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"AGI" is now a bastardized term that has been appropriated by for-profit companies, and it's basically a really advanced smart tool for cognitive tasks. That's

by proc0 2y ago

"AGI" is now a bastardized term that has been appropriated by for-profit companies, and it's basically a really advanced smart tool for cognitive tasks. That's impressive and will change the world but it no longer means a human-like intelligent agent which is what people were worried about when the term first emerged. AI alignment is overblown at least for this current iteration of it. It's going take one or two more theoretical breakthroughs that might add goal oriented agency to a persistent, real-time AI, and that's when we can start worrying about what it wants and how it will interact with the world. Until then LLMs are just regular software that need to be executed and then terminate once it has processed an input.

quickbronce 2y ago
What are you talking about???? A human with AI is literally a "human-like intelligent agent", man. What you tried to say is that you (some argue, mistakenly) understand that LLMs are not a suprahuman, supersubjective entity. What I see is that we are heading exactly there, and also seemingly in the opposite direction, by default. Let me explain. Take Grok, for example. It is a will curated by Elon Musk and his team that nourishes off the POV of everything they feed it and what we put into X. Have you seen what users fed it regarding Indians and American migration over Christsmas? I know AI is in its infancy, and I understand more now (I hadn't been paying attention) to what Sam Altman said about the decision to deploy it little by little to the laymen. The problem is not that a Terminator robot army goes rogue "on its own" and kill us, the problem is that the race towards AGI finds us casually or inevitably in a multipolar moment of international politics. Unlike a few years ago, when the US had the upper hand IN THE ENTIRE WORLD to shape it as they desired, now that they have long fucked it up we have many opposing factions. Russia is awake, it was never defused. China and India are growing up, Europe is dying, Africa is a Mess, Latin America is America's dumpster as it's alway's been (with a few pockets of mildly concerning foreign influence) and the US is A COMPLETE MESS. There is a lot of corruption, stupidity and internal quarrels in the most powerful country in the world. So where are we headed? Will there be a semi-autonomous war between the strongest leaders (bee assassins going after Trump, Putin and Xi, after Altman or Musk?), and what about the weaker or least developed peoples like Latin Americans and Africans? Many have great pride and may not comply happily if the Boss is self-centered enough. So who will be boss? Elon? Sam? Microsoft's CFO? Trump? An Arab Leader? A Muslim? An infidel? Will left and right wingers happily comply? The danger is not a godlike entity but us, humans with subjective interests. And Capital as of now is concentrating over the dividing road, in the multipolar world. Can we pivot towards decentralized efforts to create an AI company that has as an absolute priority to lift most if not all people up, and leave those who want to be out, peacefully out?

by proc0 2y ago

quickbronce 2y ago

What are you talking about???? A human with AI is literally a "human-like intelligent agent", man. What you tried to say is that you (some argue, mistakenly) understand that LLMs are not a suprahuman, supersubjective entity. What I see is that we are heading exactly there, and also seemingly in the opposite direction, by default. Let me explain. Take Grok, for example. It is a will curated by Elon Musk and his team that nourishes off the POV of everything they feed it and what we put into X. Have you seen what users fed it regarding Indians and American migration over Christsmas? I know AI is in its infancy, and I understand more now (I hadn't been paying attention) to what Sam Altman said about the decision to deploy it little by little to the laymen. The problem is not that a Terminator robot army goes rogue "on its own" and kill us, the problem is that the race towards AGI finds us casually or inevitably in a multipolar moment of international politics. Unlike a few years ago, when the US had the upper hand IN THE ENTIRE WORLD to shape it as they desired, now that they have long fucked it up we have many opposing factions. Russia is awake, it was never defused. China and India are growing up, Europe is dying, Africa is a Mess, Latin America is America's dumpster as it's alway's been (with a few pockets of mildly concerning foreign influence) and the US is A COMPLETE MESS. There is a lot of corruption, stupidity and internal quarrels in the most powerful country in the world. So where are we headed? Will there be a semi-autonomous war between the strongest leaders (bee assassins going after Trump, Putin and Xi, after Altman or Musk?), and what about the weaker or least developed peoples like Latin Americans and Africans? Many have great pride and may not comply happily if the Boss is self-centered enough. So who will be boss? Elon? Sam? Microsoft's CFO? Trump? An Arab Leader? A Muslim? An infidel? Will left and right wingers happily comply? The danger is not a godlike entity but us, humans with subjective interests. And Capital as of now is concentrating over the dividing road, in the multipolar world. Can we pivot towards decentralized efforts to create an AI company that has as an absolute priority to lift most if not all people up, and leave those who want to be out, peacefully out?