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TLDR: This article reviews the author’s learnings on AI alignment over the past year, covering topics such as Shard Theory, “Do What I Mean,” interpretability, takeoff speeds, self-concept, social influences, and trends in capabilities. The author is cautiously optimistic but uncomfortable with the pace of AGI development.
Arguments:
1. Shard Theory: Humans have context-sensitive heuristics rather than utility functions, which could apply to AIs as well. Terminal values seem elusive and confusing.
2. “Do What I Mean”: GPT-3 gives hope for AIs to understand human values, but making them obey specific commands remains difficult.
3. Interpretability: More progress is being made than expected, with potential transparent neural nets generating expert consensus on AI safety.
4. Takeoff speeds: Evidence against “foom” suggests that intelligence is compute-intensive and AI self-improvement slows down as it reaches human levels.
5. Self-concept: AGIs may develop self-concepts, but designing agents without self-concepts may be possible and valuable.
6. Social influences: Leading AI labs don’t seem to be in an arms race, but geopolitical tensions might cause a race between the West and China for AGI development.
7. Trends in capabilities: Publicly known AI replication of human cognition is increasing, but advances are becoming less quantifiable and more focused on breadth.
Takeaways:
1. Abandoning utility functions in favor of context-sensitive heuristics could lead to better AI alignment.
2. Transparency in neural nets could be essential for determining AI safety.
3. Addressing self-concept development in AGIs could be pivotal.
Strengths:
1. The article provides good coverage of various AI alignment topics, with clear examples.
2. It acknowledges uncertainties and complexities in the AI alignment domain.
Weaknesses:
1. The article might not give enough weight to concerns about an AGI’s ability to outsmart human-designed safety measures.
2. It does not deeply explore the ethical implications of AI alignment progress.
Interactions:
1. Shard theory might be related to the orthogonality thesis or other AI alignment theories.
2. Concepts discussed here could inform ongoing debates about AI safety, especially the roles of interpretability and self-awareness.
Factual mistakes: None detected.
Missing arguments:
1. The article could explore more on the potential downsides of AGI development not leading to existential risks but causing massive societal disruptions.
2. The author might have considered discussing AI alignment techniques’ robustness in various situations or how transferable they are across different AI systems.
It’s simply a summary of summaries when the context length is too long.
This summary is likely especially bad because of not using the images and the fact that the post is not about a single topic.