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Connor Leahy
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US Director @ControlAI - Leave me anonymous feedback: bit.ly/3RZbu7x - I don't know how to save the world, but dammit I'm gonna try
- I think this tweet is one of the biggest advances in utilitarian philosophy of the 21st century
- I nominate Alan Turing for the first DeTuring Award.
I propose the creation of the DeTuring Award. It will be granted to people who are consistently trying (and failing) to deter society from using computer technology by scaring everyone with imaginary risks. As the Turing Award is the Nobel Prize of computing, the DeTuring Award - Remember when labs said if they saw models showing even hints of self awareness, of course they would immediately shut everything down and be super careful? "Is the water in this pot feeling a bit warm to any of you fellow frogs? Nah, must be nothing."Fun story from our internal testing on Claude 3 Opus. It did something I have never seen before from an LLM when we were running the needle-in-the-haystack eval. For background, this tests a model’s recall ability by inserting a target sentence (the "needle") into a corpus of
- Replying to @tszzlThanks for your response roon. You make a lot of good, well put points. It's extremely difficult to discuss "high meta" concepts like spirituality, duty and memetics even in the best of circumstances, so I appreciate that we can have this conversation even through the psychic
- This is the kind of stuff that makes me think that there will be no period of sorta stupid, human-level AGI. Humans can't perceive 3 hours of video at the same time. The first AGI will instantly be vastly superhuman at many, many relevant things.Replying to @JeffDeanVideo haystack For video, Gemini 1.5 Pro achieves 100% recall when looking for different visual needles hidden in ~3 hours of video.
- If we build machines that are more capable than all humans, then the future will belong to them, not to us. Everything else derives from this simple observation. Thank you @cambridgeunion for inviting me to make the case that "This House Believes AI Is An Existential Threat."
00:00 - This is purely anecdotal, but when the chatgpt glazing update hit, the number of "universal theories of intelligence and consciousness" I received in my inbox exploded to at least 10x as many per day as usual.
- I had a great time addressing the House of Lords about extinction risk from AGI. They were attentive and discussed some parallels between where we are now and non-nuclear proliferation efforts during the Cold War. It certainly provided me with some food for thought, and some
