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I also got 8 wrong, that's funny
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They should have had a 100 percent bet the farm confidence level
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Which 95% did you get wrong?
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In fact I still don't believe it. Next you're gonna tell me that their knees are actually ankles
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you
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i got the flamingo one right. i remember watching an episode of the magic school bus where arnold turns orange from eating too many cheetos or something like that
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https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/y ... nd-poverty this feels convincing
which makes me want to read things that argue against it but https://www.academia.edu/1338040/A_Sear ... f_Georgism like i'm gonna read that let alone https://ideas.repec.org/a/kap/revaec/v2 ... 1-461.html a reply to it
which makes me want to read things that argue against it but https://www.academia.edu/1338040/A_Sear ... f_Georgism like i'm gonna read that let alone https://ideas.repec.org/a/kap/revaec/v2 ... 1-461.html a reply to it
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https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/t ... ne-culture oh boy
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Thanks for posting this. I am now cautiously optimistic that NPR will not be woke racial issues 24/7 until the heat death of the universe.Crunchums wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 2:43 am https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/t ... ne-culture oh boy
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The real conversation is about iron stars
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Gaining a life every time a player casts a red spell is as real as it gets.
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Wow that is high quality even for GPT-2.
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Deep Leffen uses GPT-3 now, and it's really impressive (even if the results are curated)
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imo that is not even close to peak-funny levels for that account
(i just posted it because Moloch. oh hey there's more of them
https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40 ... yped_query )
two of my favorites:
https://twitter.com/DeepLeffen/status/1 ... 4438643713
https://twitter.com/DeepLeffen/status/1 ... 6256775168
(i just posted it because Moloch. oh hey there's more of them
https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40 ... yped_query )
two of my favorites:
https://twitter.com/DeepLeffen/status/1 ... 4438643713
https://twitter.com/DeepLeffen/status/1 ... 6256775168
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i enjoyed this https://liminalwarmth.com/on-the-assaul ... -memeplex/ and also "Moloch" is in it
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the thing i've never understood about the risk of a super-AI is, ok, you can build AIs that are superhuman at individual tasks like Chess or Go or videogames or whatever. but those are very well defined sorts of problems - there are discrete game states, win conditions are clear, etc. and GPT is impressive, but ultimately it's just spitting out some output based on some input. I don't get how that's ever getting you to something that's actually capable of understanding the real world in all it's complexity.
my best understanding is that's it's something like: human brains are capable of that understanding, so AI having that sort of understanding is definitely possible. which i buy. but i don't see how AlphaZero/GPT gets us any closer to that beyond "hey look there is progress being made in the field of ML"
my best understanding is that's it's something like: human brains are capable of that understanding, so AI having that sort of understanding is definitely possible. which i buy. but i don't see how AlphaZero/GPT gets us any closer to that beyond "hey look there is progress being made in the field of ML"
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That's all you're doing too.
Nobody is capable of this.I don't get how that's ever getting you to something that's actually capable of understanding the real world in all it's complexity.
GPT proves that many problems we thought of as "higher thought" can be reduced to complicated pattern-matching. For example, did you know that GPT-3 can write code?my best understanding is that's it's something like: human brains are capable of that understanding, so AI having that sort of understanding is definitely possible. which i buy. but i don't see how AlphaZero/GPT gets us any closer to that beyond "hey look there is progress being made in the field of ML"
And you can of course try to explain how it's not really writing code, right, it's just "spitting out some output based on some input". But when you didn't yet know that GPT-3 can do this, if I asked you if a simple GPT-type deep learning system could do this, you would have thought obviously not. I thought obviously not. I thought writing code based on a simple and somewhat vague description of the desired result would be evidence of "true AI".
Well, I guess it's not. But what's actually happening is that we've been forced backwards again in our God Of The Gaps-style strategy of defining real thinking as "whatever humans can do but machines can't".
It used to be that the test of true intelligent AI was the Turing Test. Then machines passed the Turing Test, and we decided that oh, that was not good enough actually.
Writing code is not good enough anymore either.
What is good enough? What defines "true AI" or "real thought"? (It has to be something testable, no handwaving about "being aware of its own existence" please.)
The answer is we don't know, but the REAL answer is that we don't want to say because the gaps are rapidly getting smaller and narrower. The God Of The Gaps that is "actual thought" or "self-consciousness" or "real understanding" or "true AI" is sort of... vanishing.
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in a sense, but my inputs are not discrete. the real world is not like a game of a chess or a block of text. and i get that from a certain point of view you can just say "yeah it is, they're both just data", but i still think that those two problems (chess and spitting out text based on a prompt) are in some sense less complicated than starcraft or paperclip maximization.
i mean a less strict meaning of "understanding" than you do. i'm talking about the level of understanding where if you ask me to be a paperclip maximizer, i could take action in pursuit of that goal. chess is a game of perfect information and when you move a bishop you know exactly what that means. text is what it is. buying a paperclip factory (for example) is "fuzzier"Nobody is capable of this.I don't get how that's ever getting you to something that's actually capable of understanding the real world in all it's complexity.
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general intelligence is not defined with respect to any specific task! that's what makes it general
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I don't think anybody knows exactly how to test someone else for sentience, but nonetheless we should make Data a lieutenant in Starfleet and let him command the Enterprise when everyone else is absent
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Did you check the code writing example I linked? That was a fuzzy description! That's the impressive thing. It didn't translate a precise specification into code. That would have also been impressive, but what it did was way more mindblowing: it took a human-style explanation of what it needed to do, and then did it, making judgement calls just like a human would have done.Crunchums wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 9:21 pm i mean a less strict meaning of "understanding" than you do. i'm talking about the level of understanding where if you ask me to be a paperclip maximizer, i could take action in pursuit of that goal. chess is a game of perfect information and when you move a bishop you know exactly what that means. text is what it is. buying a paperclip factory (for example) is "fuzzier"
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That doesn't answer my question, unless you're going for the ultimate cop-out answer of "I know it when I see it" or "it is impossible to tell if an entity is intelligent, regardless of its behavior or how many or what types of tests it passes"
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like if you take GPT or AlphaZero and hook it up to the world with some input and some output and tell it "maximize paperclips", what's going to happen? well what are your inputs and outputs is the first question. outputs, for the sake of example say you give it a twitter account (that you publicize the existence of). inputs, feed it paperclip sale data (from amazon or staples or whatever). i don't think this system ever takes off (in the sense of paperclipping the entire universe or whatever) because it's not "seeing" enough of the world. ok so you've got to feed it more input somehow. you give it the ability to follow other twitter accounts and to see what they are posting. i still don't think this system ever takes off for the same reason. even if it could "see" the whole world i still don't think it's getting there, because maximizing paperclips is not discrete in the way that chess is. but my focus is, how do you get it to see the world? is the answer here just "expose it to enough of the internet and it will figure it out"?Crunchums wrote: i mean a less strict meaning of "understanding" than you do. i'm talking about the level of understanding where if you ask me to be a paperclip maximizer, i could take action in pursuit of that goal. chess is a game of perfect information and when you move a bishop you know exactly what that means. text is what it is. buying a paperclip factory (for example) is "fuzzier"
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