@jeffjarvis Hendryks is a newly minted PhD who is a co-director of the Center for AI Safety. The other director is an undergraduate Stanford student. Can't believe anyone would take this seriously.
@cfiesler Critical thinking is a rare skill in many institutions. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/06/03/junk-science-its-not-just-for-ted-talks-npr-features-and-airport-bestsellers-it-can-also-ruin-peoples-lives/
@ct_bergstrom Went down the rabbit hole on this after I saw the answer and found this article with a nice photo of Venus that really illustrates the effect. https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astrophotography/atmospheric-dispersion-corrector/
@jeffjarvis Kind of ironic that ChatGPT is advertising a $200K paralegal job - one of the jobs allegedly threatened by LLMs. https://openai.com/careers/litigation-paralegal
@glennf Pretty clear that Manjoo, who apparently was a hobbyist coder many years ago, doesn't really understand what a professional software developer does for a living. Hint: there's a lot more to it than spitting out syntactically correct code snippets that are functionally correct perhaps 70-80% of the time.
@ct_bergstrom How is this different than *any* kind of programming error that might kill people like, you know, software on a 737 Max?
This looks like a badly programmed RL reward function. WTF?
@ct_bergstrom I guess "AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue, Kills Human Operator in USAF video game" didn't get enough clicks in the A/B test.
@ct_bergstrom Give me chastity and continence, but not yet!
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/technology/ai-threat-warning.html?smid=tw-share
This scenario is why Daniel Dennett is right https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/problem-counterfeit-people/674075/ to say that the act of counterfeiting people is the great danger and that it should be illegal. Do whatever else you want with your AI; you should not be allowed to create fake humans for purposes of deception. https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/110402514310273332
Long-sought universal #flu #vaccine: #mRNA-based candidate enters #clinicaltrial
An mRNA-based flu vaccine designed to offer long-lasting protection against a broad range of #influenza viruses is now in a phase I clinical trial, #NIH announced. The phase I trial will test safety and efficacy in a small number of people. https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/05/experimental-universal-flu-vaccine-with-an-mrna-based-design-enters-trial/
Emily Bender takes down NPR's fawning interview with Geoffrey Hinton. https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1662520108621901824?s=20
@inthehands @kendraserra Such an old theme in technology. COBOL, "visual programming" etc. all marketed as programming for non-technical folks..
@paulgowder And wondering what the law might have to say about possible OpenAI liability despite their TOS.
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