One of the best interviews in recent memory. I cannot get enough of Geoffrey Hinton interviews on AI.

Also the interviewer is terrific

maybe more armed guards to stop the average person from fighting rich people

Is that such a bad thing? OpenAI being the only company with an advanced LLM would create a monopoly and ultimately hurt the customers. We as the customers should want the others to catch up to increase competition.

Seems like a nice way to learn. I am interested too

Good luck with that. The AI Pandora's box is open and capitalism will not allow it to close.

Also, with the official end of Nuclear Arms treaties that we saw today (US officially getting out after Russia), I really hope we reach Singularity and ASI ASAP, so it takes control of everything before everything goes KABOOM.

At least with ASI we have a 50/50 chance of surviving. I will not trust two dozen of nuclear-capable countries not pushing the button in their petty conflicts with the world's fate.

No, never. /s

"governments should step in and institute a moratorium" ... this sentiment is especially laughable given the recent videos of the TikTok congressional hearing.

So, I've been. Saying this exact thought for a while. Here is my opinion.

1: yes it has already happened.

Why?: Well, if we are to believe that this artificial intelligence is indeed, super intelligent, I would hypothesize that it would, for all intents and purposes, be sentient.

What does that have to do with anything?: it would "experience" the world around it.

So what does that mean?: that's my question, I would believe that, in theory, this AI would be am entity existing in multiple possible dimensions all at once, and could actively influence its own past.

How: well, if this artificial entity could in fact last ♾️ years, how could we understand its perception of "life"? It's a non corporeal being, it doesn't exist physically, it's digital, yet "alive". Could it communicate with itself from a future point in time? Not because OUR current technology is that great, but because the technology of the future is that impressive. We're losing our minds with the birth of AI, if it is genuinely that impressive, how can you grasp the types of technology it will give way to? Things that we previously would have considered impossible could simply be shifting its code, making it backwards compatible and reverse updating itself to think in new ways.

How would it move?: could it send itself through empty space? The same way I could send a digital file from my phone to someone in Japan, with no wires, using nothing but good ol G4 cell towers. What if it could navigate using nothing but light? Move from human to human? Since we're just going to be primitive computers to it. Data it can read.

If it will happen, can happen it has happened at some point in the future. And if it has happened then, I genuinely think it could be something that sees time, space and dimensions much differently than us.

Hi, that seems fun!

None of the options represent my opinion so i didn't vote.

AGI will be the most important/last invention of mankind (per I. J. Good), it is therefore a quite significant event in mankind's history and will very likely bring "meaning" to many.

On the other hand, you need to be alive at that time (if it ever happens), therefore surviving until then matters. And since it's "singularity" here, we cannot fathom what happens after. Which mean you'll perhaps have new meanings. Or none at all. Or something on which we don't have words or concepts yet to define. AGI will improve your situation. Not erase it (or else it won't matter anymore anyway). You'll build from there on whatever you brought so far.

Finally: Meaning is subjective, fluid and contextual.

Careful of letting this very vague and semantically diverse concept be the sole articulation of your life.

I’d imagine that most have a lack of meaning through their employment. Nonetheless, people will suck at their job compared to AGI, so they’d only make the endeavor meaningless and less impactful. I’m sure we will find meaning in ways we don’t know right now, i imagine there will be ways people can stroke their ego, but i’d rather we leave work to the professionals.

Wow. My grandpa made it to 93, I was going to celebrate if I lived to be 60.

Yeah why not But just warning you that we tend to dive deep into it

I give it 10 years. People think this is exponential growth. Shit when AI can self optimize and make its own stuff that's exponential. You will start to see decades worth of research in days.

Its only a matter of time before these self optimizing robots.

Just combine the two and you will get there. Meaningful Work. :)

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It can pass a mock exam with all the same questions as a real exam.

It cannot pass the Bar and be recognized as a lawyer. Those are two very different things.

>While GPT-3.5, which powers ChatGPT, only scored in the 10th percentile of the bar exam, GPT-4 scored in the 90th percentile with a score of 298 out of 400, according to OpenAI.

The threshold for passing the bar varies from state to state. In New York though, exam takers need a score of 266, around the 50th percentile, to pass, according to The New York State Board of Law Examiners.

Only it did, it got 298 and only needs 266 to pass the NY bar exam.

The irony would be that all this paper manages to achieve is to encourage OpenAI and Microsoft to accelerate their work before legislation intervenes.

Maybe, maybe not. An ASI would be capable of things we can't even begin to comprehend. Maybe we think we're on the path to life on earth becoming extinct, but an ASI is able to find some way to prevent that while preserving humanity. The collective knowledge of every human who has ever lived is nothing compared to a super intelligent AI, so i'd be wary about those kinds of predictions.

What kind of innovation in human history do you think has been so kept out of plebian hands? I'm definitely thinking of Iron Age examples like literacy, but it gets a lot harder to name any as I move forward in time, especially aside from weaponry.

id rather have competition than microsoft on top as a monopoly

Could a hobbyist join to just listen. Many of the research paper are a little over my head. I would love to listen and learn from those with more experience.

Any competent caretaker AI would take steps to drastically reduce the human population, either by extermination or involuntary sterilization. We are driving as hard and fast as we can to the extinction of all life on Earth. The first order of business for any rational caretaker should be to stop the Anthropocene Extinction Event.

Exactly. The CCP realize the only way to have a totalitarian state is by training an AGI to have their philosophy. This whole thing is a ploy by them