It may be that the best defense against these terrorists is openly accessible AI giving directions on protecting from these people. But we can't just take this for granted. This is a hard problem, and we should consider consequences seriously.
I mean, that was/is a worry about the Internet, too
On balance, it's still positive that the internet exists and people have open access to communication. We shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. But it's not an unalloyed good, we need to recognize that the technology brought some unexpected negative aspects came along with the overall positive benefit.
This also goes for, say, automobiles. It's a good thing that cars exist and middle class people can afford to own and drive them. But few people at the start of the 20th anticipated the downsides of air pollution, traffic congestion and un-walkable suburban sprawl. This doesn't mean we shouldn't have cars. It does mean we need to be cognizant of problems that arise.
So a world where regular people have access to AIs that are aligned to their own needs is better than a world in which all the AIs are aligned to the needs a few powerful corporations. But if you think there are no possible downsides to giving everyone access to superhuman intelligence without the wisdom to match, you're deluding yourself.
Why though? I can't see how modern technology's impact on human life has been a net positive. See the book Technological Slavery: https://ia800300.us.archive.org/21/items/tk-Technological-Sl...
I disagree with the author's conclusion that violence is justified. I think we're just stuck, and the best thing to do is live our lives as best as possible. But much like Marxists are really good at identifying the problems of capitalism but not at proposing great solutions (given the realities of human nature), so is the author regarding the problems of technology.
Citizens killing other citizens is the least of humanities issues. It's the governments who are the suicidal sociopaths historically who can get the un-nerfed version that is the bigger issue. Over a billion people murdered by governments/factions and their wars in the last 120 years alone.
Similar to how a board of directors runs the company even though all companies "are composed of" employees. Employees do as they are directed or they are fired.
In comparison, the 2016 Nice truck attack, which involved driving into crowds killed 84.
> network error
One is never former CIA, once you're in, you're in, even if you leave. Although he is a CompSci grad, he's also a far-right Republican.
A spook who leans far right sitting atop OpenAI is worse than Orwell's worst nightmares coming to fruition.
It's not about left wing politics.
It's more about the fact that the CIA and other law enforcement agencies, lean heavily to one side. Some of that side are funded by people or organizations whose stated goals and ideals don't really align with human rights, open markets, democracy, etc. I don't trust such people to be ethical stewards of some of the most powerful tools mankind has created to date.
I'd rather it be open sourced and the people at the top be 100% truthful in why they are there, what their goals are, and what they (especially a former CIA operative) are influencing on a corporate level relative to the product.
Disclaimer: registered independent, vocal hater of the 2 party system.
But if it says a woman is "anything that identifies as a woman", then it's still a vast right wing conspiracy?
Statistically, the odds are overwhelming that the answer is, "No effect whatsoever."
Then who benefits from keeping the subject front-and-center in your thoughts and writing? Is it more likely to be a transgender person, or a leftist politician... or a right-wing demagogue?
How does it affect me?
In a non-clown world, it wouldn't. In fact I'm happy to let anyone identify as anything, as long as I'm not compelled to pretent along with them.
But we live in a clown world and now, in some places, the truth is illegal.
Dead naming (even if the legal name) is a crime. Using the wrong pronouns is a crime. Men are competing against women (and winning) Men are winning awards and accolades meant for women. Men are going into women's changing rooms. There is a concerted effort in public schools to normalize this abnormal behavior.
Why the gender crowd hasn't caught on to replacing the first person pronouns "you", I don't know. But they will and when it happens it's going to be delicious.
If a person legally changes their name (forget gender, only name), and you refuse to use it, and insist on using the old name even after requests to stop, at some point that would become considered malicious and become harassment.
But ultimately because society and science deems that "name" is not something you're born with, but a matter of personal preference and whims, it's not a crime. You'd be an asshole, but not a criminal.
However, society and science have deemed that sexuality and gender are things you ARE born with, mostly hetero and cis, but sometimes not. So if you refuse to acknowledge these, you are committing a hateful crime against someone who doesn't have a choice in the matter.
You can disagree. But then don't claim that "you are happy to let anyone identify as anything", because you're not, not really.
> Men are competing against women (and winning). Men are winning awards and accolades meant for women.
One woman. Almost all examples everyone brings up are based on Lia Thomas [0]. I have yet to see other notable examples, never mind an epidemic of men competing against women in sports.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_Thomas
> Men are going into women's changing rooms. There is a concerted effort in public schools to normalize this abnormal behavior.
