Rob Wiblin argues artificial intelligence systems from iterated optimization for narrow objectives have uninterpretable connections and generate erroneous outputs outside training distributions, offering little reason to expect full human capabilities

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OPRW#1115Rob Wiblin|@ROBERTWIBLIN

AIs are machines created by iterated optimisation for a narrow proxy objective, with trillions of connections nobody understands, prone to confident hallucination outside their training distribution – there's no good reason to think they be able to match all humans capabilities.

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QUOTE POSTAM#1735Andy Masley|@ANDYMASLEY

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RWRob Wiblin@robertwiblin

AIs are machines created by iterated optimisation for a narrow proxy objective, with trillions of connections nobody understands, prone to confident hallucination outside their training distribution – there's no good reason to think they be able to match all humans capabilities.

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