My own initial reaction to gpt2 helps me understand why pre-modern tribes reacted to being filmed and shown the footage like the camera was stealing their souls. Except, I *like* the idea instead of being horrified by it. Unfortunately as untrue for AIs as for film cameras.
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In fact, gpt2 has helped me clarify exactly why I think the moral/metaphysical panic around AI in general, and AGI in particular, is easily the silliest thing I’ll see in my lifetime. It’s the angels-on-a-pinhead concern of out time. Not even wrong.
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AI won’t steal our souls
AI won’t terk ehr jerbs
AI won’t create new kinds of risk
AI isn’t A or I
I’d call it “cognitive optics”... it’s a bunch of lenses and mirrors that reflect, refract, and amplify human cognition. AIs think in the same way telescopes see. Ie they don’t.
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I tried out the guys example with your tweet history and even after 3500 training iterations it still sounds like a vapid normie trying to work yr favorite words into a sentence. You really have to wade through a lot of dreck to cherry pick out a few slightly good ones
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I have it trained on full history and that’s much better but still mirrors

