[ExI] Hofstadter now fears AI

[Keith Henson]

I know Hofstadter and Eliezer slightly, I fix Hofstedte's Wikipedia
page for him when it departs intolerably from reality, and followed
Eiizers shock level 4 mailing list when most of the paper clip
arguments were going on.  The earliest version of "The Clinic Seed''
is posted there.

There is a lot of spread in how people think about AI.

At a Zoom meeting with some tech folks today someone who is working on
it talked about the combining of GPT-4 with Mathematica. Seems to be a
remarkable engineering tool. Ghod knows we need it with all the
problems facing us.

Also turns out that the combination does a remarkable job of educating
people on math.

Some time ago I mentioned that China was being left in the dust
regarding the government (CCP) coming down hard on AI.

The Washington Post has come to much the same conclusions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/03/china-us-ai-technology-chatgpt/

Keith

On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 5:32 PM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> “AI is about to eclipse humans”, predicts a leading academic
> 04/07/2023
>
> <https://nationworldnews.com/ai-is-about-to-eclipse-humans-predicts-a-leading-academic/>
>
> Quotes:
> Douglas Hofstadter has been a strong advocate of separating the terms
> intelligence and artificial intelligence over the years, not
> considering that technologies based on machine learning and other
> models are not worthy of being considered as intelligent as humans. So
> far, when systems like ChatGPT have sabotaged the plans of this
> academic He is “terrified” by the future of these powerful AI models.
>
> “Very soon, it’s quite possible that they (ChatGPT and other AIs) will
> be smarter than us, much smarter than us,” Hofstadter said in an
> interview.
>
> He says that his faith has been shaken by what he describes as a
> traumatic experience, believing that humans will soon be eclipsed by
> machines.
> --------------------
>
> The relevant 8 minutes of the video interview is here:
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfXxzAVtdpU&t=1763s>
> -------------
>
> It sounds like he is now agreeing with Eliezer.
>
> BillK
>
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