Bleeding Edge Indeed

[Charles Albert]

The Basilisk?


love,

cfa

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023, 4:29 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://www.ft.com/content/03895dc4-a3b7-481e-95cc-336a524f2ac2
>
> *We must slow down the race to God-like AI. **I’ve invested in more than 50
> artificial intelligence start-ups. What I’ve seen worries me*
>
> The “Shoggoth” meme illustrates the unknown that lies behind the sanitised
> public face of AI. It depicts one of HP Lovecraft’s tentacled monsters with
> a friendly little smiley face tacked on. The mask — what the public
> interacts with when it interacts with, say, ChatGPT — appears “aligned”.
> But what lies behind it is still something we can’t fully comprehend.
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