Links for 2023-05-03
End of the world by Godlike AI now being earnestly discussed on CNN:
1. https://twitter.com/amanpour/status/1653452034463367168
The ‘godfather’ of AI Geoffrey Hinton warns it’s not inconceivable AI could lead to the extinction of the human race.
AI researcher & expert Connor Leahy @NPCollapse fears it’s worse than that: “It’s quite likely, unfortunately.”
“We do not know how to control these things.”
2. https://twitter.com/amanpour/status/1653455411423346704
We have to realise what people are talking about: The destruction of the human race. […] Who would want to continue playing with that risk? It is preposterous, it is almost absurd when you think about it, but it is happening today.
These questions are extremely important for every single person alive today, and we should be demanding answers (preferably under oath) from the people racing forwards recklessly towards Godlike AI.
If this trend continues, short AI timelines become less likely. Are we witnessing an anthropic shadow?
What 2025 looks like https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JeMGZNZ6tuBWJHqvi/what-2025-looks-like
Baby AGIs interacting in the real world via phone https://twitter.com/vocodehq/status/1653104377010483201
IBM to Pause Hiring for Jobs That AI Could Do [Bloomberg] https://archive.is/QmwP0
LLMs: Learning to Reason and Memorize with Self-Notes https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00833
Causal Reasoning and Large Language Models: Opening a New Frontier for Causality https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00050
davidad: “The semantics of “Happy cows come from California” is very different depending on whether one interprets it as a sentence [∃x (happy(x) ∧ cow(x) ∧ comes_from(x, California))] or as a slogan [∀x (C(x) ∧ F(x, a) → H(x))]. GPT-4 understands this perfectly.” https://poe.com/s/n5UP5J6pLCvCsSz4Sa4M
Translating deep learning to neuroprosthetic control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.21.537581v1
Organoid Intelligence: Computing on the Brain -- Small spheres of neurons show promise for drug testing and computation https://spectrum.ieee.org/organoid-intelligence-computing-on-brain
A proposal to build new hardware and thermodynamic algorithms for stochastic computing https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/04/30/a-proposal-to-build-new-hardware-and-thermodynamic-algorithms-for-stochastic-computing/
Could a superintelligence deduce general relativity from a falling apple? An investigation https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ALsuxpdqeTXwgEJeZ/could-a-superintelligence-deduce-general-relativity-from-a
Apparently, nobody is able to calculate the correct boiling temperature of water from our current state-of-the-art fundamental physics knowledge https://twitter.com/RokoMijic/status/1652896587012505600
Moderna, Merck data support claim of cancer vaccine’s promise https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/moderna-merck-cancer-vaccine-aacr-results/647744/
“We can thus imagine a technologically highly advanced society, containing many sorts of complex structures, some of which are much smarter and more intricate than anything that exists today, in which there would nevertheless be a complete absence of any type of being whose welfare has moral significance. In a sense, this would be an uninhabited society. All the kinds of being that we care even remotely about would have vanished.” https://nickbostrom.com/fut/evolution
Autoimmune thyroid diseases as a cost of physiological autoimmune surveillance https://www.cell.com/trends/immunology/fulltext/S1471-4906%2823%2900051-0
Highly Dexterous Robot Hand Can Operate in the Dark — Just Like Us https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/highly-dexterous-robot-hand-can-operate-in-the-dark
Do we still need moderators and politicians now that we have AI agents? https://twitter.com/honeyimholm/status/1653158161358962688
GeneFace++: Generalized and Stable Real-Time Audio-Driven 3D Talking Face Generation https://genefaceplusplus.github.io/
When you leave the confines of your (NeRF) simulation. https://www.tiktok.com/@hoodwinkedfool/video/7216032621057363246
The increasing quality and decreasing difficulty of creating deepfakes reminds me of the Swedish war pamphlet that was delivered to every single household.
It includes the following warning:
If Sweden is attacked by another country, we will never give up. All information to the effect that resistance is to cease is false.
If you want to terrify any writer or academic friend of yours, just send them the final lines of this obituary.