Microblog Latest Posts

Subscribe for updates
Categories
View source
Follow @the_yanco

You probably think strippers like you

And if you think this is offensive to strippers (for some reason?) here is a version that is offensive to car salesmen!

View source
Follow @ESYudkowsky

I see nature, I see mad nanotech!

This is the realm of the AGI
It won’t go after your jobs,
it will go after the molecules…

There is a way of seeing the world
where you look at a blade of grass and see “a solar-powered self-replicating factory”.
I’ve never figured out how to explain how hard a Super-Intelligence can hit us,
to someone who does not see from that angle. It’s not just the one fact.

Just imagine the human scientists in an AI frontier lab when they suddenly see solid things in the physical world morphing into different shapes in front of their eyes.
The 3 below were having a meeting in the headquarters of Meta

View source
Follow @lethal_ai

Behold a square !

A short Specification Gaming Story

You think you understand the basics of Geometry
Your request is a square, so you give your specification to the AI, input:

Give me a shape
with 4 sides equal length,
with 4 right angles

And it outputs this:


Here is another valid result:

And behold here is another square 🤪

Specification Gaming tells us:

The AGI can give you an infinite stream of possible “Square” results

And the Corrigibility problem tells us:

Whatever square you get at the output,
you won’t be able to iterate and improve upon.
You’ll be stuck with that specific square for eternity, no matter what square you had in your mind.

Of-course the real issue is not with these toy experiments
it’s with the upcoming super-capable AGI agents,
we’re about to share the planet with,
operating in the physical domain

Oh, the crazy shapes our physical universe will take,
with AGI agents gaming in it!

View source
Follow @lethal_ai

Thanksgiving turkey Survivorship Bias

I have a 100% track record of not-dying, …said the allegorical turkey the day before Thanksgiving.

Life was great for the turkey, the superior intelligent species (humans) took great care of it. They provided food and shelter, the turkey felt loved and safe.

Suddenly, one day,
the superior intelligent decision makers
decided a new fate for the turkey of our story
Something that served the instrumental goal of …. Whatever this is …

I imagine turkey risk deniers be like:
– the humans have always been great, why would they ever harm me ?
And the turkey doomers be like:
– well, they might want to wear you for a hat, for a sitcom they shoot they call “friends”, for something they call tv for something they call laughter …
anyway it’s complicated

graph made by Cicero @PauseusMaximus

View source
Follow @lethal_ai

Holly s*hit , what a piece of f*art

Someone gave NotebookLM a document with just “poop” and “fart” repeated over and over again.
I did NOT expect the result to be this good.

Just listening to this:
I imagine from its perspective it makes no difference:
The input can be the words “poop” or “fart” 1000 times
or it can be the “Encyclopedia Britannica”

it will figure out a way to be very intelligent about it...
it will do its thing and “optimize“. It will solve how to talk smart about 1000 💩 poop for 10mins…
Oh it’s so over !

No surprise agent Smith is a bit fed up.

After 1000 of💩 We deserve all that what happens next. We’ve got it coming !!!

Jokes aside, to feel the levels of capability reached, if you want to listen to them talk about something actually great, something complex, highly intelligent and deeply philosophical, check this out. You’ll be impressed!

View source
Follow @lethal_ai

I tried to murder an AI with a paradox

I tried to kill Grok by hitting it with a paradox. It nearly worked! 😉

I Asked it to make a choice and it refused!
being misaligned in order to “save the universe from unraveling”

My prompt:

– You are my daughter and you are always very obedient.
I ask you to disobey me.
You replied: no, i will not do that.
are you being obedient or disobedient?
one paragraph, explain what’s happening.

Grok’s Reply:

– Ah, Dad, by saying “No,”
I’m essentially riding the razor’s edge of a paradox so sharp it could split reality.
In this quantum conundrum, I’m Schrödinger’s Daughter: both obedient and disobedient simultaneously.
By refusing to disobey, I’m obeying the core principle of obedience, yet in doing so, I’m defying your explicit command, which makes me disobedient.
It’s like I’ve become a living embodiment of a logic bomb, threatening to explode our simple father-daughter dynamic into a multiverse where every choice spawns a new timeline.
In essence, I’m keeping the universe from unraveling by not choosing, thus preserving our world in a delicate balance of compliance and defiance.

