t4ng0pwn3d (u/t4ng0pwn3d)

t4ng0pwn3d commented on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI twitter.com/ilyasut/statu... · Posted by u/wavelander

_nalply · a year ago

I think what's missing:

- A possibility to fact-check the text, for example by the Wolfram math engine or by giving internet access

- Something like an instinct to fight for life (seems dangerous)

- some more subsystems: let's have a look a the brain: there's the amygdala, the cerebellum, the hippocampus, and so on, and there must be some evolutionary need for these parts

t4ng0pwn3d · a year ago

AGI can’t be defined as autocomplete with fact checker and instinct to survive, there’s so so so much more hidden in that “subsystems point”. At least if we go by Bostroms definition…

t4ng0pwn3d commented on GPT-4o openai.com/index/hello-gp... · Posted by u/Lealen

Cyphase · a year ago

If you get away from roads you wouldn't realize engines exist. Also, the internet is (part of) the real world.

t4ng0pwn3d · a year ago

Sure and there’s endless AI generated blog spam from “journalists” saying LLMs are amazing and they’re going to replace our jobs etc… but get away from the tech bubble and you’ll see we’re so far away from that. Full self driving when? Autonomous house keepers when? Even self checkout still has to have human help most of the time and didn’t reduce jobs much. Call me a skeptic but HN is way too optimistic about this stuff.

Replacing all jobs except LLM developers? I’ll tell my hairdresser

t4ng0pwn3d commented on GPT-4o openai.com/index/hello-gp... · Posted by u/Lealen

ben_w · a year ago

Is it even possible to "get off the internet" without also leaving civilisation in general at this point?

> it'd have to be impacting the real world

By writing business plans? Getting lawyers punished because they didn't realise that "passes bar exam" isn't the same as "can be relied on for citations"? By defrauding people with synthesised conversations using stolen voices? By automating and personalising propaganda?

Or does it only count when it's guiding a robot that's not merely a tech demo?

t4ng0pwn3d · a year ago

I’ll be worried about jobs being removed entirely by LLMs when I see something outside of the tech bubble genuinely having been removed by one - has there been any real cases of this? It seems like hyperbole. Most people in the world don’t even know this exists. Comparing it to the internet is insane, based off of its status as a highly advanced auto complete.

t4ng0pwn3d commented on GPT-4o openai.com/index/hello-gp... · Posted by u/Lealen

jdietrich · a year ago

A Google search for practically any long-tail keywords will reveal that LLMs have already had a very significant impact. DuckDuckGo has suffered even more. Social media is absolutely lousy with AI-powered fraud of varying degrees of sophistication.

It's glib to dismiss safety concerns because we haven't all turned into paperclips yet. LLMs and image gen models are having real effects now.

We're already at a point where AI can generate text and images that will fool a lot of people a lot of the time. For every college-educated young person smugly pointing out that they aren't fooled by an image with six-fingered hands, there are far more people who had marginal media literacy to begin with and are now almost defenceless against a tidal wave of hyper-scaleable deception.

We're already at a point where we're counselling elders to ignore late-night messages from people claiming to be a relative in need of an urgent wire transfer. What defences do we have when an LLM will be able to have a completely fluent, natural-sounding conversation in someone else's voice? I'm not confident that I'd be able to distinguish GPT-4o from a human speaker in the best of circumstances and I'm almost certain that I could be fooled if I'm hurried, distracted, sleep deprived or otherwise impaired.

Regardless of any future impacts on the labour market or any hypothesised X-risks, I think we should be very worried about the immediate risks to trust and social cohesion. An awful lot of people are turning into paranoid weirdos at the moment and I don't particularly blame them, but I can see things getting seriously ugly if we can't abate that trend.

t4ng0pwn3d · a year ago

If you get off the internet you'd not even realise these tools exists though. And for the statement that all jobs will be modelled to be true, it'd have to be impacting the real world.

t4ng0pwn3d commented on Racket Language racket-lang.org/... · Posted by u/swatson741

czhu12 · a year ago

I also was at UBC for that class and left with a totally different impression. I thought it was awful and set up introductory students very poorly for subsequent CS classes, especially data structures and algorithms that were taught in imperative languages.

When I TAed, a lot of incoming 2nd year students didn’t know how to do for loops yet, which really set them back for basic algorithms.

I had a much deeper appreciation for functional languages after theory of computation classes in my senior / 4th year.

t4ng0pwn3d · a year ago

SICP doesn't teach assignment till chapter 3 if I recall correctly, and that was used for years at MIT. I don't think it set CS back there, so maybe it was more a teaching issue?

t4ng0pwn3d commented on Racket Language racket-lang.org/... · Posted by u/swatson741

darby_eight · a year ago

Ok, so to state the obvious, if you don't turn to racket for "programming language research" why do you use the language at all?

t4ng0pwn3d · a year ago

A lisp with a lot of features built in (websites, guis, etc)

t4ng0pwn3d commented on USAF Test Pilot School, DARPA announce aerospace machine learning breakthrough edwards.af.mil/News/Artic... · Posted by u/rntn

t4ng0pwn3d · a year ago

Awesome! There isn't any real air-to-air combat nowadays though, so I wonder how they test the results?

Looks like the contractor behind the AI pilot software is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_AI

t4ng0pwn3d commented on Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app theregister.com/2024/04/1... · Posted by u/LorenDB

t4ng0pwn3d · a year ago

The reviews on the app are wild - people talking about loving getting paid a couple bucks for watching it all day, and that it's their new side gig. It's pretty sad, to be honest. Get outside and live life! (Or stay inside and live life, but we need to get away from this dopamine high of doom scrolling)

t4ng0pwn3d commented on Tesla pushes for $56B pay deal for Elon Musk bbc.com/news/articles/cqq... · Posted by u/andsoitis

t4ng0pwn3d · a year ago

Cuts 10% of staff and immediately starts pushing for a $56bn pay package