Is there a support group for people who have a more cynical view of LLMs than all of their coworkers? Asking for a friend.
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Katherine Bailey
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Katherine Bailey
@katherinebailey
SW Eng @Shopify. I no longer work in AI because I'm so over it. Diver, amateur classical musician, lover of languages.
Toronto, Canada Katılım Eylül 2008
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My optimistic take on where we’re at right now: this is the pre-dawn of the post-bullshit age.
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@togelius @sina_lana @mitpress If you haven’t read Frans de Waal’s Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are, that would be a good place to start.
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@sina_lana @mitpress Excellent point. I was actually considering picking your brain on this; I've read some ethology but it was some time ago. I've started writing a (short) discussion about animal intelligence, but I realize I need to read more, so would be very happy for pointers.
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I'm excited to report that I'm writing a short book on Artificial General Intelligence to be published by @mitpress. It will go into their Essential Knowledge Series so I will write for a general audience. This is your chance to influence me: which topics must I include?
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@davidchalmers42 What would motivate a pure thinker to think anything at all?
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bonus homework question/tongue-twister (and the philosophical question i'm ultimately interested in):
what sort of thing could a pure thinker think, if a pure thinker could think things?
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thanks for all the names for conscious thinkers without senses! background: i'm talking at the APA in two weeks on "can large language models think?". one issue: do AI systems need sensory grounding to think? i need a name for the key case! egghead? floater? pure thinker?
David Chalmers@davidchalmers42
behavior(+) without consciousness: philosophical zombie consciousness without affect: philosophical vulcan conscious thought without senses: philosophical ...?
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Katherine Bailey retweetledi
It just occurred to me that there's been a big plot twist:
2016:
Huggingface - we're going to make a chatbot
OpenAI - we're going to do open AI
2022:
Huggingface - we're making AI open
OpenAI - we made a chatbot
... 😅
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so, what's the best reason to think large language models are not sentient? more precisely: what's the best candidate for X such that LLMs clearly lack X and X is required for sentience?
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Given that most AI researchers don’t even try to present a philosophically sound definition of intelligence, this is a laughably far-fetched claim.
Richard Sutton@RichardSSutton
The case for ambition in artificial intelligence research: Within your lifetime, AI researchers will understand the principles of intelligence—what it is and how it works—well enough to create beings of far greater intelligence than current humans.
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Shockingly flawed reasoning about the relationship between evolutionary constraints and intelligence (it is literally the opposite of what’s expressed here). The field of AI is becoming more of a joke every day.
Dileep George@dileeplearning
@togelius A system that can learn, generalize, and reason like humans by building models of the world. It will be more general and more powerful than humans because arbitrary evolutionary constraints are removed, but still limited because it’s not some mythical “universal intelligence”.
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@togelius AGI is an incoherent idea based on the common fallacy that intelligence is an engineering problem rather than the result of selection pressures in specific evolutionary environments, the reproduction of which is the only thing that can produce the corresponding intelligence.
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Without looking at the other responses to this tweet, what is your own definition of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? 280 characters or less.
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“There are typically around 1,000 pieces of sound in a cumulonimbus cloud.” GPT3 wisdom at its finest. economist.com/by-invitation/…
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@michalwols Oh wow, thankfully I haven’t had any of those yet! Just the odd person in an email claiming to have left me a voicemail when they don’t even have my number
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@katherinebailey It used to be just emails and linkedin, but now I'm getting random phone calls too...
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I get tons of these too and I’m just a Staff Software Developer. They sure are desperate to sell all those ML solutions.
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@webchick @rtanglao @stevekrueger Let’s lock in Thurs afternoon anyway! For me that will be the least hectic time since I won’t be rushing back for more meetings 🙂
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Just booked a flight to Vancouver for a team get together next month - it'll be my first time back in 8 years! Might have to make a quick trip out to Bowen Island - of all the places we've lived, nothing has really come close to that paradise.
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@webchick @rtanglao @stevekrueger Are you kidding?! Angie, I would absolutely love to see you and catch up - let’s make sure it happens!
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@rtanglao @katherinebailey @stevekrueger Gasp! Can I tag along? :P (totally fine if not btw. I miss you all!)
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@stevekrueger Yep, Ryan shared that in our team channel, that’s awesome 😄
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@katherinebailey What are your dates? would be great to see you.
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