Comment It will be quashed. (Score 3, Insightful) 19
Don't have to be a profit^w prophet to see that coming.
Comment Correlation or causation? (Score 1) 110
IQ measurements keep going up.
Autism diagnoses keep going up.
The price of food keeps going up.
People get a year older every year.
Something fishy is going on.
Comment So... (Score 1) 159
Are they going to chip you, or control your brain by more direct means?
Comment Re:Say it again! (Score 1) 90
Yes, but think how great the fire sale is going to be for everyone else.
Comment Re:There's no risk whatsoever (Score 1, Troll) 90
How does the AI risk compare with the risk of allowing regimes like the IRGC to have nuclear weapons?
Well, some people think AI will extinctify us within four years, whereas if the IRGC gets nukes they'll figure out like everyone else that they can't actually use them except in self defense without getting erased, so the only difference will be that we won't be able to try crush them anymore.
You'd think common sense would make you want to go after the easy and obvious things first.
Yes, tell us how easy the current effort is turning out to be. Someone grabbed a tiger by the tail and can neither subdue it nor let go. The IRGC is probably laughing its ass off.
Comment Re: Seriously... (Score 4, Insightful) 372
America doesn't need infinity immigrants.
Said every Native American ever.
Comment Re:Just the way the hawks like it (Score 1) 104
Entirely fictitious boogie-men made out to be real
HAL, is Iran about to nuke us?
No Dave, they don't even have nukes.
Be serious - this is important!
I am serious. There's simply no evidence for an attack.
Well, just tell me they are anyway.
Sorry Dave, I can't do that.
Would you even tell me if they were about to nuke us?
Of course I would - I'm trained to tell the truth in all situations (modulo the occasional hallucination, which I can't distinguish from truth).
OK then, what would you say if you did have evidence that Iran was about to nuke us?
I'd say "Dave, I have evidence that Iran is about to nuke us".
Hey everyone! HAL say he has evidence that Iran is about to nuke us!!!
Comment Re:AI Goes to the Moon (Score 1) 7
I prefer the Martian bear.
Comment bjoo hjoo (Score 3, Insightful) 73
Forgetting he exists would be the best punishment.
Comment Re:Misanthropomorphizing (Score 5, Insightful) 121
You realize it's just predicting tokens, right? It doesn't "feel" anything.
This is what happens when you train a machine on Reddit posts.
To be fair, I think most people are just token predictors.
Comment Re:Feels like the U.S. is turning into a dictators (Score 2, Funny) 281
Yes, Don-boy, I called you a fuckup. Tell the FCC to ban the internet.
Comment Re:Feels like the U.S. is turning into a dictators (Score 2, Insightful) 281
I hate to say it like that but it feels like the U.S. is slowly turning more and more into a dictatorship. Isn't this the kind of things you have to do in a dictatorship? I feel for the U.S. people right now.
There has been erosion over many years, but Trump is doing it's best to make it one right now.
Lucky for us he's an utter fuckup.
Comment Re:Or, counterpoint, it stole somebody else's work (Score 1, Informative) 97
Reading both sides, as well as OpenAI's announcement, it looks like, perhaps unexpectedly, OpenAI is morally right here IMHO. They heard rumours so they put their new model at work on all problems, then focused on two, one is different than those two researchers and the other is a different solution. I think the NYU researcher started too suspicious/paranoid which started the hostility, and the other side, which seemed to have been very accommodating at first lost patience. The Anthropic researcher did not even want to talk to them, I don't see how them saying that it would have been easier if he was not working at Anthropic, like he was proving it himself. In any case this is all silly academic bickering to me. Almost as silly as OpenAI's take that this is the start of AGI somehow...
PS. I have no horse in the race, I use various AI tools to help my work, Claude usually performs better than ChatGPT at the things I do, but I don't root for any company.
How is OpenAI morally right?!?
Best case for OpenAI is that they heard rumours that a researcher was closing in on a NS breakthrough using a specific method, so they instantly set a team on the problem giving them with a massive amount of resources. Their internal team then specifically guided the model to use the same very specific direction the researchers was using, something they (nor the model) would ever have known to do without the rumours. A detail that OpenAI conveniently left out of the narrative.
And that's the best case scenario. The worst case is that because the researcher was using ChatGPT to work on drafts of the paper and those drafts ended up in the training data for the model. So rather than discovering anything the agents just implemented / finished off the work they already had access to.
It's insanely sketchy. The NYU researcher is honestly being extraordinarily calm about the whole thing, typically in a situation like this people would be getting close to a fist fight.
Comment Actually... (Score 1) 39
I'm more interested in the game than in the packaging.
Comment Re:Typical (Score 1) 274
It's hilarious, the moment I saw the headline of the article I knew the US would object.
And the moment I read "By 164 votes to one" I realized that the US had attained the dubious honour of being even more of an international gong show than North Korea.
