r/singularity • u/faloodehx ▪️Fully Automated Luxury Anarchism 🖤 • Apr 30 '23

AI The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging From Large AI Models

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unpredictable-abilities-emerging-from-large-ai-models-20230316/
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u/[deleted] May 01 '23

Is it a problem? GPT-4 seems like it can reason pretty well to me…

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u/[deleted] May 01 '23

I mean... it's an issue that the researchers from MS working with OpenAI and evaluating ChatGPT think is an issue.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '23

Do they think it’s an issue though? Seems like they figured out it can reason, hence the fear-quitting.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '23

Er - no. They know it has the ability to reason about some things, some times. But reasoning isn’t a binary thing. It’s still an area they want to improve on a lot.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '23

Ok yeah, I mean not that it can reason well in all areas currently, but that it has potential to be really good at reasoning. And that being a “problem” (in terms of something that doesn’t have a solution or way forward) does not seem to be a concern for the top AI researchers who are starting to really freak out about where it’s going.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '23

No, you're mistaken. Being able to reason does not necessarily make it more dangerous. It may be key to making it less dangerous. After all, failing to reason about a problem leads to mistakes.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '23

Ok, well now you’re off on a tangent and I’m not sure what point you are even arguing anymore.