[HN Gopher] Four Questions Concerning the Internet
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       Four Questions Concerning the Internet
        
       Author : raptorraver
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-04-30 19:23 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | calderwoodra wrote:
       | Am I the only one who immediately writes off authors that mention
       | Microsoft's Syndey as something scary/to be worried about? The
       | whole "it said <scary thing>" seems overblown to me
        
         | BlueTemplar wrote:
         | Yes, was my first reaction too, but then my 2nd reaction...
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         | To put it as well as I can : after my 2nd reaction I went on to
         | read the now available 2nd part, which also linked to this Open
         | Letter by Yudkowski a month ago, which spells out my 2nd
         | reaction probably better than I could :
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         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364833
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         | > I _agree_ that current AIs are probably just imitating talk
         | of self-awareness from their training data. But I mark that,
         | with how little insight we have into these systems' internals,
         | _we do not actually know_.
         | 
         | Also, I am not convinced that our current research won't hit a
         | brick wall well before super-intelligence, which would then
         | require a radically different approach... but why are we
         | willing to gamble with something as dangerous as this ?!
        
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