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>You can't remotely detect that somebody is training an AI. There are training runs in progress that will use billions of dollars of electricity and GPUs. Quit
by hollerith 2y ago
>You can't remotely detect that somebody is training an AI.
There are training runs in progress that will use billions of dollars of electricity and GPUs. Quite detectable -- and stoppable by any government that wants to stop such things from happening on territory it controls.
And certainly we can reduce the economic incentive for investing money on such a run by banning AI-based services like ChatGPT.
- milesrout 2y agoAnd none of them want to do that. Why would they! AI is perfectly safe. The idea it will take over the world is ludicrous and all "AI safety" in practice seems to mean is censoring it so it won't make jokes about women or ethnic minorities.
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- hollerith 2y agoYes, as applied to the current generation of AIs, "safety" and "alignment" refer to things like preventing the product from making jokes about women or ethnic minorities, but that is because the current generation is not powerful enough to threaten human safety and human survival. The OP in contrast is about what will happen if the labs succeed in their stated goal of creating AIs that are much more powerful.
- Sophira 2y agoI think we all know this is going to happen, though. We have AIs that are capable of self-correcting the code that they write, and people have built automatic interfaces for them to receive errors that they get from compilation. We also have interfaces that can allow an AI to use a Linux terminal. It's not a stretch to imagine that somebody out there is at this very moment using these in a way that would allow an AI to be fully autonomous with creating, running, and testing its own software using unit tests it wrote itself. And while the current status of AI means that such a program is likely to just not work, you have to admit that we are very, very close to the threshold point where it will work. This on its own is not enough to threaten human safety, but toss in some bad human decisions...
- concordDance 2y agoCurrent AIs are safe. Will the ones in 5 years be, 20 years?
- jandrewrogers 2y ago> use billions of dollars of electricity and GPUs For now. Qualitative improvements in efficiency are likely to change what is required.