In San Francisco, some people wonder when A.I. will kill us all

  • Underlying all the recent hype about AI, industry participants are engaging in furious debates about how to prepare for an AI that’s so powerful it can take control of itself.
  • This idea of artificial general intelligence, or AGI, isn’t just dorm-room talk: Big name technologists like Sam Altman and Marc Andreessen talk about it, using “in” terms like “misalignment” and “the paperclip maximization problem.”
  • In a San Francisco pop-up museum devoted to the topic called the Misalignment Museum, a sign reads, “Sorry for killing most of humanity.”
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Privacy Violations Shutdown OpenAI ChatGPT and Beg Investigation

File this under ClosedAI.

ChatGPT for a long time on March 20th posted a giant orange warning on top of their interface that they’re unable to load chat history.

After a while it switched to this more subtle one, still disappointing

… their status page has been intentionally vague about privacy violations that caused the history feature to be immediately pulled.

… All that being said, they’re not being very open about the fact that chat users were seeing other users’ chat history. This level of privacy nightmare is kind of a VERY BIG DEAL. Read More

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OpenAI says 80% of workers could see their jobs impacted by AI. These are the jobs most affected

OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT, has crunched the numbers on different jobs’ exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) – and those numbers are eye-opening.

Using its latest machine learning language model (LLM), the recently released GPT-4, as well as human expertise, researchers investigated the potential implications of language models on occupations within the US job market.

While the researchers stress the paper is not a prediction, they found around 80 per cent of the US workforce could have at least 10 per cent of their work tasks affected by GPTs, or Generative Pre-trained Transformers. Read More

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