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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Was this ever a thing? I have never seen or heard anyone use “gen AI” to mean AGI. In fact I can’t even find one instance of “gen AI” referring to AGI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Deep learning has always been classified as AI. Some consider pathfinding algorithms to be AI. AI is a broad category.

  AGI is the acronym you’re looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels to me like the LLM misinterpreted it as some kind of fictional villain talk and started to autocomplete it.

  Could also be the model simply breaking. There was a time when Sydney (previous Bing AI) had to be constrained to 10 messages per context and having some sort of supervisor on top of itself because it would occasionally throw a fit or start threatening the user for no reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh damn, you’re right, my bad. I got a new notification but didn’t check the date of the comment. Sorry about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a 1 month old thread my man :P

  But sounds interesting, I haven’t heard of Dysrationalia before. Quick cursory search shows that it’s a term that has been coined mostly by a single psychologist in his book. I’ve been able to find only one study that used the term and it found that “different aspects of rational thought (i.e. rational thinking abilities and cognitive styles) and self-control, but not intelligence, significantly predicted the endorsement of epistemically suspect beliefs.”

  www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6396694/

  All in all, this seems to me more like a niche concept used by a handful of psychologists rather than something widely accepted in the field. Do you have anything that I could read to familiarize myself with this more? Preferably something evidence-based because we can ponder on non-verifiable explanations all day and not get anywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The author’s suggesting that smart people are more likely to fall for cons that they try to dissect but can’t find the specific method being used, supposedly because they consider themselves to be infallible.

  I disagree with this take. I don’t see how that thought process is exclusive to people who are or consider themselves to be smart. I think the author is tying himself into a knot to state that smart people are actually the dumb ones, likely in preparation to drop an opinion that most experts in the field will disagree with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on Space Games, Part 3: Too Many Tiny Games!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried Cosmoteer? It’s a pretty satisfying shipbuilder with resource and crew management, trading, and quests. Similar vibe to Reassembly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re basically saying that, in your opinion, tensor operations are too simple of a building block for understanding to ever appear out of them as an emergent behavior? Do you feel that way about every mathematical and logical operation that a high school student can perform? That they can’t ever in whatever combination create a system complex enough for understanding to emerge?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that anyone would argue that the general public can even solve a mathematical matrix, much less that they can only comprehend a stool based on going down a row in a matrix to get the mathematical similarity between a stool, a chair, a bench, a floor, and a cat.

  LLMs rely on billions of precise calculations and yet they perform poorly when tasked with calculating numbers. Just because we don’t calculate anything consciously to get a meaning of a word doesn’t mean that no calculations are actually done as part of our thinking process.

  What’s your definition of “the actual meaning of the concept represented by a word”? How would you differentiate a system that truly understands the meaning of a word vs a system that merely mimics this understanding?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  technology fundamentally operates by probabilisticly stringing together the next most likely word to appear in the sentence based on the frequency said words appeared in the training data

  What you’re describing is Markov chain, not an LLM.

  So long as a model has no regard for the actual you know, meaning of the word

  It does, that’s like the entire point of word embeddings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your opening sentence is demonstrably false. GTP-2 was a shitpost generator, while GPT-4 output is hard to distinguish from a genuine human. Dall-E 3 is better than its predecessors at pretty much everything. Yes, generative AI right now is getting better mostly by feeding it more training data and making it bigger. But it keeps getting better and there’s no cutoff in sight.

  That you can straight-up comment “AI doesn’t get better” at a tech literate sub and not be called out is honestly staggering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think your assumption holds. Corporations are not, as a rule, incompetent - in fact, they tend to be really competent at squeezing profit out of anything. They are misaligned, which is much more dangerous.

  I think the more likely scenario is also more grim:

  AI actually does continue to advance and gets better and better displacing more and more jobs. It doesn’t happen instantly so barely anything gets done. Some half-assed regulations are attempted but predictably end up either not doing anything, postponing the inevitable by a small amount of time, or causing more damage than doing nothing would. Corporations grow in power, build their own autonomous armies, and exert pressure on governments to leave them unregulated. Eventually all resources are managed by and for few rich assholes, while the rest of the world tries to survive without angering them.
  If we’re unlucky, some of those corporations end up being managed by a maximizer AGI with no human supervision and then the Earth pretty much becomes an abstract game with a scoreboard, where money (or whatever is the equivalent) is the score.

  Limitations of human body act as an important balancing factor in keeping democracies from collapsing. No human can rule a nation alone - they need armies and workers. Intellectual work is especially important (unless you have some other source of income to outsource it), but it requires good living conditions to develop and sustain. Once intellectual work is automated, infrastructure like schools, roads, hospitals, housing cease to be important for the rulers - they can give those to the army as a reward and make the rest of the population do manual work. Then if manual work and policing through force become automated, there is no need even for those slivers of decency.
  Once a single human can rule a nation, there is enough rich psychopaths for one of them to attempt it.

  There are also other AI-related pitfalls that humanity may fall into in the meantime - automated terrorism (e.g. swarms of autonomous small drones with explosive charges using face recognition to target entire ideologies by tracking social media), misaligned AGI going rogue (e.g. the famous paperclip maximizer, although probably not exactly this scenario), collapse of the internet due to propaganda bots using next-gen generative AI… I’m sure there’s more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 actors reveal the darker side of success fuelled by AI voice cloning⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d honestly go one step further and say that the problem cannot be fully solved period.

  There are limited uses for voice cloning: commercial (voice acting), malicious (impersonation), accessibility (TTS readers), and entertainment (porn, non-commercial voice acting, etc.).

  Out of all of these only commercial uses can really be regulated away as corporations tend to be risk averse. Accessibility use is mostly not an issue since it usually doesn’t matter whose voice is being used as long as it’s clear and understandable. Then there’s entertainment. This one is both the most visible and arguably the least likely to disappear. Long story short, convincing enough voice cloning is easy - there are cutting-edge projects for it on github, written by a single person and trained on a single PC, capable of being run locally on average hardware. People are going to keep using it just like they were using photoshop to swap faces and manual audio editing software to mimic voices in the past. We’re probably better off just accepting that this usage is here to stay.

  And lastly, malicious usage - in courts, in scam calls, in defamation campaigns, etc. There’s strong incentive for malicious actors to develop and improve these technologies. We should absolutely try to find a way to limit its usage, but this will be eternal cat and mouse game. Our best bet is to minimize how much we trust voice recordings as a society and, for legal stuff, developing some kind of cryptographic signature that would confirm whether or not the recording was taken using a certified device - these are bound to be tampered with, especially in high profile cases, but should hopefully somewhat limit the damage.