ShardPhoenix

OpenAI writes a (vague) blog explaining how they plan to adjust ChatGPT from here. Their key plans are: 1. Improve default behavior. We want as many users as possible to find our AI systems useful to them “out of the box” and to feel that our technology understands and respects...

Spoilers: they don't think it can be ruled out.

Here's a talk where Open AI co-founder Ilya Sutskever talks about the issue of AI progress and AGI. (Before the timestamp he was talking about Open AI's specific projects such as Dota 2 and their hand robot). tl;dw: (italics indicate my interpolations): * AGI in the near-medium term can't be...

I've found it hard to link to urls with underscores (common on Wikipedia). I wasn't sure how to escape them to prevent them from creating italics - adding a backslash just seemed to make the editor go haywire, with the cursor jumping around and putting characters in the wrong place...

There has been previous discussion on LW on the topic of how to quickly determine if someone might be good at programming. This is relevant because this is currently a good career field that can be relatively easy to enter, and because programming-style thinking is often relevant to LW topics...

(The following may only apply to me. I mention it to see if anyone else has had the same issue). For a long time I have been only looking at the Discussion section and promoted main page articles. Just now on a whim I checked the non-promoted main page articles...

Next week I'm going to be doing a 10-15 minute presentation on Friendly AI to a local group of programmers. They're already familiar with concepts such as the singularity. My basic plan is to cover what FAI is, why it's important, and why it's a hard problem, based on the...