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Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI

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Gradient Decadence: The Importance of Consciousness

The world isn't ending as we speak. We're allowed to go on talking at least. So, why would you ever think that this, it's interesting how difficult the adjectives announce are for this, right? And by the way, just for my and our listeners' knowledge, what is gradient descent? Yeah. The thing gets better and better at predicting what the next word will be. But I'm very open to the possibility that I'm naive or incapable of understanding it.

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