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Alexander and Yudkowsky on AGI goals

A technical dialogue between Scott Alexander and Eliezer Yudkowsky exploring why AI alignment is difficult, covering the inapplicability of human moral development analogies, the nature of AI consequentialism, and skepticism about acausal trade as a safety mechanism.

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Jan 24, 2023 9,555 words 179 likes 53 comments Read Read

The Obligatory GPT-3 Post

Scott Alexander examines GPT-3's capabilities, improvements over GPT-2, and potential implications for AI development through scaling.

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Jun 10, 2020 3,643 words 0 likes 263 comments Listen · 27 min Read Read

A Very Unlikely Chess Game

Scott Alexander plays chess against GPT-2, an AI language model, and discusses the broader implications of AI's ability to perform diverse tasks without specific training.

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Jan 6, 2020 1,499 words 0 likes 182 comments Listen · 10 min Read Read

If Only Turing Was Alive To See This

Scott Alexander humorously describes AI-generated content simulating humans pretending to be robots pretending to be humans on Reddit.

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Jun 20, 2019 136 words 0 likes 109 comments Listen · 4 min Read Read

Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry

Scott Alexander examines AI-generated poetry produced by Gwern's GPT-2 model trained on classical poetry, highlighting its strengths and limitations.

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Mar 14, 2019 2,349 words 0 likes 186 comments Listen · 18 min Read Read

GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence

Scott Alexander explores GPT-2's unexpected capabilities and argues that it demonstrates the potential for AI to develop abilities beyond its explicit programming, challenging skepticism about AGI.

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Feb 19, 2019 3,491 words 0 likes 262 comments Listen · 28 min Read Read

Do Neural Nets Dream Of Electric Hobbits?

Scott Alexander draws parallels between OpenAI's GPT-2 language model and human dreaming, exploring their similarities in process and output quality.

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Feb 18, 2019 2,532 words 0 likes 188 comments Listen · 17 min Read Read
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