AI Hype Threatens Existential or Economic Catastrophe
Generative AI in nutshell: "If the technology is as formidable as the [tech CEO's] claim, then they could be leading us toward existential disaster; if the technology proves less transformative, and thus less valuable than the hype suggests, then they are merely setting us up for global economic disaster." --@chaykak in The New Yorker
Simple Systems Can Still Pose Serious Risks
Why why why is it so hard to understand that stupid systems can still be dangerous?
AGI Requires Both Symbolic Logic and Neural Networks
💯. “@garymarcus has won, others too” And the smart people already know it. AGI requires both symbols and neural networks. Period.
Practitioner Calls LLM Hype Dangerous, Calls Them Dumb
👇 “I still maintain that LLMs are really dumb and of limited use. it’s my opinion as a practitioner and professional that the hype being peddled by the AI corporations and self promoters (from X grifters right up to academia)...
Act Now: Balanced AI Regulation Over Innovation Risks
To a degree that may surprise some people, I agree with much of this* from @deanwball and would only add that you don’t have to believe that AGI is remotely close to want to find—ASAP—a regulatory regime that foster innovation...
LLM Narrative Drift Sparks Endless Commentary
Indeed, if the LLM crew would just stick to this narrative, I would have a *lot* less to say 🤷♂️
OpenAI's "Benefit Humanity" Promise Under Scrutiny
Everything you need to know about “Open”AI’s claims to be working on AI “for the benefit of humanity”. https://t.co/qQLX2wIz8M
Oracle Plummets Under Male CEOs, Sexism Spikes
Oracle is down more than 50% since two men (jointly) took over Safra Catz’s CEO job. Sexism is up 500%? 5000%?
Mythos Isn’t AGI; Just a Specialized, Incremental Model
I rest my case: Mythos isn’t AGI. It’s not even better at biology than the last model. It’s tuned to particular things, not a giant advance towards general intelligence. Same as it ever was.
GenAI Stalls; OpenAI Turns to Media Acquisition
GenAI’s popularity has hit a wall. Hard to see how OpenAI is going to make its numbers, and easy to see why they bought a media company. Their work is cut out for them. https://t.co/9Pv8QBpqzH
DeepMind CEO Claims They'd Cure Cancer, Not ChatGPT
This – “The CEO of Google DeepMind (@demishassabis) just admitted that if the decision had been his, we would've cured cancer before anyone ever used ChatGPT.” is exactly what i am trying to say in my pinned tweet, in different...
Mythos Hype Debunked: No Real Breakthrough
Yesterday’s Mythos announcement from Anthropic was overblown. • Sandboxing was turned off, so test didn’t show much about the real world. • Cheap open-weight models can (already) do some similar stuff • No evidence that Mythos itself is a major qualitative jump. In short, we got...
Anthropic's New Mythos Report Raises Al
What Should We Take From Anthropic’s (possibly) Terrifying New Report on Mythos? – @garymarcus’s latest @CACMmag https://t.co/gTmjQyl1AZ
Seven Years Lost: AI Still Fails Temporal Reasoning
To anyone who read Rebooting AI back in (checks notes) 2019, this is both hilarious and unsuprising. The field has wasted 7 years on an architecture that can’t solve one of the most basic litmus tests Davis and I discussed then:...
LLMs Fuel Exaggerated Posts to Game Engagement Algorithms
“Social media algs reward engagement, and LLMs are excellent at writing in different styles, so people use LLMs to translate posts and news stories into [exaggerated, misleading] versions that get more engagement” I see a ton of that here. not good.
