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AI lab experience and belief in artificial general intelligence

One post argues that watching AI succeed at tasks it wasn't explicitly trained for may help explain why lab insiders are more inclined to believe in AGI.

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A post suggests that people working in AI, especially inside labs, are more inclined to believe in AGI partly because they see AI succeed at tasks they know they didn't explicitly train it for. Outsiders could instead attribute every success to costly, explicit training—an explanation the author says is partly, but not completely, true.

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@kellerjordan0I think one of the reasons people in the AI field — especially in the labs — tend to be more AGI-pilled than people outside is that we get to observe AI succeed at tasks that we know for a fact we didn’t explicitly train it for. Whereas if you’re outside the labs, then in theory (stretching the imagination), every AI success so far could be downstream of some kind of costly explicit training effort by the lab insiders (which is partly but not completely true). In other words, being a lab insider gives you a direct observation of the “magical” properties of this synthetic-brain technology. Whereas for outsiders, AI’s abilities can always plausibly seem artificial/non-magical/man-made.

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@kellerjordan0I think one of the reasons people in the AI field — especially in the labs — tend to be more AGI-pilled than people outside is that we get to observe AI succeed at tasks that we know for a fact we didn’t explicitly train it for. Whereas if you’re outside the labs, then in theory (stretching the imagination), every AI success so far could be downstream of some kind of costly explicit training effort by the lab insiders (which is partly but not completely true). In other words, being a lab insider gives you a direct observation of the “magical” properties of this synthetic-brain technology. Whereas for outsiders, AI’s abilities can always plausibly seem artificial/non-magical/man-made.