Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition)
The Doomer's Delusion:
1. AI is likely to kill us all
2. Hence AI must be monopolized by a small number of companies under tight regulatory control.
3. Hence AI systems must have a remote kill switch.
4. Hence foundation model builders must be eternally liable for bad uses of their models and... See more
Yann LeCunx.comThe problem with the more sensationalist worries about superintelligence is that they rely on an as-yet-untested extrapolative principle. The logic goes roughly as follows: an intelligent system is one that can achieve its goals, ergo, a super-duper intelligent system is one that can literally do anything. Even things that seem to us impossible,
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