I mean: one topic of discussion is the alignment problem. I work on the technical alignment problem for certain non-LLM AI architectures. I find that LLM alignment (and control etc.) literature is mostly not applicable to my worldview. (I try to skim it just enough to know what I don’t know.) And we can chat about what are the important alignment-relevant disanalogies that I see between LLMs and these other kinds of AIs.
OR, a different topic of discussion is how soon ASI will arrive. Again, I have different expectations, and we can talk about the timelines-relevant disanalogies that I see between LLMs and these other kinds of AIs.
Or, yet another topic is whether ASI likely to be invented at Anthropic, OpenAI, etc., versus some different outfit. Or, yet another topic is how much compute it will require. Or how suddenly it will emerge. Etc. These are all different discussions. :)
Cool. Yeah I had just re-read AI doom from an LLM-plateau-ist perspective and still was a bit confused.
Is the part that the model you’re starting with is an LLM, as opposed to some different RL base architecture, particularly loadbearing?
And yeah, seems fine to state the opinion without defending it. I just wanted more clarity on which opinion you weren’t defending :P
Loadbearing on what?
I mean: one topic of discussion is the alignment problem. I work on the technical alignment problem for certain non-LLM AI architectures. I find that LLM alignment (and control etc.) literature is mostly not applicable to my worldview. (I try to skim it just enough to know what I don’t know.) And we can chat about what are the important alignment-relevant disanalogies that I see between LLMs and these other kinds of AIs.
OR, a different topic of discussion is how soon ASI will arrive. Again, I have different expectations, and we can talk about the timelines-relevant disanalogies that I see between LLMs and these other kinds of AIs.
Or, yet another topic is whether ASI likely to be invented at Anthropic, OpenAI, etc., versus some different outfit. Or, yet another topic is how much compute it will require. Or how suddenly it will emerge. Etc. These are all different discussions. :)
Okay yeah fair enough.