Why haven’t more people who work on alignment read Parallel Distributed Processing or even seem at all familiar with Rumelhart’s work? This is the fundamental model of cognition and behaviour that all of modern AI is built on, the work that Hinton used for most of his insights. The model that has constantly been validated over the years by neural network performance and capabilities, but most seem incredibly unfamiliar or disinterested in it. Am I missing something? Is there some grounded reason why they think PDP and connectionism will fail at a certain point? It seems this should be required reading for anyone wanting to get into alignment research.
[Question] Why aren’t more people in AIS familiar with PDP?
Why haven’t more people who work on alignment read Parallel Distributed Processing or even seem at all familiar with Rumelhart’s work? This is the fundamental model of cognition and behaviour that all of modern AI is built on, the work that Hinton used for most of his insights. The model that has constantly been validated over the years by neural network performance and capabilities, but most seem incredibly unfamiliar or disinterested in it. Am I missing something? Is there some grounded reason why they think PDP and connectionism will fail at a certain point? It seems this should be required reading for anyone wanting to get into alignment research.