also this post which is where I got the xAI co-founder statement from, also goes over other things

-the Anthropic team lead quitting (which we already discussed in this thread)

-AI is apparently so good a filmmaker with 7 years of experience said it could do 90% of his work

-The Anthropic safety team + Yoshua Bengio talking about AIs being aware of when they’re being tested and adjusting their behaviour (+ other safety stuff like deepfakes and cybercrime)

-the US government being ignorant about safety concerns and refusing to fund the AI international report (incredibly par for the course for this trash fire of an administration, they’ve defunded plenty of other safety projects as well)

another co-founder has quit praises Elongated Muskrat (lmfao) and says recursive-self improvement in the next 12 months and 100x productivity

read the whole article, of course Donald Trump is excited about this. Which also guarantees that this will crash and burn in no time at all

well that headline just filled me with dread

neither did I reading this article was my first exposure to him

the aforementioned wikipedia page has got some criticisms of his works under the critical reception section

this article involving an incredibly eyebrow-raising take from one of the people at METR (the team behind the famous “tasks AI can do doubles every 7 months” graph) saying AI is eventually going to become more impactful than the invention of agriculture and more transformative than the emergence of the human species and also calls it an intelligent alien species. Immensely funny amongst the other people saying “please stop treating AI like magic”

the Harari guy also seems to be into transhumanism if a skim of his wikipedia page is correct

OpenAI is probably toast tldr OpenAI’s financial situation is more cooked as a big investor shows doubt, WeWork 2 imminent

also completely leaving out important context on the Iran/stuxnet example, in that it was a joint effort between two countries believed to have been in development for five years. The idea that AIs will engage in lightspeed wars and disable all critical infrastructure in a single day while speaking in alien languages and creating alliances is unreasonable extrapolation of the capabilities. Also completely ignored the segment where the Anthropic team implemented safeguards and communicated with the teams behind the software to patch out the bugs. It’s the most blatant fearmongering ever. Thank god the comments contain reasonable responses and breakdowns of the post. That channel’s way of highlighting papers just pisses me off

community posts have been a thing for like, two years now? three?

babe wake uppp new fearmongering just dropped

Eliezer’s latest book says humans and chatbots are both “sentence-producing machines” so yes

Just decide to be sane, sanity is a skill issue

Yud has officially cured mental health forever, psychologists and therapists in shambles

2034 is also the year superintelligence is gonna happen according to the updated predictions from the AI 2027 crew, so double whammy!

Fuck, I was just about to post that. You beat me to the sneer

chatbots doing normal chatbot things

in follow-up posts he talks about how he’s broadly in favour of job automation, but has doubts our current government would be able to do that without fucking everyone over, he specified that “if it were a 1950’s government and congress I’d be more hopeful”

…so instead of proposing a solution like “protest against this” or “vote people in power who actually are responsible” he jumps to “your daughter should give up her career and become a sex worker for AI company shareholders”

with the Epstein shitstorm still raging, I would not be saying a damn thing about young women being sex workers for rich and powerful dudes

it’s listed author, David J. Temple, is a collective pseudonym used by several authors including by Marc Gafni, a disgraced New Age spiritual guru who’s been accused of sexually exploiting his followers

why does shit always have to turn out weird

Yeah, I can’t hold it against anyone for feeling scared and overwhelmed with what’s happening in America right now and fleeing. Hope he finds happiness soon

managed to find my source

funny how all the tech CEOs are the ones who are saying in the next couple years and all the researchers give 10-20 year timelines. surely this does not mean anything about the reliability of such claims

Anthropic doesn’t actually give a shit about any of the human harms created by the technology

It’s always been like that

but yeah it sounds like they got overwhelmed by all the shit happening in the world (there is a lot of shit happening in the world, especially in America) and left for their own mental health’s sake