Daily Archives: April 11, 2023
Agentized LLMs will change the alignment landscape
Epistemic status: head spinning, suddenly unsure of everything in alignment. And unsure of these predictions.
I’m following the suggestions in 10 reasons why lists of 10 reasons might be a winning strategy in order to get this out quickly (reason 10 will blow your mind!). I’m hoping to prompt some discussion, rather than try to do the definitive writeup on this topic when this technique was introduced so recently. Read More
‘I’m terrified’: what does AI Tom Brady mean for the future of media?
The hosts of the Dudesy podcast were shocked when their robot companion created an hour-long standup special
Have you heard the one about the American football player who tries standup comedy?
After Tom Brady’s deadpan appearance in the February film 80 for Brady, rumors swirled that the NFL legend might try standup. His recent divorce, second pro football retirement and forthcoming commitment to a televised comedy roast made the prospect seem believable enough.
Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen, co-hosts of the popular Dudesy podcast, had similar reactions to those of many others. “He really has lost his mind,” said Sasso. “I thought, ‘All right, this is a midlife crisis.’” Read More
LLMs and Phishing
Here’s an experiment being run by undergraduate computer science students everywhere: Ask ChatGPT to generate phishing emails, and test whether these are better at persuading victims to respond or click on the link than the usual spam. It’s an interesting experiment, and the results are likely to vary wildly based on the details of the experiment.
But while it’s an easy experiment to run, it misses the real risk of large language models (LLMs) writing scam emails. Today’s human-run scams aren’t limited by the number of people who respond to the initial email contact. They’re limited by the labor-intensive process of persuading those people to send the scammer money. LLMs are about to change that. Read More
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