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Prof. Daniel Dennett - Could AI Counterfeit People Destroy Civilization? (SPECIAL EDITION)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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The Importance of Cherry Picking Processes in Decision-Making

Professor Dennett said that cherry picking or selecting the best results is a crucial aspect of decision-making, creativity, and invention. With GPT, he says cherry picking occurs during the training process in the fine-tuning stages. He concluded that creating conscious autonomous AI might be dangerous and could conflict with human interests. MLST: Do you remember DeepMind's A star search over prompt trajectories using the language model itself as a value function? We're increasingly seeing models trained on trajectories of reasoning paths as a first class citizen rather than actual answers.

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