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Re:Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It ... by kvetching on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:39AM (#35372522)
The thing is, there's no evidence that the current path will lead to superintelligence. It could be the case that despite feeding a trillion dollars in compute / data to a model, that we still need to hold it's hand to do anything useful.

He jumped the gun and he's really tarnished his reputation. How can anyone take him seriously after the insane rhetoric and hyperbole of this article?

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Re:Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It ... by righttoolforjob on Thursday March 30, 2023 @06:02PM (#35379392)
That's besides the point. The argument still holds. We don't want to find ourselves with our foot on an exploding mine before we stop walking across the minefield. At that point it is too late.
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Re:Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It ... by G_z9 on Friday March 31, 2023 @01:57AM (#35383163)
We don’t need evidence you dullard. The burden of evidence is on your camp. If we pause then everything will be great. But if we continue there’s a significant chance we could lose everything. Obviously the only rational thing to do is to pause until there is proof that moving forward at least Carrie’s a small risk of extinction.
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Re:Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It ... by flangola7 on Friday March 31, 2023 @02:42AM (#35383510)
> The thing is, there's no evidence that the current path will lead to superintelligence.

I don't understand how any person paying attention can think this. Just watching the jumps from GPT-2 in 2019 to GPT-4 today makes it clear as day we are rapidly drastically improving capabilities and there's no evidence we will hit a wall any time soon

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Re:Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It ... by FeepingCreature on Saturday April 01, 2023 @12:21PM (#35401484)
How can you see the clear jumps in intelligence from GPT-2 to 3 to 4 and not only not believe that this leads to superintelligence, but see no evidence that this leads to superintelligence?
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