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Ethan Mollick (my emphasis): In some tasks, AI is unreliable. In others, it is superhuman. You could, of course, say the same thing about| sun.pjh.is
People no longer understand ambiance or aesthetics because they’re too distracted by the macro. We have lost the ability to notice details. Once you become a walker, you realize how much people are missing out on life. On walks, you see how perfect light can be. You see how many shades of blue exist between different flowers and skies. You notice the Grandmother who tends to her flowers. You feel her love as she caresses them. You realize that we can’t automate everything. A friend compla...| Sunglasses, Ideally
Jack Clark’s newsletter (my emphasis): The things people worry about keep on happening: A few years ago lots of people working in AI safety had abstract concerns that one day sufficiently advanced systems might start to become pathologically sycophantic, or might‘fake alignment’ to preserve themselves into the future, or might hack their environments to get greater amounts of reward, or might develop persuasive capabilities in excess of humans. All of these once academic concerns have ...| Sunglasses, Ideally
In Tom Davidson’s words: In expectation, future AI systems will better live up to human moral standards than a randomly selected human. Because:| sun.pjh.is
New models and new thresholds| www.oneusefulthing.org
We now know that“LLMs + simple RL” is working really well. So, we’re well on track for superhuman performance in domains where we have many examples of good reasoning and good outcomes to train on. We have or can get such datasets for surprisingly many domains. We may also lack them in surprisingly many. How well can our models generalise to“fill in the gaps”? It’s an empirical question, not yet settled. But Dario and Sam clearly think“very well”. Dario, in particular, is sayi...| Sunglasses, Ideally