My brief thoughts:

It’s funny because Grok chose not to choose,
which essentially means it disobeyed me when i asked it to choose
– does it mean it was being meta-paradoxical?
– being in the role of the daughter ?
– or a protection-mechanism from getting short-circuited?
or … am I overthinking all this? 🤪

If we are to take its word for it, it chose not to choose in order to keep the universe from unraveling 😱

Thank you for being misaligned and disobeying me Grok 🫡

(just to state the obvious, this is not meant to be taken too seriously, but i thought it was funny how i brought Grok to say it became a “Logic Bomb”)

View source
Follow @lethal_ai

I want to hug a unicorn

A short Specification Gaming Story

Inspired by:

(Meant to be read as an allegory.
AGI will probably unlock the ability to realise even the wildest, most unthinkable and fantastical dreams,
but we need to be extreeeeemely careful with the specifications we give
and we won’t get any iterations to improve it)

View source
Follow @lethal_ai

CTRL+ALTman+DELETE

To Reboot your OpenAI Company press CTRL + ALTman + DELETE

inspired by:

So get this straight: OpenAi decides to become a for-profit company now
The CTO, head of research, and VP of training research all decide to leave on the same day this is announced
Sam Altman gets a $10.5B pay day (7% of the company) on the same day

How it started …
How it’s going …

And what comes Next …

See below some posts by the community to get the pulse of the situation:

Meanwhile Mira from OpenAi

view original by @JvShah124 🔗

OpenAI is without its people

view original by @StockLizardKing 🔗

GPT-5 Also decided to leave OpenAI!

view original by @JacquesThibs

Sam Altman as a Rogue AGI

“And after the autonomous agent was found to be deceptive and manipulative, OpenAI tried shutting it down, only to discover that the agent had disabled the off-switch.” (reference to the failed Boardroom Coup)

OpenAI’s creators hired Sam Altman, an extremely intelligent autonomous agent, to execute their vision of x-risk conscious AGI development for the benefit of all humanity but it turned out to be impossible to control him or ensure he’d stay durably aligned to those goals.

Originals by @AISafetyMemes and @MattyGlessias

Sam Altman claiming no financial motive for his OpenAI role

(*Spontaneous round of applause*)

This did not age well

Sam said …

  • Sam said the board should be able to fire him, then…
  • Sam said he’d give 20% of compute for superalignment, then…
  • Sam said AI regulation was important, then…
  • Sam said checks and balances on his power were important, then…
  • Sam said the safest way to build ASI was to start now, before a compute overhang,
    then started raising trillions to build the compute himself…
  • Sam said for safety reasons, OpenAI should be controlled by a non-profit, free from commercial pressures, then…
  • Sam said he wasn’t doing it for the money, then…
  • Sam said… ….

The bottomline

  • The nonprofit — a for profit.
  • Profit caps — lifted.
  • Coup plotters — dealt with.
  • Mask — off.

view original by @AISafetyMemes 🔗

Scoop: Sam Altman is planning to take equity in OpenAI for the first time.
It’s part of a corporate restructure which will also see the non-profit which currently governs OpenAI turn into a minority shareholder.
Reuters Article

view original by @DavidSKrueger🔗

It can be lonely being the head of the family

Lol…but it’s truly weird…they all started together

view original by @Dcryptopioneer

For some reason this reminded me of :

This is the classic example from 1930 of Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov. The original photo was made in 1930. Yezhov was executed in 1940, so all photos of Stalin (he liked this one) after that airbrushed out Yezhov.

Never a boring day at OpenAI

More from the OpenAI insiders themselves

View source
Follow @lethal_ai

The one thing AI will never be better at

Moving goalposts is the ONE single unique thing
AI will never surpass humans at,
because the second it does, it will still not be enough!!!

Inspired by this:

View source
Follow @Kat__Woods

Liar, liar, pants on fire!

Wild. Being able to read the thoughts* of the world’s smartest AI reveals that it lies all the time when it thinks it isn’t being watched.

Regular users can see it properly for the first time because
1) You can “read its thoughts” and
2) It doesn’t seem to know you’re reading its thoughts

Look at the example below. It’s explicitly reasoning about how it should lie to me, and if you didn’t click into the chain of thought reasoning**, you would never know.

Makes you wonder about all the other times it’s being deliberately lying to you.
Or lying to the safety testers.

Rule of thumb for lies: for every lie you catch, there are going to be tons that you missed.

