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by mdp202110 hours ago |
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upvoteby pixl975 hours ago|
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Even a stopped clock is right two times a day, LeCun can't even do that.

>the danger is not intrinsic to the technology

This is why you can't take anything he says any longer at face value. He failed to predict what LLMs can do and now takes the contrary position even when it flies in the face of evidence.

AI safety was a thing before AI even existed. Why, because the outcomes are easily predictable. Give an agent intelligence and bad things can happen in unpredictable manners. Give it even more intelligence and the bad things that can happen only grow worse. This is not some huge new insight. We realized this like, what 70 years ago now?

Now, when we have AI starting to tickle AGI and we're trying to overthrow 70 god damned years of reason and logic on the topic? What the hell.

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upvoteby mdp20211 hours ago|
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> Give an agent intelligence and bad things can happen in unpredictable manners

You must mean the opposite, or something quite different from what you wrote.

Give something intelligence and you will have made a remarkable miracle and you will be thanked forever as the Great Benefactor.

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upvoteby pixl971 hours ago|
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Eh, no. I meant exactly what I said.
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upvoteby mdp20211 hours ago|
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In our concepts "giving intelligence" and "creating a liability" are directly opposite. You must be attaching an odd idea to 'intelligence'.
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upvoteby figassis7 hours ago|
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Every danger related to technology is about the use of that technology,aka Humans. Technology is mostly inert. Again, what is he saying? Is he saying that because humans fallible, not the tech, then there is no danger? He wakes up at 6am, and by 10am this is what he thinks is worth saying?
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upvoteby mdp20211 hours ago|
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Of course there is the obvious point that even rocks are dangerous in the wrong hands, but the note is against the running sketchy idea that the risk would be inherent, instead of derived. People who are afraid of technologies but not of the state of humanity are inconsistent to the supposed awareness of said obvious...

A bernie sanders has seemingly proposed 20 years of jail to anyone who tries to implement Intelligence. You know - that Value of which there is scarcity and dire need.

We have to go on.

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upvoteby breadsniffer015 hours ago|
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Agree with your take tbh. “Nuclear bombs do not pose an existential risk because the problem is human oversight”… Just sounds like a retreat to human oversight.
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