Tag Archives: Artificial Intelligence

To Beth on Geoff Hinton

[ 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

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

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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Humans and AGIs

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

[ 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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Bridging Real-Time Artificial Collective Superintelligence and Human Mediation

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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Lex interviews Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis: DeepMind – AI, Superintelligence & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #299 [ 2/July/22 ] Brilliant interview (again) – thanks Lex. For Demis: For me, the best definition of life is recursive levels of “search”, across … Continue reading

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AI Risk

Daniel asked – Are there any good counterarguments to Yudkowski’s AGI risk position that actually understand his position clearly? Thank you. MIRI announces new Death With Dignity strategy [ 25/April/22 ] This is somewhat analogous to the 9 dots problem. … Continue reading

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Alphafold

Lifeboat post and comment What’s next for AlphaFold and the AI protein-folding revolution linked article. [ 18/April/22 Linked from Lifeboat’s Facebook page] Best article I have seen giving insight into the complexity, usefulness and limitations of AlphaFold, and the potential … Continue reading

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Artificial Intelligence

How might we control AI, before AI controls us? [ 3/April/22 ] Wrong question! How much do you like being controlled? How much better is it to work with someone on a purpose you are both aligned to? Any talk … Continue reading

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