<div dir="ltr">China have a serious problem with their LLMs for mass consumption - as it seems to be a very difficult problem to RLHF an LLM into not referring to Winnie the Pooh, or avoiding mentioning two numbers in the same sentence that together form a dog-whistle for Tiananmen Square.<div><br></div><div>But they will /absolutely/ lean into it, and lean into it /hard/ where they can get administrative, productivity, or military advantages with it.</div><div><br></div><div>And yeah, any concentration of chip fabs that can spit out GPUs just became a strategic asset on par with uranium mines.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 11:49 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg7757835442524969826"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_7757835442524969826WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tara Maya via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] The case for how and why AI might kill us all<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…I'm just a humble historian…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">No way Tara. I am humbler than thou. OK time for a match up.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…All I can figure out is that these doomsayers are assuming AI will be pitted against humanity, whereas it seems far more likely to me that Humans-In-Group-A+AI will be pitted against Humans-in-Group-B without AI. In which case, yeah, it's obvious those with AI will win….<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">They sure will. I got to see that firsthand with a series of lawsuits my parents were involved in regarding land use in Oregon. They were being sued by neighbors to stop their building a house on 118 acres of farmland, which is too small to be farmed profitably without a house and equipment on the property (that’s just were we are in agriculture today.) <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">My mother really knows how to use the internet, and did. The neighbors, even though they have cable up there, either didn’t know how or just didn’t. The kept suing and bringing absurd cases which could easily be debunked with a few hours of due diligence, now about an hour with ChatGPT acting as one’s paralegal. She won ever case, with at least two of them being dismissed with prejudice, and one of them resulting in those bring the case committing extortion. She chose to not press charges. The house was built.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">This demonstrates the power of the internet and now ChatGPT in the hands of one party in a conflict but not the other. Do let me assure you, China rejoiced when they saw Eliezer’s proposal as the lede story on American mainstream media.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…I still see fear of technology as a greater danger than technology. Tara Maya<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Ja, I agree. This is not to say that fear of this technology is unjustifiable. My contention is that there is no way to stop it. We are not going to call in airstrikes on server farms. China really is likely to invade Taiwan to control GPU production.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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