maybe a reasonable path forward is to try to wring as much productivity as we can out of the passive, superhuman, quasi-oracular just-dumb-data-predictors. And avoid as much as we can ever creating closed-loop, open-ended, free-rein agents.
I should say that I do see this as a reasonable path forward! But we don’t seem to be coordinating to do this, and AI researchers seem to love doing work on open-ended agents, which sucks.
Hm, regardless it doesn’t really move the needle, so long as people are publishing all of their work. Developing overpowered pattern recognizers is similar to increasing our level of hardware overhang. People will end up using them as components of systems that aren’t safe.
Hm, regardless it doesn’t really move the needle, so long as people are publishing all of their work. Developing overpowered pattern recognizers is similar to increasing our level of hardware overhang. People will end up using them as components of systems that aren’t safe.
I strongly disagree. Gain of function research happens, but it’s rare because people know it’s not safe. To put it mildly, I think reducing the number of dangerous experiments substantially improves the odds of no disaster happening over any given time frame
I should say that I do see this as a reasonable path forward! But we don’t seem to be coordinating to do this, and AI researchers seem to love doing work on open-ended agents, which sucks.
Hm, regardless it doesn’t really move the needle, so long as people are publishing all of their work. Developing overpowered pattern recognizers is similar to increasing our level of hardware overhang. People will end up using them as components of systems that aren’t safe.
I strongly disagree. Gain of function research happens, but it’s rare because people know it’s not safe. To put it mildly, I think reducing the number of dangerous experiments substantially improves the odds of no disaster happening over any given time frame