I won’t write a detailed object-level response to this for now, since we’re probably going to publish a lot about it soon. I’ll just say that my/our experience with the usefulness of GPT has been very different than yours -
I have used ChatGPT to aid some of my writing and plan to use it more — but it’s to the same extent that we use Google/Wikipedia/Word processors to do research in general.
I’ve used GPT-3 extensively, and for me it has been transformative. To the extent that my work has been helpful to you, you’re indebted to GPT-3 as well, because “janus” is a cyborg whose ideas crystalized out of hundreds of hours of cybernetic scrying. But then, I used GPT in fairly unusual/custom ways—high-bandwidth human-in-the-loop workflows iterating deep simulations—and it took me months to learn to drive and build maps to the fruitful parts of latent space, so I don’t expect others to reap the same benefits out of the box, unless the “box” has been optimized to be useful in this dimension (chatGPT is optimized in a very different dimension).
We also used GPT to summarize seminar meeting and produce posts from the summaries, such as [Simulators seminar sequence] #2 Semiotic physics, where it came up with some of the propositions and proof sketches.
I don’t expect AI assistance to be load bearing enough for alignment in general to merit special distinction.
I do. I expect AI to be superhuman at a lot of things quite soon.
It’s like this: magic exists now. The amount of magic in the world is increasing, allowing for increasingly powerful spells and artifacts, such as CLONE MIND. This is concerning for obvious reasons. One would hope that the protagonists, whose goal it is to steer this autocatalyzing explosion of psychic energy through the needle of an eye to utopia, will become competent at magic.
I won’t write a detailed object-level response to this for now, since we’re probably going to publish a lot about it soon. I’ll just say that my/our experience with the usefulness of GPT has been very different than yours -
I’ve used GPT-3 extensively, and for me it has been transformative. To the extent that my work has been helpful to you, you’re indebted to GPT-3 as well, because “janus” is a cyborg whose ideas crystalized out of hundreds of hours of cybernetic scrying. But then, I used GPT in fairly unusual/custom ways—high-bandwidth human-in-the-loop workflows iterating deep simulations—and it took me months to learn to drive and build maps to the fruitful parts of latent space, so I don’t expect others to reap the same benefits out of the box, unless the “box” has been optimized to be useful in this dimension (chatGPT is optimized in a very different dimension).
We also used GPT to summarize seminar meeting and produce posts from the summaries, such as [Simulators seminar sequence] #2 Semiotic physics, where it came up with some of the propositions and proof sketches.
I do. I expect AI to be superhuman at a lot of things quite soon.
It’s like this: magic exists now. The amount of magic in the world is increasing, allowing for increasingly powerful spells and artifacts, such as
CLONE MIND
. This is concerning for obvious reasons. One would hope that the protagonists, whose goal it is to steer this autocatalyzing explosion of psychic energy through the needle of an eye to utopia, will become competent at magic.