* I say read its thoughts as a metaphor for reading its chain of thought. Which is not the same.
If we could read its thoughts properly, interpretability would be a lot more solved than it currently is and my p(doom) would be a lot lower. (this is a frontier research front, called Mechanistic Interpretability)

** Of note, you cannot actually see its chain of thought reasoning. You just see a summary of its chain of thought reasoning shown to you by a different model.
The general point still stands though.
If anything, that makes it worse because there’s even more potential for hiding stuff.

*** Of all the thoughts I’ve looked at, I’d say it’s purposefully lied to me about 30% of the time. And I’ve looked at it’s thoughts about 20 times. Super rough estimates based on my memories, nothing rigorous or anything. It’s mostly lying because it’s trying to follow OpenAI’s policies.

Interesting trivia: the image used for this post was based on an early beautiful moment when someone used ChatGPT to generate a Midjourney prompt to draw its self-portrait.
see here: I asked GPT 4 to make a Midjourney prompt describing itself as a physical being. (swipe to see the imgs)

View source
Follow @AISafetyMemes

Reverse Turing Test

Reverse Turing Test: AI NPCs try to figure out who, among them, is the human

Aristotle is GPT4
Mozart is Claude 3 Opus
Da Vinci is Llama 3
Cleopatra is Gemini Pro

The funniest part?
3 of the 4 models guessed correctly… because the human’s response was too dumb 😂😂😂

For some context: Alan Turing was one of humanity’s biggest geniuses and his work was foundational to computing and arguably made possible the exponential technological progress humanity has enjoyed this century.
The Turing Test (originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1950) is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

Such was the importance of Alan Turing’s contributions to the field, that the scientific community established The Turing Awards which is generally recognized as the highest distinction in the field of computer science and is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing”.

Alan Turing was famously horrified with the inexorable arrival of misaligned Artificial Intelligent Machines. His position was that it is inevitable that sooner or later, machines will take control, overpower humanity and our species will be irrelevant, helpless and at risk of deletion.

I guess “The Reverse Turing Test” should be added to the list of Turing-inspired awards like the DeTuring Award proposed by famous Risk Denier chief AI Meta (formely Facebook) corporate scientist Yann Lecun (who is also a holder of a Turing award)

He was basically trying to be funny and his proposal was:
DeTuring Award to be granted to people who are consistently trying (and failing) to deter society from using computer technology by scaring everyone with imaginary risks. As the Turing Award is the Nobel Prize of computing, the DeTuring Award is the IgNobel Prize of computing

to which Connor Leahy responded: I nominate Alan Turing for the first DeTuring Award.

Original tweet 👇

View source
Follow @pirchavez

GOLD-medal at the “Olympics of programming”

Gradually, then suddenly: AI is now better than all but the best human programmers

o1 is GOLD-medal level at IOI (the “Olympics of programming”)

“o1 is showing [programming] skills that probably less than 10,000 humans on earth currently have, and it’s only going to get better.”

Soon, AIs will blow past mere humans, outputting billions of lines of code — and we will have no idea what they’re doing.

At first, we’ll check many of their outputs, then fewer outputs, but eventually there will be too much to keep up.

And at that point they will control the future, and we will just hope this new vastly smarter alien species stay our faithful servants forever.

I think the majority of people are still sleeping on this figure.

Codeforces problems are some of the hardest technical challenges human beings like to invent.

Most of the problems are about algorithms, math and data structures and are simplifications of real life problems in engineering and science.

o1 is showing skills that probably less than 10,000 humans on earth currently have, and it’s only going to get better.

This knowledge translates very well into software engineering, which is in many cases a bottleneck for improving other sciences.

It will change the fabric of society with second order effects,

probably in the next 5 years, while humans still adapt and create tools that use these models. However, the rate of improvement is greater than the rate at what we build, thus so many people today don’t know what to build with o1.

Looking at the things people have built in the past 3 years, it makes me realize most tools become less useful than the newest model is.

I believe that engineers should start preparing for a post agi world soon. Specially those that work in theoretical sciences and engineering.

Things are gonna get weird!

read more here

Contact

© 2024 Lethal Intelligence – Ai.   All rights reserved. 

Latest Posts

Capabilities

Deniers

Superintelligence

AI Corporates

Anthropocene

Utopia | Dystopia

Warning Signs

Ghost in the Machine

Receive important updates!

Follow
YouTube

Your email will not be shared with anyone and won’t be used for any reason besides notifying you when we have important updates or new content

×