I was hesitant about this article being interesting, or a good use of my limited time, but it turns out it was well written and held an interesting insight!
I find it fascinating that, even aware of the importance of the phrase, I tend to gloss over it as one conceptual unit and hardly even register its existence, like the
I always loved this question when I played the 'Why' game with my kids: They ask why, and I'd ELI5. Then they'd ask why, and the process continued until I could excitedly say "We don't know for sure!! We think it might be XYZ, but we're still exploring that frontier."
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I hear ya! One of my hobbies is to be a somewhat known stage & exotic dancer / dance instructor in VR using 5-11pt tracking (depending on my mood and production quality). The number of "features" that get in the way, and lack of representation for VR dancers and performers has been frustrating, especially as the world moves more and more towards 3-point robot avatars.
Actually had a chance to provide my perspective to a FAANG Research Group, but I was laid off (and they were disbanded).
I just don't see how the genie is put back in the bottle. Optimizations and new techniques are coming in at a breakneck pace, allowing for models that can run on consumer hardware.
I think it could be done. Or rather, instead of putting the genie back in the bottle, we could slow it down enough that we figure out how to ask it for wishes in a way that avoids all the monkey-paw's scenarios.
Dropping the metaphor, running today's models isn't dangerous. We could criminalize developing stronger ones, and make a "Manhattan project" for AI aimed at figuring out how to not ruin the world with it. I think a big problem is what you point out -- once it's out, it's hard to prevent misuse. One bad AGI could end up making a virus that does massive damage to humanity. We might end up deciding that this tech is just too dangerous to be allowed to happen at all, at least until after humanity manages to digitize all our brains or something. But it's better to try to slow down as much as we can, for as long as we can, than to give up right from the get-go and wing it.
Honestly, if it turns out that China ends up developing unsafe AI before we develop safe AI, I doubt it would have turned out much better for the average American if America were the ones to develop unsafe AI first. And if they cut corners and still manage to make safe AI and take over the world, that still sounds a heck of a lot better than anyone making unsafe AI.
I suppose the argument would be that the key search space is reduced. Statistically speaking, you know the weights of certain binary pairs if the image is not evenly distributed. But I'm guessing that it'd only drop the average search space by... two or three powers of two for most keys?
Again: the randomart image is based on a hash of the public key. If you want to know what that key is, all you have to do is ask the server. You don't need to launch a sophisticated, expensive cryptographic attack to obtain it.
The metric of "hauling 40 Tesla Model S vehicles up every sixty minutes." is a strange one. A '93 Honda Accord would be divisible to the minute (60/hr). Or even 52lbs/second... Though I suppose those don't sound as flashy.
Alternatively, I'd be curious how many tesla batteries in raw materials that equated to per hour.
I find it fascinating that, even aware of the importance of the phrase, I tend to gloss over it as one conceptual unit and hardly even register its existence, like the
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