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There's no real acknowledgement in this conversation of the existential threat. I would recommend listening to Eliezer Yudkowsky on the subject [1] [2]: > If s
by gregwebs 4y ago
There's no real acknowledgement in this conversation of the existential threat. I would recommend listening to Eliezer Yudkowsky on the subject [1] [2]:
> If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter.
> There’s no proposed plan for how we could do any such thing and survive. OpenAI’s openly declared intention is to make some future AI do our AI alignment homework. Just hearing that this is the plan ought to be enough to get any sensible person to panic. The other leading AI lab, DeepMind, has no plan at all.There’s no proposed plan for how we could do any such thing and survive. OpenAI’s openly declared intention is to make some future AI do our AI alignment homework. Just hearing that this is the plan ought to be enough to get any sensible person to panic. The other leading AI lab, DeepMind, has no plan at all.
It is a valid criticism that Yudkowsky and others are over-staging the abilities of current day GPT. For example Eliezer says "can it reason? It can play chess". But I looked at a GPT chess game (actually published in an article on his less wrong site). GPT has no idea how to play chess. It can make some moves in the opening that match opening theory which it has been trained on. But then it will lose a piece because it has no actual ability to think 2 moves ahead. And then when it gets into the end game it tries to make illegal king moves.
As impressive as GPT is, this does not seem to be an AGI that can properly understand and reason, and I am even skeptical that the current LLM models will lead to this. We have many years before AGI wipes us out :) I really don't know anything about AI though and we never know when the next breakthrough advance will occur.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaTRHFaaPG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaTRHFaaPG8
[2] https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/ https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...