Thanks for sharing. You have good points, and so do they. Not engaging with the people actually working on these topics respectfully and on their terms alienated the very people you need.
They also make a great point there, that I see considered a lot in academia and less in this forum: the fact that we don’t need misaligned AGI for us to be in deep trouble with misaligned AI. Unfriendly AI is causing massive difficulties today, right now, very concrete difficulties that we need to find solutions for.
And the fact that a lot of us here are very receptive to claims of companies for what their products can do, which have generally not been written by engineers actually working on them, but by the marketing department. For every programmer I know working in a large company, I’ve heard them rant to no end that their own marketing department and popular science articles and news are representing their work as being able to already do things that it most definitely cannot do, and that they highlight doubt they will get it to do prior to release, let alone to reliably and well.
Thanks for sharing. You have good points, and so do they. Not engaging with the people actually working on these topics respectfully and on their terms alienated the very people you need.
They also make a great point there, that I see considered a lot in academia and less in this forum: the fact that we don’t need misaligned AGI for us to be in deep trouble with misaligned AI. Unfriendly AI is causing massive difficulties today, right now, very concrete difficulties that we need to find solutions for.
And the fact that a lot of us here are very receptive to claims of companies for what their products can do, which have generally not been written by engineers actually working on them, but by the marketing department. For every programmer I know working in a large company, I’ve heard them rant to no end that their own marketing department and popular science articles and news are representing their work as being able to already do things that it most definitely cannot do, and that they highlight doubt they will get it to do prior to release, let alone to reliably and well.