My guess is AlphaGo—I once heard someone who worked at MIRI say that they watched the event and Eliezer was surprised by it.
Yes, I seem to remember him writing about it at the time, too. Not big posts, more public comments and short posts, not sure exactly where.
The invention of transformers circa 2017 would be the next time I remember a similar shift.
In retrospect Alpha0 was really the wake up call for me, not because it was so strong at chess but because it looked so human playing chess.
My guess is AlphaGo—I once heard someone who worked at MIRI say that they watched the event and Eliezer was surprised by it.
Yes, I seem to remember him writing about it at the time, too. Not big posts, more public comments and short posts, not sure exactly where.
The invention of transformers circa 2017 would be the next time I remember a similar shift.
In retrospect Alpha0 was really the wake up call for me, not because it was so strong at chess but because it looked so human playing chess.