we absolutely need to separate people who LARP AI safety and people who sincerely care about AI safety. there are absolutely a ton of people who doom talk AI as a way to hype it, or as a way to regulatory capture to secure their position. what they do is in some sense poisoning the well cause now when people who really care about AI safety talk about existential risks, they get lumped together with the disingenuous LARPers and dismissed.

listen to what they advocate. do they really want to stop all AI development, or just a so-called “slow-down”? do they want to ban all AI models, or just the “open-source”/“Chinese” ones?

There is no need to downplay her credentials like that. She is an AI researcher, she has a M.S. in EE and a PhD in computer vision, and her PhD advisor is Fei-Fei Li!

Focusing on human responsibility for using a tool sounds like a good way to proceed in my opinion.

Absolutely! If AI hurts humans then the AI company CEOs should be put in jail (in fact I believe they should be in jail right now for developing AI at all).

When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?

Right, when a bridge collapses, we analysis the physics of it so the next bridge we build won’t collapse. From my perspective analysis why an AI “went rogue” is the same process. The difficulty is when talking about AI we can’t help but use some anthropomorphizing languages. If anything, talking about when an AI “thought” is a lot less verbose than talking about how the transformer’s weights multiplies together and how the random sampling process produced a sequence of tokens that resembles natural language. But ultimately, it’s not that far from analyzing a bridge collapse. We need to understand why an AI “went rogue” to stop the next AI from going rogue (or, in my opinion, just stop building the next AI altogether).

This machine-god narrative is, in my opinion, meant to distract us from these.

I don’t see why personally. AI is dangerous enough even if it doesn’t become “machine-god”. Absolutely we shouldn’t use AI to develop autonomous weapons. If AI can indeed somehow become “machine-god”, then oh my god that’s a million times worse and we should stop immediately.

(I want to preface by saying I don’t support AI, I don’t want to hype AI, I want AI research and development to stop immediately.)

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

Huh? Pretty sure autonomous weapons are part of the fears of extinction. It’s very hard to imagine an AI safety advocate doing “all the doom talk” would in any way support AI autonomous weapons. She and other AI safety researchers are on the same side! They don’t need to and shouldn’t fight each other.

Timnit Gebru: Why are they choosing certain disciplines? Somehow these subjects, like programming and chess and math, were elevated to mean, OK, you solved this and thereby you’ve solved intelligence.

Well that’s simple. Because the output of chess, programming, and math can be easily checked mechanically. Chess has win or loss, programs either pass tests or not, math proofs can be checked with Lean, etc. This makes these discipline very easy to train an AI on with reinforcement learning.

I thought an AI researcher would know this?

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What if I don’t? What are you gonna do about it

She gives AfD voters a shield to do bigoted things, because well their lead is a lesbian so how can they be bigoted? /s

It also improves the optics of the party and makes it look “normal” so people who aren’t that far right doesn’t feel they are doing something bad for supporting AfD.

I think I am missing something that makes me catgirl 😞

This is Not what breakfast in bed means

i mean i didn’t do a very good job explaining what i meant by that either. could be i just assumed this is something everyone knows (i work in tech, so this is something i am too familiar with. it is very normal someone who doesn’t might not know this).

Laughed a little bit too hard I see

Sure but combinatorially that’s very small… 1400 a-z characters will have numbers of combinations exceed that number.

10^2000 isn’t even that big though? That’s maybe 1500 English words or so.

Can someone assure me democracy is actually good? All I see is people constantly being against things are clearly good for them…

Vive poutine? I mean it is delicious but I don’t know if I’d go that far?

Yeah, no. Not allowed, straight to jail.

SafetyNet can be bypassed

What did this guy do in particular to deserve the trophy?