Xe Iaso's chimed in on the GPT-5 fallout, giving her thoughts on chatbots' use as assistants/therapists.
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
"wRiTiNg WiTh LlM iS nOt A sHaMe" https://awful.systems/post/5390645
not even hn is having it lmoa
also claims that llms are good for proofreading, clearly didn't do that
Apparently Eliezer is actually against throwing around P(doom) numbers: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mBaixwf4k8jk7fG4/yudkowsky-on-don-t-use-p-doom ?
The objections to using P(doom) are relatively reasonable by lesswrong standards... but this is in fact once again all Eliezer's fault. He started a community centered around 1) putting overconfident probability "estimates" on subjective uncertain things 2) need to make a friendly AI-God, he really shouldn't be surprised that people combine the two. Also, he has regularly expressed his certainty that we are all going to die to Skynet in terms of ridiculously overconfident probabilities, he shouldn't be surprised that other people followed suit.
There's a part where they quote someone saying "I am not particularly confident [in my p(doom)]" and I'm still remembering getting talked down to about how Actually all subjective uncertainty can be represented as probabilities because Bayesianism and you wouldn't happen to be one of those stupid frequentists right?
Not a sneer in the classical sense. It seems that Extropic AI is about to finally ship something.
There is still no actual data about the hardware on their website...
New article on AI scraping just hit The Register, with some choice quotes from Anubis dev Xe Iaso. Xe herself has given some additional thoughts.