Humans Need Not Apply was a YouTube video by CGP Gray published in 2014. It talks about how technological advancements, especially making computers smarter and more able to think and make decisions, will increasingly make humans unnecessary. It was made in time where AI research was still in its …
A fascinating summary of recent AI research: AI Sleeper Agents A sleeper agent is an AI that acts innocuous until it gets some trigger, then goes rogue. … So there’s been a dispute in the AI safety community - if for some reason you start with an AI sleeper agent, and you train it on normal …
I feel like that as much hype as AI has gotten, rightfully so, the people advocating for caution and restraint, such as the Effective Altruism movement, have not been very popular. Part of that is just being in the unenviable and intrinsically unpopular position of a naysayer, but I think a large …
As much hype and attention that the machine learning / artificial intelligence field gets, and in spite of some impressive results that have come out of it in the form of e.g. ChatGPT, overall we have very little understanding in exactly how do these models work. We can train them, and we can use …
A fascinating deep-dive from New York Magazine and The Verge into how AI models – including ChatGPT, Bard, and other LLMs (Large Language Models) – are trained, and the industry that provides the data, control, and feedback: Inside the AI factory […] ChatGPT seems so human …
StillDrinking has a lot of great essays. He has a way with words that makes reading his articles both entertaining and illuminating at the same time – a powerful combination. Anyway, their essay on AI and ChatGPT, and how the world we have built will continue manages to be human-hostile in …