>I believe that the optimal thing to do ... is to let the machines loose, see what happens, and then begin the journey to where they have stopped. Things are currently moving fast. They cannot move fast forever. But if we get on board now then they will take us to extraordinary new places. And after we have arrived, the new adventure will begin.
I'm relieved that this time around, they have provided partial reasoning traces and prompts for a small number of problems. Do they now also share data with the other model providers..
It's beautiful, but the animals are not thinking this about us.
They structurally cannot understand what we are doing at the place where we hit our ceiling. Only with our highest technology (well beyond their understanding) do we have the tools to go back for them, and try to bring them along and interface better with us (re: recent work in animal communication)
Not to derail, but the optimist in me thinks if we suddenly gained the ability to converse with livestock, we'd stop eating so much of them since they could tell us how much they suffered.
The cynic in me says it wouldn't change a thing as plenty of people know the horrors factory farmed animals face and still continue to consume them anyways.
Hopefully GPT 8 will treat as a bit better than we treat the cows.
Worth noting that this is an invisibly small part of the sum total of our global efforts, especially versus the much more tangible effort we put into enslaving and slaughtering them, then mangling their carcasses for our own uses as we drive more and more of them to extinction.
We simply don't care about anything beyond ourselves and even there it breaks down on closer analysis when we see how many within our species don't truly value the collective whole beyond themselves.
This makes it sound like OpenAI and other closed source ai companies are an inevitability.
There is nothing here today that is unpredictable or impossible to control.
It is everyone's choice to let the greed continue, to let unelected sociopaths capture and feed society to the model.
It is not acceptable to put others at risk. It can stop and it can be done the right way instead.
That is, inform the industry that those causing these risks will be prosecuted regardless of their messiah complex.
The US government must not under any circumstances allow the ai industry to form a cartel.
We can make some effort to encourage open source models and thus stop the companies from causing hysteria by hiding the model, shrouding it it mysticism and prophesying the end times. China is doing a great service to everyone by making llms available to the public.
>I believe that the optimal thing to do ... is to let the machines loose, see what happens, and then begin the journey to where they have stopped. Things are currently moving fast. They cannot move fast forever. But if we get on board now then they will take us to extraordinary new places. And after we have arrived, the new adventure will begin.
I'm relieved that this time around, they have provided partial reasoning traces and prompts for a small number of problems. Do they now also share data with the other model providers..
It's beautiful, but the animals are not thinking this about us.
They structurally cannot understand what we are doing at the place where we hit our ceiling. Only with our highest technology (well beyond their understanding) do we have the tools to go back for them, and try to bring them along and interface better with us (re: recent work in animal communication)
Not to derail, but the optimist in me thinks if we suddenly gained the ability to converse with livestock, we'd stop eating so much of them since they could tell us how much they suffered.
The cynic in me says it wouldn't change a thing as plenty of people know the horrors factory farmed animals face and still continue to consume them anyways.
Hopefully GPT 8 will treat as a bit better than we treat the cows.
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> recent work in animal communication
Worth noting that this is an invisibly small part of the sum total of our global efforts, especially versus the much more tangible effort we put into enslaving and slaughtering them, then mangling their carcasses for our own uses as we drive more and more of them to extinction.
We simply don't care about anything beyond ourselves and even there it breaks down on closer analysis when we see how many within our species don't truly value the collective whole beyond themselves.
It's just atoms all the way down.
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> Things are currently moving fast. They cannot move fast forever.
This is a supposition that I fear will soon be proven false.
It's a supposition that can only be proved true soon. To prove it false would take literally forever.
This makes it sound like OpenAI and other closed source ai companies are an inevitability.
There is nothing here today that is unpredictable or impossible to control.
It is everyone's choice to let the greed continue, to let unelected sociopaths capture and feed society to the model.
It is not acceptable to put others at risk. It can stop and it can be done the right way instead.
That is, inform the industry that those causing these risks will be prosecuted regardless of their messiah complex.
The US government must not under any circumstances allow the ai industry to form a cartel.
We can make some effort to encourage open source models and thus stop the companies from causing hysteria by hiding the model, shrouding it it mysticism and prophesying the end times. China is doing a great service to everyone by making llms available to the public.