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LLM Hallucinations: Context Understanding and Grounding Reality

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24 November 2023 10h43

LLM hallucinations are different thing than human hallucinations. LLM is just missing the context, and because it’s a generative AI, it fills the gap. Future LLMs will be more aligned to understanding the context and they will be more grounded to reality, so they won’t

Labor Exploitation, Mass Surveillance, and Environmental Impact in AI Systems

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24 November 2023 6h47

Whose labor is being exploited? How is mass surveillance being extended and normalized? What are the impacts to the natural environment and information ecosystem? 26/

TESCREAL Acronym Explained: AI Existential Risks Framework

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24 November 2023 6h45

If TESCREAL as an acronym is unfamiliar, start with this excellent talk by @timnitgebru
, reporting on joint work with @xriskology connecting the dots: 22/

OpenAI’s Existential Risk Rhetoric and Transhumanist Culture

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24 November 2023 6h43

Next stop: both-sides-ing reporting of "existential risk". OpenAI is deep within the TESCERAList cult. It's staffed by people who actually believe they're creating autonomous thinking machines, that humans might merge with one day, live as uploaded simulations, etc. 19/

OpenAI’s Energy Waste Computing Imprecise Text Mimicry

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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/

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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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.