My AI is regularly solving master's thesis level, and sometimes Ph.D thesis level problems for the purpose of, e.g. routine tasks like filling out random paperwork.
It's been very odd.
I'd only assume Nadella has access to more advanced models than I do, just as much as I have more advanced models than my relatives.
I would expect people selling AI to like that term for marketing reasons, completely independent of their opinion of the person who provided a crystallization point to organize the terminology change around.
On one hand I don’t mind the government keeping corporations in check. On the other, the government doing business via random threats and bullying seems worse than corporations.
600M is not that much actually, just three proper celebrity houses in LA or sth… he’s still poor-man to run a trillion dollar company. SteveB had better deal out that responsibility.
Super Intelligence is a term of art that has been around for a few decades now. Nick Bostrom gave a the canonical definition for it almost 30 years ago. Super Intelligence is more relevant to the concerns articulated in this article than AI which is rather broad in its purview. Maybe this is Trump stuff? I don't know. If it were something stupid like Freedom Intelligence then I'd be pretty annoyed, but there is a lot of plausible deniability that Super Intelligence is just a better term for what we're all freaking out about. A world where GPT 4 hits scaling limits and it costs $500 a month to run is definitely AI but none of the catastrophes emerge at that level of intelligence. That would actually be a pretty sweet world. But now we get to have our whole civilization ground up into dust by super intelligence instead.
True, but for Bostrom Superintelligence was a capability level for AI and not a replacement for the accepted scientific term. Narrow -> General -> Super.
To me, this is a confirmation of how much of a free man I am and how unfree these tech billionaires and CEOs are. Because I can choose to say AI, whereas they seemingly cannot.
That's the thing though, he has $600M dollars worth of reasons to bend.
People think that money makes you strong, maybe it does but only upto like a couple million dollars if at all, well whatever amount will give you a lifetime of comfortable life, after that it's all about how to preserve or make more money.
The more you have the more reason you have to do the wrong thing.
It is actually a very common part of the fascist playbook to demand ridiculous things as proof of loyalty and then declare those not following the enemy. Absolute loyalty is required. For unprincipled people like Nadella and the rest of tech leadership, it is a small price to pay to not get hit with economic sanctions in retaliation.
100%. All this talk but zero action, feels more like a COA than a warning. Not sure why very little is being done and those building it are also the ones being asked to make it safe. Makes zero sense
Yeah, after having a meeting at the Oval office, it's for sure everyone got taught by our bro "Dario" regarding containing things as the Chinese are catching up.
Give this a break...
I don't get why using “super intelligence” is an issue here. It seems the US admin sort of politicized this and now US companies have their own reasons for selecting terms that may not make sense to people who aren't making the same decisions.
Everything else seems reasonable? Assume the worst and put the controls in place to handle that scenario? Isn't this how we approach security normally?
NOTE: NOT a security expert, so I may be talking out of my...
Because it's creepy and Orwellian, not to mention hypocritical (MAGA is supposed to hate thought policing). Do you like people telling you what words you can and cannot use?
Should I then assume that Copilot is "compromised", and given that they've shoehorned it into all Microsoft products, then, by extension, that means all Microsoft products are compromised?
Rich people in general have this belief, that they somehow got there by objective means and via their superior intellect. I just watched an interview the other day that someone posted where Sam Altman described using a notebook (yes literally pencil and paper) but was describing it as if he had discovered fire. These people are literally blinded by their money.
Here's a video of Nadella speaking about AI a year ago.
I couldn't for the life of me understand him, it sounded like when someone I know did cocaine and spent like 8 hours per day with ChatGPT and developed their own internal vocabulary, right around peak AI psychosis era with 4o as well.
One thing you can hear is that he was super excited about AI, which is very obvious by how Copilot was slapped everywhere. And now that the market is expressing their backlash about AI they are just hopping on the bandwagon.
But I remember, and I think the MSFT customers will remember how AI was slapped into everything INCLUDING NOTEPAD.EXE
This just feels like more of the war on local models. I expect to see a lot more FUD about this as hyperscalers desperately try to push the message that local models are incapable to keep people on the teat.
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and "least privilege": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/se...
What's the deal with these clowns? Nadella's estimated net worth is like $600M. Is that still not enough for him to buy himself a spine?
My AI is regularly solving master's thesis level, and sometimes Ph.D thesis level problems for the purpose of, e.g. routine tasks like filling out random paperwork.
It's been very odd.
I'd only assume Nadella has access to more advanced models than I do, just as much as I have more advanced models than my relatives.
No rich man or woman is a friend of society.
That is why governments fear revolt from the poor. They have nothing more to lose.
Bend the knee or Trump will destroy your company. And every Republican in Congress is cool with that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence
Or any of the literature on the subject from the past 30 years: From here
[1] https://nickbostrom.com/papers/how-long-before-superintellig...
to more recently:
[2] https://openai.com/index/governance-of-superintelligence/
For context, Nick Bostrom, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever are big names in AI. There is a reason they were using this term back in 2023.
People think that money makes you strong, maybe it does but only upto like a couple million dollars if at all, well whatever amount will give you a lifetime of comfortable life, after that it's all about how to preserve or make more money.
The more you have the more reason you have to do the wrong thing.
the second he tries to cash out even a fraction of that, it'll start becoming worth less and less
Anyone who doesnt see the calculus is a mental gymnast.
Seems to be the most reliable description of AI projects thus far.
Everything else seems reasonable? Assume the worst and put the controls in place to handle that scenario? Isn't this how we approach security normally?
NOTE: NOT a security expert, so I may be talking out of my...
America is lost.
If you blindly assume it works and it doesn't, that's a problem.
If your process can handle it not working, it's much less of a problem.
How about yanking the cords, or maybe a big red “shutdown” button
I couldn't for the life of me understand him, it sounded like when someone I know did cocaine and spent like 8 hours per day with ChatGPT and developed their own internal vocabulary, right around peak AI psychosis era with 4o as well.
One thing you can hear is that he was super excited about AI, which is very obvious by how Copilot was slapped everywhere. And now that the market is expressing their backlash about AI they are just hopping on the bandwagon.
But I remember, and I think the MSFT customers will remember how AI was slapped into everything INCLUDING NOTEPAD.EXE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44004821
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKkrrL3j-H0