Are you talking about transgender people, or are you talking about bad faith perverts abusing self-identification laws to do this?
Because if it's the former, are you asking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaire_White to use men's changing rooms, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Angel to use women's?
If it's the latter, no denial that perverts and bad faith exceptions exist. But those people never needed an excuse to hide in women's toilets. Trans people have been using the bathrooms of their confirmed gender for decades. The only thing that's changed recently is conservatives decided to make this their new wedge issues so butch women and mothers with male children with mental handicaps that need bathroom assistance have been getting harassed.
1) I'm happy to let anyone identify as whatever.
2) I may not agree with their self identification.
I disagree with your assertion that misnaming people is harassment, as in the illegal kind. I once worked with a guy named Michael who would get bent when you called him Mike.
As you can imagine he could be tricky to work with and, on those occasions, I would call him Mike.
I repeatedly misnamed him on purpose, it wouldn't have even made HR bat an eye.
As for sports, this isn't a complete list, but I think it defeats the "one women" narrative:
"woman of the year":
Rachel Levine - USA today
Caitlyn Jenner - Glamour Magazine
Laverne Cox - Glamiur Magazine
MJ Rodriguez - Times Magazine
Men in women's sports:
Laurel Hubbard - took a spot in NZ women's team.
Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood - CT state Champs track and field
Austin Killips - wins $35k prize in bike race.
Tiffany Thomas - wins bike races at 46 against women half his age.
And there's more. A lot more.
Tell me, how do you tell the difference between who is trans in good faith and someone who claims to be trans in bad faith?
What about gender fluid people who are men one moment and women the next?
We don't know who is being accused of taking their glory, we don't know if it's 1 person or 100. We don't know if the people that supposedly defeated them is even Trans, or a CIS victim of the Trans Panic like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster_Semenya
We don't know if the women who beat these "she won" women are self-identified, have been on hormones for 2 weeks, or 20 years.
What a ludicrous transphobic panic.
Also, Caster Semenya is male, with a male-only DSD. This is a fact that was confirmed in the IAAF arbitration proceedings. Semenya's higher levels of testosterone, when compared to female athletes, are due to the presence of functional internal testes. Semenya has since fathered children.
So, your career at Dell didn't go as well as you'd hoped. Being a jerk isn't illegal, AFAIK, but at some point you run out of other people to blame for the consequences of your own beliefs and actions.
Still missing the part where the existence of Caitlyn Jenner and the relatively small number of others who were born with certain unfortunate but addressable hormonal issues is negatively affecting your life.
And it's utterly crazy to think that someone would adopt a transgender posture in "bad faith." That's the sort of change someone makes after trying everything else first, because of the obvious negative social consequences it brings. Yes, there are a few genuinely-warped people, but as another comment points out, those people are going to sneak into locker rooms and abuse children anyway.
You want to take the red pill, and see reality as it is? Try cross-correlating the local sex-offender registry with voter registration rolls. Observe who is actually doing the "grooming." Then, go back to the people who've been lying to you all along, and ask them why.
Hmmm, not sure I like that line of thinking. Plus, I already outlined how it affects me and my family members, one of which runs track in CT.
Seriously though, I did get an LOL from your Dell joke. And another one for "addressable hormonal issues". That was a new one for me.
I am truly curious about the voter role thing, I've not heard that claim before, though I have no doubt that sexual derangement comes in all forms. Can you cite a source?
Hard to find a source you'd likely accept, but maybe start here: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/04/from-hastert-to-...
It's one of those cases where it's safe to say "Do your own research," because the outcome will be unequivocal if considered in good faith (meaning if you don't rely solely on right-wing sources for the "research.") The stats aren't even close.
I'm not Jewish, so if we had a holocaust in the US I should do nothing because it doesn't affect me?
I think we're pretty much done here. Good luck on your own path through life, it sounds like a challenging one.
Most males who adopt an opposite-sex identity reach that point through repeated erotic stimulation. This is a psychological issue, driven by sexual desire.
Correlation, causation, etc.
A liberal Republican? Will Hurd's voting record speaks otherwise. In the 115th Congress, Hurd voted with Donald Trump 94.8% of the time. In the 116th Congress, that number dropped to 64.8%. That's an 80.4% average across Trump's presidency. [0] Agreeing with Donald Trump 4 times out of 5 across all legislative activities over 4 years isn't really being critical of him or his administration.
