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0 points_yb2s3y ago0 comments

Most of the comments here are denial and goalpost shifting... GPT-4 has different strengths and weaknesses from humans, but it is now in the general realm of human intelligence vs being far below that with GPT-3.

Another jump past GPT-4 of the same magnitude, would greatly surpass human cognitive abilities and present a danger to humanity.

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maxdoop3y ago

Thank you.

Every single step forward with AI is met with a massive amount of people shrugging it off for whatever latest goal post they plant.

danparsonson3y ago

And an (at least) equally massive number of people overstating its capabilities on the basis of some impressive demos. It's incredible, absolutely, but it's still 'just' a language model, with the same inherent limitations - it's important that we keep our feet on the ground and not get carried away.

semicolon_storm3y ago

How do you figure that we can still confidently say it’s just a language model?

It was trained on language for the primary purpose of producing text, but that’s not necessarily all it can do. The billions of nodes and parameters it contains allows it to compute ultra complicated equations. Who’s to say some subset of those nodes aren’t forming some basic primitive used for reasoning?

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d233y ago

I’m convinced when the AI is released that triggers the singularity, the last human comment made on the internet will be on HN: “this isn’t that big of a deal, really.”

semicolon_storm3y ago

“When it dreams about annihilating all of humanity, it’s not really feeling the same rage coursing through its veins as we do. It’s just fancy autocomplete, nothing to write home about.”

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0 points_yb2s3y ago0 comments

Another jump past GPT-4 of the same magnitude, would greatly surpass human cognitive abilities and present a danger to humanity.

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maxdoop3y ago

Thank you.

Every single step forward with AI is met with a massive amount of people shrugging it off for whatever latest goal post they plant.

danparsonson3y ago

semicolon_storm3y ago

How do you figure that we can still confidently say it’s just a language model?

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d233y ago

I’m convinced when the AI is released that triggers the singularity, the last human comment made on the internet will be on HN: “this isn’t that big of a deal, really.”

semicolon_storm3y ago

“When it dreams about annihilating all of humanity, it’s not really feeling the same rage coursing through its veins as we do. It’s just fancy autocomplete, nothing to write home about.”

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