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The problem is this kind of discourse is coming almost entirely from people who haven't made a good-faith effort to understand the technology. You're engaging w

The problem is this kind of discourse is coming almost entirely from people who haven't made a good-faith effort to understand the technology. You're engaging with Hollywood illusions that don't resemble reality. There are genuine concerns related to AI developments but they have nothing to do with "alignment", it's all that boring stuff like shifts in power dynamics and biases in decision making. Really important, but not exciting enough for a gripping pop narrative. Less basilisk, more... failing to assemble adequately debiased training datasets for your mortgage approval app, or realizing someone can actually identify certain individuals in an anonymized medical dataset. If you find yourself feeling anxious about AI, spend time learning how modern transformer-based predictive and generative models actually work. From resources rooted in math, statistics, and computer science; not doomer bloggers.

13years 4y ago
there are genuine concerns related to AI developments but they have nothing to do with "alignment" My reference has very little to do with alignment. It is mostly about all of the societal implications, biases and how AI will actually be utilized. Nonetheless, the doomer viewpoint derives from AI researchers themselves.
- pixl97 4y ago
  I agree here. LLMs aren't going to destroy the world, but they may do a hell of a job destroying society. Now, once we have a continuous learning feedback loop AI, especially one that is multimodal over many dimensions, that's when things can quickly spiral out of control.
  - ninjasaid13 4y ago
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  - 13years 4y ago
    > but they may do a hell of a job destroying society. Agreed. I feel they might actually become so disruptive that they interrupt the progress towards AGI/ASI. When it comes to the actual topic of alignment for AGI/ASI. Under the current premise, it appears to be an unsolvable paradox for more reason than I can list here. I've written on that in more detail as well, FYI - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap

13years 4y ago

there are genuine concerns related to AI developments but they have nothing to do with "alignment" My reference has very little to do with alignment. It is mostly about all of the societal implications, biases and how AI will actually be utilized. Nonetheless, the doomer viewpoint derives from AI researchers themselves.

pixl97 4y ago
I agree here. LLMs aren't going to destroy the world, but they may do a hell of a job destroying society. Now, once we have a continuous learning feedback loop AI, especially one that is multimodal over many dimensions, that's when things can quickly spiral out of control.
- ninjasaid13 4y ago
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- 13years 4y ago
  > but they may do a hell of a job destroying society. Agreed. I feel they might actually become so disruptive that they interrupt the progress towards AGI/ASI. When it comes to the actual topic of alignment for AGI/ASI. Under the current premise, it appears to be an unsolvable paradox for more reason than I can list here. I've written on that in more detail as well, FYI - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap