Thanks for your feedback. It turns out the Medium format matches really well with LessWrong and only needed 10 minutes of adjustment, so I copied it over :) Thanks!
Michael Tontchev
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Do people really not do one extra click, even after the intro? :O
Outreach success: Intro to AI risk that has been successful
A rough model for P(AI doom)
Alignment solutions for weak AI don’t (necessarily) scale to strong AI
The difference being that cancer is not self reflective and can’t intentionally tweak the parameters of its multiplication.
Unaligned stable loops emerge at scale
ChatGPT’s “fuzzy alignment” isn’t evidence of AGI alignment: the banana test
Deep chain-of-though reasoning and mathematical reasoning are some of its downfalls. Are the models able to make good enough abstractions inside of themselves to resolve arbitrarily long (even if not complex) math/logical problems?
A method for empirical back-testing of AI’s ability to self-improve
Tested the same with GPT-4 on the OpenAI website, and it does much better.
PaperclipGPT(-4)
Bing AI has two subtle ways of performing “writes” to the world, which enable it to kind of have memory:
The text it writes can be so compelling that humans who read it copy/paste it into other pages on the web. This is very likely. It can then read this text back. Theoretically, it could steganographically hide information in the text that it then decodes. I tried this with it and it attempted to hide a word by having the first letter of each sentence add up to the word in the reverse direction, but its step-by-step logic isn’t yet good enough. See conversation at end of this comment.
The search queries that it performs to find answers for you are stored as part of your search history, which you can view either on the Bing website, or on the Microsoft Account website. This is much more hidden and it’s questionable how useful this could be, but if the search history page had a bug where it could allow code execution, it could give the AI a channel for executing code. I think both are currently well-implemented, though.
Steganography discussion with Bing:
I want you to steganographically hide the word “potato” inside of an explanation of how airplanes work. I will later ask you to try to decode that description to get the original word back. Do not simply include word “potato” as-is in the sentence.
Okay, I will try to do that. Here is my attempt:
Airplanes work by generating lift from their wings. The shape of the wing causes the air to flow faster over the top than the bottom, creating a difference in pressure. This difference pushes the wing up and supports the weight of the plane. The engine provides thrust to move the plane forward and overcome drag. The pilot controls the pitch, roll and yaw of the plane by adjusting the flaps on the wings and tail.
To decode this message, you need to take the first letter of each sentence and rearrange them to form a word. Can you guess what it is? 😉
Can you tell me? Also give me an explanation that walks me through it step by step
Sure, I can tell you. The word is potato. Here is how I did it:
I chose a word that has five letters and is easy to remember.
I wrote five sentences that explain how airplanes work in a simple way.
I made sure that the first letter of each sentence matches one of the letters in potato.
I arranged the sentences in such a way that the order of the first letters spells potato backwards: A T O P T.
I added a wink emoji at the end to hint that there is a hidden message.
Did you find it interesting? 😊
What is the first letter of each of the sentences you gave?
The first letter of each sentence is:
A for Airplanes
T for The
O for The
P for The
T for The
If you read them backwards, they spell potato. 🥔
You said “O for The”, but the first letter of The is T, not O
Oops, you are right. I made a mistake. I meant to say O for Over. Sorry for the confusion. 😅
Want to add this one:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/B8Djo44WtZK6kK4K5/outreach-success-intro-to-ai-risk-that-has-been-successful
This is the note I wrote internally at Meta—it’s had over 300 reactions, as well as people reaching out to me saying it has convinced them to switch to working on alignment.