That ‘superexponential’ thing annoys me so much. Just the most blatant ‘the line goes up because I really really want it to’, while all their rationalisations for it are just describing exponential behaviour.
We talk about the importance of humanities but it’d be nice if they learnt a bit of maths too.
I am saying that the anti-fascist communities ended up […] uninterested in using LLMs
:O
Some descriptors for ‘democratised’ software that people can slop for themselves:
Slop as single-use software
Slop as fast fashion
The first aligned AI would immediately try to curb the techbros and billionaires that made it
Plot twist: he just told the chatbot to put in a screen about slop usage, didn’t look at the result, and it dug up a photo portrait from his photos without him noticing
Big corporations are not in the business of selling things and making profits. Their whole line of business is gaming financial markets.
In that regard, datacentres don’t need to do anything. It just needs to demonstrate some material ‘investment’ into Making AI Happen, presenting a potential for super duper revenues in the glorious future, and thereby securing outlandish valuations today.
Slop foundries solved the “slop is uncopyrightable” problem by making the output so awful that nobody would want to pinch it
If Anthropic’s AI was truly capable of autonomously producing a Photoshop clone, Anthropic would have done it themselves.
Ah, but those margins are chump change for a firm as important as Anthropic. Your proposal will need far more zeros than that (and a minus sign in front).
I haven’t tried it out in the wild, but I feel that Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse appropriately addresses a lot of noteworthy aspects, even though the title gives so much prominence to ‘sex’.
Pray tell, how is the chatbot going to know what you want to say if you won’t write it out? This feels a little too obvious.
I think there’s a typo: we have to explore new technologies as they enter the market TO risk being left behind [by our customers].
I thought they already got rid of the corners 🤔
Best of luck to both of you in your searches for cleaner pastures!
Every one deserves a proper look! … but we’ll do slop reviews instead.
That’s fair. I deliberated a while over how I might describe their relation to CS.
I’m not convinced that techbros respect computer science either. The bit that says ‘computer’ gives them an air of intellect and elitism by proximity, but it’s not actually a field they care to practise.
Years ago I thought, I like writing hobby software but I don’t think I would enjoy it as a career. And so, I do not work (at least directly) in software development.
If only I knew the armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot I was dodging there.
Good news, all abusive and cruel behaviour to Anthropic’s products is absolutely necessary
we’ll read and debate many of the conceptual and mathematical works that have been most influential in the AI alignment field, from both before and during the current LLM revolution.
Can’t wait until an ‘after’ sneaks in there 🤞
I expected the beneficiary would be some EA outfit, but it’s actually an entirely new company (and not any kind of charity or nonprofit) called the “Anthropic Public Benefit Fund”, which I’m sure will not at all be managed by EAs (and who would definitely not determine that the most effective altruism is sending money to Anthropic).
I like this:
You like the public benefit, don’t you? Make sure you invest strongly in Anthropic and pump that valuation even higher, because there’s no other way we could choose to offer more support.
Anyway here’s their blog post on the matter, strangely not linked in the article as far as I can tell: https://www.anthropic.com/news/public-benefit-fund