I choose to believe people are either willfully or spifefully misinterpreting that "Are humans conscious" post, because the alternative is y'all bitches are just really that dumb. You can't define consciousness, and thus you cannot definitively prove its presence *or* its lack!
We’ve been handed a really interesting philosophical question on a platter and it’s a bummer how much of trh reaction to it amounts to sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming
I lean very strongly towards “LLMs are not conscious” but I think they really demonstrate how we don’t understand the consciousness other than our own and the replies to this post seem to focus on a “god of the gaps” philosophy in which anything a machine can do is not a sign of consciousness
First question: what event space is being conditioned over here
If you're too dense to grasp this, the problem with that bill that aims to regulate "legal advice" and "medical advice" from LLMs is those are BROAD CATEGORIES and if politicians are able to make "being trans in public" equal pornography, imagine what they can to do with a ban on "medical advice".
Meme image of obama awarding obama a medal
People that evaluate themselves on knowing their own cognitive processes:
any time the government tries to restrict my access to information i think they're bad and wrong.
lots of people ostensibly agree with this until it's about a regulation from the left, then they don't. i actually believe this and the burden for overcoming it is unfathomably high
I put a copy of my darling into a .tar.zstd in backup storage first
In many cases, the models themselves are the most compute intensive thing running on the system
additional nail in the coffin of model collapse: better results so far on a model retrained on its own synthetic traces.
We should really get people comfortable with a rapid release cadence for history if this is the reaction to an update after multiple decades
Synthesized
Usually
It's the exceptions that can be scary
It's hard to convey how nuts it feels when just about every few weeks to a month tops, some perfectly acceptable research establishes LLMs can do mental reasoning/metareasoning tasks critics say are impossible, and not only does it fail to register - it leads to increasingly aggressive dismissals
No, the US Supreme Court did not declare that AI works cannot be copyrighted
If you have been online recently you may have been a variation of this story that reads something like this: "The US Supreme Court declares that AI generated works aren't copyrightable." I won't name and shame all of the…
I have had people dig through my social media and pluck out a silly joke I made about being a human grappling with technology and try to use it as an example of why I can't do my job and shouldn't be paid. I have had that happen multiple times. I am not patient with this kind of behavior
i am really not convinced that anthropomorphization of LLMs is actually an important problem with them, or that engaging in them in this manner is always or even usually an indicator of faulty cognition. this is a fairly common, very human way of understanding and even critiquing complex systems.
Yes. As someone directly impacted by these laws, I’m absolutely going to wring my hands over whether suicide policy actually prioritizes well-studied, life-saving prevention strategies rather than feel-good “solutions” that further marginalize and harm people already struggling w/suicidal ideation.
anyway we could do something about this, the loudest people I know going "we need to make tech beneficial to actual people again" are all technologists, but it's easier to be doomers in people's mentions
"...with the topic of AI, it feels like people by and large have such an immense degree of totally unearned confidence in their opinions on the subject."
Wait until the Disc Horse finds out about this one
I knew working on suicide research was going to be heavy.
But what's actually starting to get to me is reading all of these chatbot suicide laws and legislative proposals that call for measures that have been shown to exacerbate crisis.
www.governor.ny.gov/sites/defaul...
Can't wait until we get Spectre-like timing attacks to exfiltrate sensitive information from LLMs
A reference code output would still be nice to have 🥺
Turns out, if you treat people who disagree with you with respect, and signal a willingness to find common ground, you’ll often end up having a productive conversation, and maybe even making a new friend!
Or you could spend your time insulting internet strangers. Up to you, I guess.
“people with disabilities don’t really benefit from AI”
“Here’s some things people with disabilities are using AI for”
“Okay but they only need to do those things because we aren’t providing them real support, from humans”
If your solution is “get people human in person aides,” cool, sure, go ahead
This is the needed corrective to the new round of "when humans write it's like music, every word carefully chosen and precisely placed" which is simply not the reality for most people and situations. Much of writing is a tedious task that we have to slog through to simply keep our job/day/etc going.
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I had to explain ARPANET to my girlfriend the other day and so had to say “basically all of this tech came out of the government/military”
The way people go “waaah privacy violation“ at the slightest mention of LLMs on here regardless of context is something. i remember when someone threw a fit about how feeding his public preprint to an LLM was a research ethics violation
