Nice to see such a lucid definition from Steven Pinker. Background: He was the “actually, progress is real and good” guy, who then fell into the trap of extrapolating his performance into the domain of AI and publicly committing to “progress in AGI is going to go fine too” despite not seeming to have really thought about it.
But there seems to be a confabulation there anyway:
“alignment” is a synonym for AI safety (bias, deepfakes, etc.), which led to the infamous firing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by his board.
I haven’t dug into this question myself, but my most credible friends disagree with that:
Nice to see such a lucid definition from Steven Pinker. Background: He was the “actually, progress is real and good” guy, who then fell into the trap of extrapolating his performance into the domain of AI and publicly committing to “progress in AGI is going to go fine too” despite not seeming to have really thought about it.
But there seems to be a confabulation there anyway:
I haven’t dug into this question myself, but my most credible friends disagree with that: