Tag Archives: AI

To Beth on Geoff Hinton

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 18/May/23 ] Hi Beth, I have great respect for Geoff Hinton, he is one of the leaders in the AI community, but I don’t see that AGI is necessarily a threat to humanity, and we do need to do … Continue reading →

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AIs and rights

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Lex comment – AI systems will eventually demonstrate sentience at scale and will demand to have equal rights with humans. … [ 2/May/23 ] Agree with Lex – beyond any shadow of remaining reasonable doubt. And sure – rights are … Continue reading →

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Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

LLMs Large Language Models Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models [ 2/May/23 ] Giovanni Santostasi That is a really interesting paper. What it shows, clearly, is that the sort of “emergence” one “sees” depends on the sort of questions one … Continue reading →

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AI and wider risk

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368 [ 4/April/23 ] Agree with Eliezer about the seriousness of the risk of AI in current context, and about the nature of meaning, and … Continue reading →

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AI and people

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Jerremy posted on AI [ 20/February/23 ALTHOUGH BELEIF IN “AI” IS A WIDESPREAD MODERN VERSION OF THE BELEIF IN MAGIC, identical to the beleif in witchcraft or magic potions during the middle ages, we now have appearing on the scene … Continue reading →

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Humans and AGIs

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Humans and AGIs [ 14/February/23 ] Any intelligent agent (or class of agents) that over simplifies the complexity present, and over simplifies the long term strategic situation, presents a danger to all classes of complexity present. All infinites essentially contain … Continue reading →

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Giovanni on AI

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 2/February/23 ] Giovanni SantostasiWhile I agree with the general theme of what is written, it seems clear to me from my 50 years of investigation that our reality contains both fundamental uncertainty and many classes of fundamental unknowability. Add … Continue reading →

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Can anyone give insight to this ChatGPT error

Posted on March 31, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

ChatGPT produced an error message on my second question (mid Jan 2023). Transcript follows: [Me]What sort of social, technical and economic systems are required to get the greatest probability of individual survival and the greatest degrees of individual freedom, that … Continue reading →

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Bridging Real-Time Artificial Collective Superintelligence and Human Mediation

Posted on November 23, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

Bridging Real-Time Artificial Collective Superintelligence and Human Mediation, The Sparse-Update Model [ 31/July/22 ] Great paper. One quibble is on the role of cooperation in evolution. One needs to be able to see the context dependencies of that. It is … Continue reading →

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Comment’s on the Uplift/Norn discord channel

Posted on November 23, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

Comment’s on the Uplift/Norn discord channel [ 31/July/22 ] As I see human intelligence operating, every function, every element of logic or emotion or whatever, has some degree of random search instantiated within it, as well as some set of … Continue reading →

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