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Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI

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The Dangers of Training Humans to Auto Complete

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The rewiring of their brain has somehow instilled knowledge, but that's very different from how you would say normally teach a student. What's weird is that now you give them a new math test and they get an 80%. They do better than the 50% that they did even though they haven't seen these answers before. It can do so much more than just auto completing. In fact, there was a recent thing where I think it was Microsoft who was hooking some of their large language models up to robots and trying to get them to direct robots.

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