Re:Statement on AI Risk
by NateEag on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:13PM
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> The idea of a superintelligence becoming a bond villain via freelance software jobs (or, let's be honest, OnlyFans scamming) is not something I consider an existential threat. I can't find it anything other than laughable.
Finding something laughable is not a good reason to dismiss it as impossible. Indeed, it's probably a good reason to think "What am I so dangerously certain of that I find contradictory ideas comical?"
> Meanwhile, I work with LLMs every day and can only get them to print properly formatted JSON "some" of the time. Get real.
I don't think the current generation of LLMs is anything like AGI, nor an existential risk.
That doesn't mean it's impossible for some future software system to present an existential risk.
Conservative evangelical Christians find evolution laughable.
Finding something laughable is not a good reason to dismiss it as impossible. Indeed, it's probably a good reason to think "What am I so dangerously certain of that I find contradictory ideas comical?"
> Meanwhile, I work with LLMs every day and can only get them to print properly formatted JSON "some" of the time. Get real.
I don't think the current generation of LLMs is anything like AGI, nor an existential risk.
That doesn't mean it's impossible for some future software system to present an existential risk.