it's getting harder for me to understand people who *don't* think there's a very serious risk of AI takeover very soon.

Harvard published a paper with a devastating title: “Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus” It frames ChatGPT adoption as a virus outbreak. Researchers from Harvard and Santa Fe Institute analyzed LLMs through the lens of evolutionary biology, complex systems, and… Show more

“LLM intelligence is wildly dissimilar to that of human intelligence and we won’t trivially get to something superior to human intelligence in all important respects just by scaling up existing approaches”

Hinton said that LLMs are actually much more intelligent than we think. That they are faking their intelligence. That they are preparing to take over. It’s so sad. It’s so sad to see Hinton ending his career in this way. Like Montagnier, the Nobel’s laureate in… Show more

"LLMs still lack understanding. … they're still limited on the deeper conceptual issues. At some level, they just go through the motions, but still lack the ability to take a step back, think about what they're doing and why they're doing it."

LLM's are intelligent. Their intelligence, however, is not ours. In understanding ourselves through this other, we misunderstand ourselves and the other.