'AI is just linear algebra' feels like a midwit thing, where someone's figured out enough about the world to be excited by reductionism, but not enough to realise that it's universal.

The last few days exploded the myth that Sam Altman's incredible power faces any accountability.
He tells us we shouldn't trust him, but we now know the board *can't* fire him.
I think that's important.

ceo any% 55:32 — new record???

Ten-year-old about to play chess for the first time, skeptical that he'll lose to Magnus Carlsen: 'Can you explain how he'll defeat me, when we've both got the same pieces, and I move first? Will he use some trick for getting all his pawns to the back row to become Queens?'

Για να δούμε ποια δημοσιογράφος θα στριμώξει τον Μητσοτάκη; Η γυναίκα του ανιψιού του ή η γυναίκα του στελέχους του κόμματος του; Μεγάλη αγωνία. #debate

One Ding to rule em all. #NepoDing

Connor Leahy Zvi Mowshowitz

Six months, just give me six months bro, I'll align this. I'll align the hell out of this. Just six months bro. I promise you. It'll be crazy. Just six months. Bro, I'm telling you, I have a plan. I have it all mapped out. I just need six months bro, and it'll be done. Can you i-

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A short 🧵on why we're calling for this - (1/8)

It would be cool if people would hold off on major AI releases until I'm done explaining the problems with the previous one

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If we all die because people heard us yelling about how dangerously hard Alignment is but only understood 'AGI is a big deal', I'll be annoyed.

If we die because our writing on how AGI could kill us ends up in the dataset and biases the AGI towards that, I'll be *very* annoyed.

My new favorite thing - Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says 'You have not been a good user'

Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby

I take payment in Bitcoin.

Finally, I had to try out the paperclip test, since it's practically the Hello World of alignment at this point. Nice to know there will be a few humans left over!

As long as Greek authorities are not willing to share official records and documents, we have to build a puzzle with the pieces available. Luckily there are many pieces to work with.

**Ενημερωμένη** μελέτη μας για θνητότητα 🇬🇷 διασωληνωμένων #COVID19 ασθενών σε σχέση με το φόρτο του συστήματος υγείας, ως Απρίλιο 2022 (η αρχική, στο SJPH - που συζητήθηκε πολύ - έφτανε ως Μάιο 2021).
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Αναδεικνύει τρία σημαντικά ευρήματα:

Ο πρωθυπουργός (επαναλαμβάνω: ο πρωθυπουργός) της χώρας Κ. Μητσοτάκης δήλωσε για τη μικρή από τη Σύρια που πέθανε στον #Έβρο στη Βουλή:

'...και μάλιστα να το βαφτίζουν και Μαρία τις ημέρες της Παναγίας; Ντροπή'.

Γνώρισα τους γονείς και τα αδέρφια της Μαρίας... 1/

Chairs.

This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…