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Re:After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI saf... by fatherzine on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:59PM (#38396853)
"just like any other tool in hands of humans" -- the scale of damage a tool can do matters, e.g. civilization cannot withstand nukes being sold at walmart. and, of course, self learning will be here this decade.
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Re:After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI saf... by taf2 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @03:06PM (#38396931)
I agree llms are powerful but they are not explosive - conflating the two is IMO even more dangerous
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Re:After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI saf... by fatherzine on Thursday November 23, 2023 @03:12PM (#38397002)
they have the potential to take over the control systems of the explosive stuff. including the decision making processes of humans themselves.

to quote none other than sama, oct 2023: "i expect ai to be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes" https://twitter.com/sama/status/1716972815960961174

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Re:After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI saf... by spunker540 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @03:32PM (#38397190)
take any narrow capability and 'superhuman <narrow capability>' will almost certainly be possible before 'superhuman general intelligence'.

The biggest, best transformer-based LLM you could imagine, that we haven't even made yet, will still fail the basic test "what is the weather tomorrow" since a LLM has no knowledge outside it's training set.

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