Post AYCSs1zMC17CCiCMYC by demiurg@fosstodon.org
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 (DIR) Post #AYCGTKWQwwpqzl7oEy by clive@saturation.social
       2023-07-29T19:54:22Z
       
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       Excellent @emilymbender essay outlining the difference between thinkers who are studying real, present dangers of AI -- like how it's being used to make horrid, GIGO-fueled decisions about people's lives ...... and the realm of tech folks who ignore that and instead focus on fuzzily-defined, gauzily sci-fi prospects of AI taking over the world, using everything from Bell-Curve-era definitions of IQ to longtermist calculations (i.e. "pulling numbers out of their asses")https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f
       
 (DIR) Post #AYCSs1zMC17CCiCMYC by demiurg@fosstodon.org
       2023-07-29T22:13:17Z
       
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       @clive @emilymbender  I think a topic that gets also not enough attention is the use of ML in the military industry. It is already used for autonomous weapon systems. It helps drones fly and object detection is used for automatic aiming, to name only some. These are also real and pressing issues which literally fly under the radar.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYCW2gZkRiUuqAzZwm by jetjocko@mastodon.social
       2023-07-29T22:48:51Z
       
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       @clive I’m starting to wonder if this is a consequence in part of so few  of the technical papers on LLMs getting peer reviewed? Like Reviewer #2 would definitely make this point.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYCX7w0UbG2O6OZIw4 by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
       2023-07-29T23:01:01Z
       
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       @clive it’s like the whale oil lamp manufacturers society being worried that there might be a genie inside the bottles and planning for that instead of the extinction of the whales
       
 (DIR) Post #AYCXq5OZ3WZPxdsfwm by clive@saturation.social
       2023-07-29T23:09:05Z
       
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       @carlmjohnson Oof, yeah
       
 (DIR) Post #AYCXyBJyuHBSenb6Uy by clive@saturation.social
       2023-07-29T23:10:06Z
       
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       @jetjocko good question! I’d be interesting to figure out precisely how many papers on the existential risks of AI have ever been peer reviewed
       
 (DIR) Post #AYF5cjvRM0oaMnzApM by jetjocko@mastodon.social
       2023-07-31T04:36:42Z
       
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       @clive or  even if the technical papers that mention risk have.