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The Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning + A.I.’s Existential Risks
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“We’ll find out”: The AI engineers don’t really understand what they’re building
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Folks working on large language models don't know what they're building. They can't explain how it works or what capabilities it will have. This is unlike traditional engineering and more like breeding or natural selection. It's scary because it's like inventing a novel virus or Frankenstein inventing the monster. The speaker predicts entering the obsolescence regime by 2038 if nothing changes.
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