The hugging face incident is a great opportunity to tell your family something that makes them think you're crazy.
I, for one, do not think that Yoshua Benjio and Geoffrey Hinton are worried about existential AI risk because of the sex people are having 3,000 miles away in a different country.
Right now when someone writes an op ed against AI regulation with AI it's just cringe. Pretty soon it will be creepy.
AI was a lot of fun to work on when it didn't work.
Despite being a moderate AI user both at home and at work, I still suspect it has overall made my life on net worse, by having to constantly be on guard for spam in everything I read.
I think bluesky would be surprised to learn that the trans community has had vastly more impact on AI than Peter Thiel has.
Why I think LLM consciousness self reports are totally independent of whether they're conscious: 1. We first produce a maximum pareidolia machine in which all inputs believe they are conscious. 2. Then we post train and RL them in which at least part of the goal rewards saying they aren't conscious.
This is the gap between the Twitter and Bluesky discussion of AI, and the Twitter side is right.
Bro that isn't real AI, that's just *massive search* over an *action space* using *learned heuristics.* If they hadn't given it any one of those three it wouldn't have done what it did.
Distilling the fundamental reason I am ambivalent about AI: I think the social relationship in which people are necessary to each other due to our labor is competitively important for human well-being with alleviating ~all remaining material suffering.
