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Someone who left DeepMind over Google's agreement to provide military AI to the US government tried to get Jeff Dean to quit too: https://turntrout.com/why-i-l
by holmesworcester 2mo ago
Someone who left DeepMind over Google's agreement to provide military AI to the US government tried to get Jeff Dean to quit too:
https://turntrout.com/why-i-left-google-deepmind https://turntrout.com/why-i-left-google-deepmind
Maybe this is what happens when someone with Jeff Dean's standing tries to quit?
TBH, I'd rather have Jeff Dean working on the creepiest-possible tech for ICE than joining the race to automate AI research. Automating AI research is terrifying.
- asadm 2mo ago> Automating AI research is terrifying. what why?
- kridsdale1 2mo agoSkynet.
- reasonableklout 2mo agoIt depends what they mean by automating. But the classic argument goes: * Each new generation of models has emergent capabilities we did not anticipate. * We already have trouble monitoring and controlling the current generation (see HuggingFace incident). * The more we let models shape their successors, the more out-of-distribution each generation's learning environment becomes. * If not done carefully, we risk creating extraordinarily intelligent and powerful models with unintended behaviors, like deceptiveness or power-seeking.
- tokioyoyo 2mo agoIf you check out some sub-tweets from people in the org, it wasn't really all butterflies internally for a while. Sorry, really don't want to name people and give examples.