aimbivalent

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by aimbivalent 3y ago
Your comment just shows that you are still deeply caught in the propaganda. I wonder how you and people like you will psychologically cope when you'll inevitably learn the truth over the next decades. It's one thing to be wrong, i
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by aimbivalent 4y ago
The cat isn't going back into the bag. Doubly so if AGI really just requires a bigger neural net. Let says we had, globally, the political will to "ban" AI. How would that even work in practical terms? Are we going to control
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by aimbivalent 4y ago
There are so many assumption baked into your comment and most of them, I would say, don't hold up. Let's start with the biggest one which is that measures (let's say regulations) aimed at A (let's say megacorps) have the
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by aimbivalent 4y ago
I didn't say anything about a conspiracy or even forethought. It's simple incentives and power dynamics. Imagine Lagarde or Powell saying "oops, we shouldn't have printed a gazillion billion dollars, after all so please
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by aimbivalent 4y ago
hey that's pretty cool. Yeah, for sure it's worthwhile talking about what they are doing, I agree. I guess I just wish people would update their mental model to the new reality a bit quicker :)
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by aimbivalent 4y ago
I write this as a sceptic who always leaned towards the symbolic side of this debate. First seeing Open AI inventing tactics in Dota and now using GPT and other recent AI product has changed my mind. The rate of progress in the field is jus
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by aimbivalent 4y ago
This is variation on the common "it has to be perfect" argument. I don't really buy it. Right now, GPT 4 would earn a top 10% SAT score, implying that it can give very high quality answers on a range of scholarly topic. This