Month: May 2023
Bard Tries to Discuss Philosophy
[Human] Hi there. I would like to have a complicated philosophical conversation. Can you please talk to me as though you were a very bright PhD student interested in neuroscience, and I am another PhD student. I’d like to teach you the words “maralia” and “maralian”. Have you ever heard them? Do you have any…
Australian Politician Julian Hill on AGI
See also: https://www.julianhillmp.com/Artificial-general-intelligence-(AGI)_06022023.html
GPT4 Brainstorms Doom
I asked GPT4 to brainstorm 50 AI doomer scenarios, and then explore 10 in more detail. It gets repetitive towards the end, as many of the issues and strategies are the same in each scenario. What additional scenarios would a smarter LLM (Large Language Model AI) think of? P.S. I tried out a new automated…
Sam Altman 8 Years Ago
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the team who created GPT4, is aware of the risks of AI and knew them 8 years ago, as shown in the blog post linked below. https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1 I don’t know if this makes him a good person to be holding the key to this technology or not. He knew, and…
Two Steps From AGI
Someone on Reddit asked me what I thought the worst-case scenario was for the burgeoning field of open-source AI.This post is an expanded version of my reply. It’s easy to identify what worries me, but not so easy to convince people that it’s a concern worth worrying about, and there are so many unknowns in…
Nick Cave on ChatGPT
Someone asked Nick Cave what he thought about a song supposedly written in his style… He was unimpressed. His own writing on the topic linked below. https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chat-gpt-what-do-you-think/ And here is some real Nick Cave, displaying real humanity…
The AI Dilemma
Geoffrey Hinton Quits Google
“Geoffrey Hinton, a VP and engineering fellow at Google and a pioneer of deep learning who developed some of the most important techniques at the heart of modern AI, is leaving the company after 10 years, the New York Times reported today.” https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/01/1072478/deep-learning-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton-quits-google/ This the guy who invented back-propagation. He has concerns about the direction…
Common Sense Revisited
Most of the common-sense deficits of GPT4 are easily remedied. The current architecture forces it to output its first impressions. Behind those first impressions is a much deeper understanding. A recent TED-talk video showing that GPT4 lacks common sense only tells half the story. The three examples below are taken from that video, which failed…