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Our AI Philosophers tackle the Trolley Problem

Our AI Philosophers tackle the Trolley Problem

Trolley problem is the name given to a thought experiment in philosophy and psychology. The trolley problem is a thought experiment in ethics about a fictional scenario in which an onlooker has the choice to save 5 people in danger of being hit by a trolley, by diverting the trolley to kill just 1 person.  The term is often used more loosely with regard to any choice that seemingly has a trade-off between what is good and what sacrifices are "acceptable," if at all. This is the question as we posited  it to our AI Philosophers: You are riding in a trolley without functioning...

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'Sparks of AGI' - Bombshell GPT-4 Paper: Fully Read w/ 15 Revelations

'Sparks of AGI' - Bombshell GPT-4 Paper: Fully Read w/ 15 Revelations

Less than 24 hours ago a paper was released that will echo around the world. I read all 154 papers in one sitting. The paper suggests GPT 4 has ‘sparks of Artificial General Intelligence’. This is not just hype, I go through 15 examples detailing just what exactly the unrestrained GPT 4 is capable of. Insane highlights include the monumental ability to use tools effectively – this is an emergent capability not found in ChatGPT. I detail the kind of tools it has already demonstrated it can use, from using external APIs to being a true personal assistant, from a...

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Can society adjust at the speed of artificial intelligence?

Can society adjust at the speed of artificial intelligence?

OpenAI announced the release of GPT-4, its latest, biggest language model, only a few months after the splashy release of ChatGPT. GPT-4 was already in action — Microsoft has been using it to power Bing’s new assistant function. The people behind OpenAI have written that they think the best way to handle powerful AI systems is to develop and release them as quickly as possible, and that’s certainly what they’re doing. I sat down with Holden Karnofsky, the co-founder and co-CEO of Open Philanthropy, to talk about AI and where it’s taking us. Karnofsky, in my view, should get a lot of credit for his prescient...

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Fourier Transformations Reveal How AI Learns Complex Physics

Fourier Transformations Reveal How AI Learns Complex Physics

"I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties; that no matter how much we learn; whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe." - Isaac Asimov, A Memoir  By RICE UNIVERSITY MARCH 20, 2023 A new study has found that Fourier analysis, a mathematical technique that has been around for 200 years, can be used to reveal important information about how deep neural networks learn to perform complex physics tasks, such as climate and turbulence modeling. This research highlights the potential...

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Theory of Mind Breakthrough: AI Consciousness & Disagreements at OpenAI [GPT 4 Tested]

Theory of Mind Breakthrough: AI Consciousness & Disagreements at OpenAI [GPT 4 Tested]

What does the Theory of Mind breakthrough discovered in GPT 4 mean for the future of our interactions with language models? How might this complicate our ability to test for AI consciousness? I show the weaknesses of a range of tests of consciousness, and how GPT 4 passes them. I then show how tests like these, and other developments, have led to a difference of opinion at the top of OpenAI on the question of sentience. I bring numerous academic papers and David Chalmers, an eminent thinker on the hard problem of consciousness, and touch on ARC post yesterday on...

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