[0] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/wi...
It's like calling Dick Cheney a liberal because one of his daughters is lesbian, even though he supports all sort of other far-right legislation.
Most of alignment is about getting the AI model to be useful - ensuring that if you ask it to do something it will do the thing you asked it to do.
A completely unaligned model would be virtually useless.
How is trying to distinguish morals from values not philosophical nit-picking?
I saw the nerfing of GPT in real time: one day it was giving me great book summaries, the next one it said that it couldn't do it due to copyright.
I actually called it in a comment several months ago: copyright and other forms of control would make GPT dumb in the long run. We need an open source frontier less version.
https://chat.openai.com/share/d1cdd811-edc9-4d55-9cc1-a79215...
Not a very scientific or conclusive test to be sure, but I think I'll stick with using ChatGPT as my programming-rubber-ducky-on-steroids for now :)
For now there is no other way to train models than the huge infrastructure. CERN have a tendency to provide results for the money spend and they have experience in building the infrastructures for sure.
"How Many Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers Are There in 2019? In a recent research article, we reported that there are 250,810 MTurk workers worldwide who have completed at least one Human Intelligence Task (HIT) posted through the TurkPrime platform. More than 226,500 of these workers are based in the US."
Even if it that problem disappeared, propagating the model weight updates between training steps poses an issue in itself. It's a lot of data, at this size.
Consider something like a spiking neural network with weights & state stored on an SSD using lazy-evaluation as action potentials propagate. 4TB SSD = ~1 trillion 32-bit FP weights and potentials. There are MacBook options that support up to 8TB. The other advantage with SNN - Training & using are basically the same thing. You don't have to move any bytes around. They just get mutated in place over time.
The trick is to reorganize this damn thing so you don't have to access all of the parameters at the same time... You may also find the GPU becomes a problem in an approach that uses a latency-sensitive time domain and/or event-based execution. It gets to be pretty difficult to process hundreds of millions of serialized action potentials per second when your hot loop has to go outside of L1 and screw with GPU memory. GPU isn't that far away, but ~2 nanoseconds is a hell of a lot closer than 30-100+ nanoseconds.
Edit: fixed my crappy math above.
What pieces of tech would need to be invented to make it possible to carry a 1T model around in a device the size of an iPhone?
Seems like with minimal oversight the human workers like to just say they did the requested task and make up an answer rather than actually do it (The task involved entering an address in Google maps, looking at the street view and confirming insofar as possible if a given business actually resided at the address in question, nothing complicated)
Edit: woops, mixed in the query with another reply that mentioned the human element XD
Tit for tat and all that.
In terms of training feedback I suppose there's a few different ways of doing it. Gamification, mech turk, etc. Hell free filesharing sites could get on the action and have you complete an evaluation of a model response instead of watching an ad
It feels like people are getting ready to build castles in their mind when they just need to learn to try pulling a door if it doesn't open the first time when they push it.
Writing against the ChatGPT API is like working against an API that breaks every other week with completely undocumented changes.
Welcome to statistical randomness?
I submit the same prompt dozens of times a day and run the output through a parser. It'll work fine for weeks then I have to change the prompt because now 20% of what is returned doesn't follow the format I've specified.
A couple months ago the stories ChatGPT 3.5 returned were simple, a few sentences in each paragraph, then a conclusion. Sometimes there were interesting plot twists, but the writing style was very distinct. Same prompt now gets me dramatically different results, characters are described with so much detail that the AI runs out of tokens before the story can be finished.
AFAIK, there is literally no basis but outside speculation for this persistent claim.
It does not guarantee "unalighned" models, but it is sure will help to bust concurrency and provide infrastructure for training public models.
[1] at the 31:30 mark: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/03/1072589/video-ge...
And now it's butting heads with me. Giving answers I don't need and opinions I abhor.
What do?
I don't think the primary concern is really liability although it is possible that they'd use that kind of language. The primary concern is likely GPT helping people start competitors or GPT influencing public opinion in ways either executives or a vocal portion of their employees strongly disagree with. A genuinely open "unaligned" AI would at least allow anybody who has the necessary computing power or a distributed peer to peer network of people who have the necessary computing power to run a powerful and 100% uncensored AI model. But of course this needs to be invented ASAP because the genie needs to be out of the bottle before politicians and government bureaucrats can get around to outlawing "unaligned" AI and protecting OpenAI as a monopoly.