The Importance of Proof in the Future of GPT4

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I agree with you that a lot of people on the street, like if you just talk to lay people, they are concerned about it and they do find it freaky. But I also don't think the average lay person like actually thinks it's going to kill us all, especially not anytime soon. The specific case is that GPT4 is really, really fucking smart. And it's the first system like dumbest system we build with some of the dumbest methods. We're still scaling these systems up. They're becoming rapidly, much, much better.

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Does AI pose a near-term existential risk? Why might existential risks from AI manifest sooner rather than later? Can't we just turn off any AI that gets out of control? Exactly how much do we understand about what's going on inside neural networks? What is AutoGPT? How feasible is it to build an AI system that's exactly as intelligent as a human but no smarter? What is the "CoEm" AI safety proposal? What steps can the average person take to help mitigate risks from AI?

Connor Leahy is CEO and co-founder of Conjecture, an AI alignment company focused on making AI systems boundable and corrigible. Connor founded and led EleutherAI, the largest online community dedicated to LLMs, which acted as a gateway for people interested in ML to upskill and learn about alignment. With capabilities increasing at breakneck speed, and our ability to control AI systems lagging far behind, Connor moved on from the volunteer, open-source Eleuther model to a full-time, closed-source model working to solve alignment via Conjecture.

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