I'd wager 99.99% of humanity would not want to start a nuclear war by vaporizing millions of people, animals, etc. with a nuke. They'd back away slowly and figure out how to ensure it was safely disposed of so they didn't need to be near it or worry about it.
A very small number of people would like to have a nuke with which to harm other people.
Some of those people even probably got that way because of actions taken by people saying things like "if we don't do it, somebody worse will" and "we are the only ones who can be trusted to control this power"
@sudb, I salute your effort. It is unfortunate how little this person took from your attempts at a genuine exchange.
Without moving goal posts: @27183: the word intelligence is defined as "noun. The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge."
LLMs can absolutely do this via in-context learning. They can even persist this as mementos on disk and re-attend to it later if its been purged from their context window.
You might try to make some comment like "they're not learning in the way humans do, they're not changing their weights, and they predict token by token!" Who cares? That's semantics - LLM attention is able to accumulate contributions of tokens and weights mixed together head by head and layer by layer with non-linear activations which functionally quack like intelligence.
They may be far different from us, but they're functionally intelligent (at least in several subsets of intelligence. And frankly, in some cases, they're more functionally capable than many humans).
Birds, planes, helicopters, rockets and gliders don't achieve flight in the same way, or have remotely the same capabilities in the air - but all are nonetheless forms of flight.
Indeed, the real fun signal here is the conflict between how intelligent humans think they are and the different story told by much of human behavior, including within this very thread!
When an LLM makes a cognitive mistake, humans jeer "dumb stochastic parrot!" - when a human does the same, many are blind to it. Like a weird auto-Gell-Mann Amnesia - relative to reflecting on our own perceived cognitive "strengths" versus others weaknesses.
They already possess general intelligence by many metrics. Sure they miss a few, but that's nitpicky and goalpost shifty - lots of humans make errors of all sorts as well, or incur brain damage limiting them in one or a few areas of intelligence - we don't then say they are not general intelligence anymore.
I think maybe you mean superintelligence, which is a more fair critique.
No, they're proposing a spying panopticon and state control of global resource distribution - specifically general purpose compute - including seizing and destroying GPUs. They're proposing a totalitarian global dictatorship controlling computing hardware and software.
No, they're proposing a spying panopticon and state control of global resource distribution - specifically general purpose compute - including seizing and destroying GPUs. They're proposing a totalitarian global state.
Having a PC at all back then made you relatively privileged and probably relatively wealthy compared to those of us living in families on food stamps.
I saved money and bought a 2400 baud modem from a classified ad for $25 (had to drive a couple of towns over to pick it up) in something like 1995. IIRC, it was well over a hundred dollars for a 14.4 modem at whatever time that was. My whole 8086 PS/2 computer was salvaged parts, paid for by my own savings from my underage labor.
"However, these inference optimizations, which rival Anthropic refers to as “compute multipliers,” are a big focus for all the labs. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been publicly talking about the concept since at least mid-2023, when he said on a podcast that the company limits “the number of people who are aware of a given compute multiplier” because it could give other AI labs a leg up if they were to be able to replicate them. (Compute multipliers can also refer to efficiency optimizations in the model-training phase.)"
Yes, on a world with finite resources where your industry is singlehandedly siphoning ALL THE RESOURCES - hoard general efficiency optimizations and treat them as trade secrets - winning is all that matters, normal people and other species and the planet be damned.
Everything I hear about Dario these days makes me like him less and less. He sure did seem to speed run the 'tech leader with scruples' to 'tech villain' path! I guess all the cycles are compressing as we approach the singularity..
+1 fiber over short distance just adds power/heat and latency compared to DAC - fiber is nice for ease of cabling and airflow, but not performance or cost when below a few meters.