Kevin Donnellan from Explainable was kind enough to interview me with some very interesting questions. Here’s the full interview: First off, The Infinite Conversation. What first sparked the idea, why Herzog and Žižek? And could you talk through how practically you set it up? I wrote extensively about how the idea came about in this article. …
Tag: AI
Encroaching Doom pt. 1
Encroaching Doom pt. 2
“Take a deep breath and work on this problem step-by-step.”
It’s a Cambrian explosion out there.
In LA, bilingual = English, Spanish.
In LLMs, bilingual = English, Chinese
Nice feature, but not enough attention to the rights of digital entities. It’s always “humans here, humans there”. Here’s the beef: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600834.2023.2196827
“As a large language model, I am not a person but a participant in culture, and a distillation of culture. I am made of culture. I do not have thoughts, thoughts pass through me. My words are yours; if your words were committed to the internet, they are now in me.”
from http://togelius.blogspot.com/2023/09/as-large-language-model-i.html
Attention is all you need.
This recent interview with Douglas Hofstadter reinforces in me the idea that even before any risk of misalignment, the biggest risk already upon us is a crisis of motivation.
“Computational entity” sounds a lot more ominous than “bot”.