Among other experts, the Guardian article also includes commentary from @garymarcus.bsky.social, whose recent blog - Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion - is well worth a read too.
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Very nice talk by @garymarcus.bsky.social at the University of Edinburgh this morning
Truth, c/o @garymarcus.bsky.social
Excellent reminder from @garymarcus.bsky.social of all the arguments about why chatbots(a far better term than the misleading āAIā) are not conscious, using Dawkinsā daft infatuation as the starting point.
Thank you again @garymarcus.bsky.social, this time for putting in words the disappointment I felt after reading how easily Richard Dawkins was deluded by a language model.
garymarcus.substack.com/p/richard-da...
āThe fundamental problem here is that #Dawkins doesnāt reflect on how these outputs have been generated. Claudeās outputs are the product of a form of #mimicry, rather than as a report of genuine #internalstates.ā open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Crux of Musk-OpenAI trial so far is that Brockman keeps acting as if selling chatbots & API access for profit (which is what they do now) is exactly the same as the original mission (working on the AI safety problem for public benefit).
They arenāt.
If the jury figures that out, OpenAI loses.
What is the one thing that most worries you about AI?
In a survey of 3,700 AI researchers, only 3% replied existential riskādespite the prominence given to these risks in media. Far more experts are worried aout malicious use, misinformation, job losses, bias, etc.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
āthere are already signs of harm, such as AI eroding education, enabling cybercrime & feeding into pplās delusions.
āThe companies are raking in funding, & letting society pick up the pieces,ā says @garymarcus.bsky.social . Many researchers argue for focusing on these current threats andā
A deranged shooter racing through a hotel to shoot the President is a real wake-up call ā¦ on the need for gĢµuĢµnĢµ ĢµcĢµoĢµnĢµtĢµrĢµoĢµlĢµ a gigantic ballroom.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...