Nick Barrow
151 posts
@thatssonick
Research Associate @TUHHEthics | Otherwise, thinking about the moral value of consciousness | @UCL_ICN | @ImagesofAI | #firstgen
59% of orgs feel they aren't engaged in the broader AI debate Without sector engagement, initiatives aimed at developing AI for public good cannot have an adequate understanding of what that might entail 📑 Find out more from @yasminibison and @WeandAI: jrf.org.uk/ai-for-public-….
🌐 New JRF and @WeandAI research shows 78% of non-profit and grassroots orgs use generative AI tools in some capacity 71% do so to work more efficiently But these orgs haven't been adequately represented in discussions/decisions on design, use and governance of AI technologies
Wrote a commentary for AI and Ethics (as part of our collection on the ethics of AI Hype) on how Anthropomorphisation is both symptomatic and conducive to AI Hype. But anthropomorphism seems unavoidable...so what (if anything) should we do about it? philpapers.org/rec/BARAAA-26
Why are Metaculus markets now putting a 25% chance on AGI in the next 1.5 years? Shit like this: “Hey GPT4-V, this is what’s in front of me. Let’s step by step find the nearest supermarket using only logical reasoning.” Yes, that’s right - GPT4 was able to figure out how to direct a guy, step by step, to the nearest supermarket just by looking at a photo of a street, then using logical reasoning - piecing together clues from the tiny details in the roads, the signs, the cars. “This is the end of the road, should I go left or right?” This is why Geoffrey Hinton said in the next 5 years they may be better at reasoning than us, we will be the second smartest species on earth, and “they might take over.” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks we're 2-3 years away from ~AGI. This is very roughly the same ballpark as OpenAI. GoogleDeepMind's Chief AGI Scientist thinks 30% chance in 3 years. We don’t have much time left. If you’re still a stochastic parrot person at this point, what say ye about this example?
