Is it being marketed loudly in the corporate media?
I don't think Yudkowsky's article is in the print edition of TIME, it's in "Time Ideas" whatever that is. Not many other mainstream publications have said much about Yudkowsky's position. Fox News's correspondent did use his time at the White House press conference to ask about it, and the poor press secretary was blindsided and had to go on about the Biden administration's blueprint for AI regulations to protect privacy and prevent discrimination.
I don't really follow the mainstream news, but there was probably some amount of comment about the open letter (with signatures from neural-network pioneers Hinton and Bengio, also Hopfield) to put a moratorium on training stronger systems than GPT-4, but the language in that letter was less apocalyptic.
There's a thoughtful article by Ezra Klein about many strange aspects of this situation, including the psychologically and economically entrapped recklessness of current AI developers:
“The coders casting these spells have no idea what will stumble through the portal. What is oddest, in my conversations with them, is that they speak of this freely. These are not naifs who believe their call can be heard only by angels. They believe they might summon demons. They are calling anyway.”
Well, I think it's thoughtful anyway. You might still count it as loud marketing.
Also a profile on CBS of Hinton, with a couple minutes at the end given to his opinion that humanity getting wiped out isn't an inconceivable outcome and this is concerning.
I think right now it's still somewhere in between thinkpieces and opinion pieces, rather than ordinary headline news.
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Re: Occult Repercussions of AGI
Date: 2023-04-04 02:32 am (UTC)I don't think Yudkowsky's article is in the print edition of TIME, it's in "Time Ideas" whatever that is. Not many other mainstream publications have said much about Yudkowsky's position. Fox News's correspondent did use his time at the White House press conference to ask about it, and the poor press secretary was blindsided and had to go on about the Biden administration's blueprint for AI regulations to protect privacy and prevent discrimination.
I don't really follow the mainstream news, but there was probably some amount of comment about the open letter (with signatures from neural-network pioneers Hinton and Bengio, also Hopfield) to put a moratorium on training stronger systems than GPT-4, but the language in that letter was less apocalyptic.
There's a thoughtful article by Ezra Klein about many strange aspects of this situation, including the psychologically and economically entrapped recklessness of current AI developers:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/opinion/chatbots-artificial-intelligence-future-weirdness.html
“The coders casting these spells have no idea what will stumble through the portal. What is oddest, in my conversations with them, is that they speak of this freely. These are not naifs who believe their call can be heard only by angels. They believe they might summon demons. They are calling anyway.”
Well, I think it's thoughtful anyway. You might still count it as loud marketing.
Also a profile on CBS of Hinton, with a couple minutes at the end given to his opinion that humanity getting wiped out isn't an inconceivable outcome and this is concerning.
I think right now it's still somewhere in between thinkpieces and opinion pieces, rather than ordinary headline news.