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Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Suresh Venkatasubramanian
“It's really impressive that an AI system has provided a proof for it. For more on the significance of the result and some interpretation of the proof technique, check out the companion article. cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085... 10/n,n=10” evidence ↗
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Ben Recht Suresh Venkatasubramanian Grace James Grimmelmann Benjamin Riley
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Colin: I hate that today’s most prominent AI skeptics keep forcing me to argue against them. I yearn to join them in the fight against the booster zealots, wherein there is still plenty of room for legiti…
Colin: The questions available to a skeptic today are kind of esoteric, like “how much should we as a society be willing to pay for theorems”
Ben Recht: The way forward is through the mushy middle. This technology is amazing. It works and breaks in surprising ways. The main boosters are lunatics. And the loudest critics are detached from reality. F…
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3 experts · 21 posts · 16d ago
Hagen Blix Benjamin Riley Anthony Moser
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Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
Hagen Blix: .. something that we construct in each other. Much of it is about mutual legibility. Now, for the first time, we have machines that go off the deep end with you, that create a sense of legibility t…
Hagen Blix: Also, good liberal individualists that we are, we're gonna start by treating AI psychoses as an individual moral failure, which will be as perfect a mismatch for the situation as can be
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2 experts · 4 posts · 3d ago
Benjamin Riley René Walter
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“Obviously a generative biography is useful to show shortcomings of AI precisely because you know who you are. AI literacy is not a prompting class, it's about showing the process, and that's a good…” evidence ↗
Benjamin Riley: While getting my hair cut, my stylist — also in grad school — tells me she had a guest professor who told her class they need “AI literacy,” which apparently meant having Chat write biographies for…
René Walter: Obviously a generative biography is useful to show shortcomings of AI precisely because you know who you are. AI literacy is not a prompting class, it's about showing the process, and that's a good…
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