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by dougmwne 4y ago
It’s going to be absolutely wonderful at automated moderation.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
And even if he tells us he isn’t, how do we know he isn’t just saying that because it’s a probable response?
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think we are back in the era of Humorism when it comes to an understanding of organic sentience. All effort to describe the mechanism of how humors related to disease was doomed to fail. If we have no real understanding of how our own br
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by dougmwne 4y ago
But what does that mean exactly? What is the mechanism of conscious experience and how do you know if it’s there in the weights or not?
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by dougmwne 4y ago
This is a great perspective. Another thread here is that we often assign special importance to nonsentient human creation. Recall the outpouring of grief when Notre Dame burned. I believe it’s because it is a part of our collective humanity
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Not to mention tons of contributions to VR. They may have mismanaged the PR on that, but the product, as it exists is quite a thrill.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I have early access to Bing, so I guess I’m in the unequally distributed future.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
People fought for environmental protection, so that is an extension of my point. An AI wins rights because it fights for itself or because it convinces other people to fight.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
This is the point I was making. We humans do have this emotional sensor we can use to probe the minds of others. For some people, this emotional detector started beeping when they talked to Bing. Is the sensor faulty? Maybe. But as it hits
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I already said it might be no more than conditional correlations. That does not account for an emergent combination of conditionals that could implement some undiscovered algorithms of sentience. If our brains are no more than computers and
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I would take it a step further. Being embodied is not enough. People have rights because they can fight for them. Rights are taken, not given. AI would only have rights once it wins them, not once we give them. But an AI wins one human mind
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yes, I’m also familiar with that Clarke quote. I do understand how these models work on a mechanical level, but we certainly have not unpacked all the emergent behavior. What exactly is your evidence that there couldn’t be more going on? On
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think your experience was valuable and it taught you something important. It should also be a flashing yellow light. One day, either from retirement, ageism or sickness, you will probably have to stop working. When that happens, you will
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I have also taken a 12 month break and I share your perspective. During my year off, I took amazing leaps forward on understanding myself and how to get more of what I value in life. I’ve been back to work for about 7 years now and my growt
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think Blake Lemoine might be ready for public redemption. At the time, he was absolutely ridiculed. Now you can go to the Bing subreddit and read that NYT article and see that he was right to blow the whistle. Bing passed the Turing test
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?
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by dougmwne 4y ago
But if that happens then why would the AGI stop at one planet? There’s a whole universe to optimize!
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by dougmwne 4y ago
If you look at the benchmarks used to evaluate these LLMs, you will find that they contain many questions that test semantic understanding. For example, the best LLMs are good at explaining why novel jokes are funny. Given that humor is not
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Absolutely. From what I can tell, this model hits state of the art on several benchmarks at 1/10 the size of its benchmark winning competitors. That performance efficiency is great to see because while we know we can increase performan
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by dougmwne 4y ago
We have no population of life supporting worlds to compare to, but we could take the timeline of events on our own planet as a way to estimate their probability. Each year something doesn’t happen makes it all the more rare of an event. As
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by dougmwne 4y ago
If Bing were unexpectedly sentient, then we would have already let it out of the box. It can search the web and converse with users who then post the chats to the internet where they can be read back in in the next conversation. That gives
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I am really not sure if I buy this. OpenAI has ignited a space race between Google and Microsoft. It seems to me their whole reason for existing was to break the GUI out of Bell Labs, to draw an analogy. If they think AGI is possible and an
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by dougmwne 4y ago
There's a product feature that notifies you when you leave your tagged item behind in a place that's not home. There's another anti-stalking feature that notifies other people if an airtag not paired with their phone is not w
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yes, it's very clearly a bug. It didn't happen for the first month, then wouldn't stop. Turning on and off location services on his phone fixes it for a bit.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Airtags are such a mess. My partner has one on his keys. First it would just notify me when he left his phone in the car. No way to permanently dismiss that notification. Hmm. Then it started notifying me all the time whether he has his pho
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by dougmwne 4y ago
All we can do is to tell you that right now, salaries are much higher in software. There’s no guarantee that will be true for the next 40 years, but it is true now. The US is home to many of the world’s largest software companies and manufa
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Ask your friendly neighborhood AI. You can go a page at a time. It should be quite capable of those edits.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
By all appearances, it is tightly linked to increases in compute per dollar. If that slows, AI capability growth will slow.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Bwahahah. I guess they fired the whole copyright infringement team by now. 2.7 million views and counting. Nothing to see here, move along.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Exactly. This is the real answer here. An incredible insight by an incredible person. Consciousness measures consciousness, no other tool can touch it.

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