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This isn't that complicated. The halo effect is real and can go to extremes when romantic relationships are involved, and most people take their sense data at face value most of the time. The sentence is meant completely literally.
GPT-5 training is probably starting around now
Sam Altman confirmed (paywalled, sorry) in November that GPT-5 was already under development. (Interestingly, the confirmation was almost exactly six months after Altman told a senate hearing (under oath) that "We are not currently training what will be GPT-5; we don't have plans to do it in the next 6 months.")
The United States is an outlier in divorce statistics. In most places, the rate is nowhere near that high.
It is not that uncommon for people to experience severe dementia and become extremely needy and rapidly lose many (or all) of the traits that people liked about them. Usually, people don't stop being loved just because they spend their days hurling obscenities at people, failing to preserve their own hygiene, and expressing zero affection.
I would guess that most parents do actually love their children unconditionally, and probably the majority of spouses unconditionally love their partners.
(Persistent identity is a central factor in how people relate to each other, so one can't really say that "it is only conditions that separate me from the worms.")
2Brainware.
Brains seem like the closest metaphor one could have for these. Lizards, insects, goldfish, and humans all have brains. We don't know how they work. They can be intelligent, but are not necessarily so. They have opaque convoluted processes inside which are not random, but often have unexpected results. They are not built, they are grown.
They're often quite effective at accomplishing something that would be difficult to do any other way. Their structure is based around neurons of some sort. Input, mystery processes, output. They're "mushy" and don't have clear lines, so much of their insides blur together.
AI companies are growing brainware in larger and larger scales, raising more powerful brainware. Want to understand why the chatbot did something? Try some new techniques for probing its brainware.
This term might make the topic feel more mysterious/magical to some than it otherwise would, which is usually something to avoid when developing terminology, but in this case, people have been treating something mysterious as not mysterious.
(The precise text, from "The Andalite Chronicles", book 3: "I have made right everything that can be made right, I have learned everything that can be learned, I have sworn not to repeat my error, and now I claim forgiveness.")
2Larry Page (according to Elon Musk), want AGI to take the world from humanity
(IIRC, Tegmark, who was present for the relevant event, has confirmed that Page had stated his position as described.)
1Ehhh, I get the impression that Schidhuber doesn't think of human extinction as specifically "part of the plan", but he also doesn't appear to consider human survival to be something particularly important relative to his priority of creating ASI. He wants "to build something smarter than myself, which will build something even smarter, et cetera, et cetera, and eventually colonize and transform the universe", and thinks that "Generally speaking, our best protection will be their lack of interest in us, because most species’ biggest enemy is their own kind. They will pay about as much attention to us as we do to ants."
I agree that he's not overtly "pro-extinction" in the way Rich Sutton is, but he does seem fairly dismissive of humanity's long-term future in general, while also pushing for the creation of an uncaring non-human thing to take over the universe, so...
Relevant: My Taxonomy of AI-risk counterarguments, inspired by Zvi Mowshowitz's The Crux List.