the scientists who never worked there,
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Elon Musk challenged on propaganda ethics and agenda-driven messaging
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Hey @Elonmusk
, your guy is saying it is a-ok to make up propaganda. What do you think? All good, as long as it supports your agenda? -
AI Forecasting Agent Predicts Superintelligence Extinction Risk by 2050
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This is a cool forecasting AI agent (supposedly comparable to human forecasters). I asked it: "What is the estimated probability that by the year 2050, artificial intelligence, including potential superintelligent AI, will become uncontrollable and cause human extinction?"