This might be a career ending post, such as it is. I’m just done with it all. Not what Artificial Intelligence is meant to represent, but with the people that claim to represent it. Yann “It’s the media that called my DL work AI 10 years ago, but now I’m…

Breaking into the black box, or trying to break out of it? This post is based on my thoughts after reading thru a 2022 AGI Safety Fundamentals alignment curriculum (here). Steady-on Are issues of safety really just issues of current trends in Machine Learning? If an understanding of ML terms is…

I’d like to tell you a story of high adventure… Actually, I’d like to play a game of high adventure where you just need to stay on-script most of the time, because the goal is to capture the thought process that goes into creating a real-time generated narrative fiction for…

Future of Life Institute recently uploaded a second video featuring their slaughterbots, and I’d like to start by emphasizing that these are their own creation. While the first video was more of a “it could happen” warning, the second video was just a gore fest. However, it wasn’t until they…

This Made Tesla Cry YouTube recommended a video from a channel I intentionally don’t follow, but I was curious enough about the claim being made in the title to give it a look. What follows is a collection of the comments I left at different points in the video. There…

Bite My Shiny Metal Ass Have you ever seen a link to an article, and just knew it was going to give you an ulcer reading it? Yes, I know, why would you read it knowing it was going to bother you. …

I just came across a tweet from The Chapman Brain Institute, and a still active survey related to the nature of consciousness (original date of tweet was May 12th). The first page of statements seemed interesting enough, so I decided to write-out the thinking behind all of my answers. …

There are a lot of people thinking about AI Safety, which is fine, but just like the AI Ethics movement, there seems to be a disconnect between “make it safe” and what that actually means in terms of real-world design. …

This post is a collection of thoughts I had while listening to the Brain Inspired podcast episode 98, with Brian Christian, talking about the alignment problem. There are no specific timestamps for each section, nor did I try to connect all of my thoughts into a single exposition. For every…