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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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I'm sure there are some AI peeps here. Neural networks scale with size because the number of combinations of parameter values that work for a given task scales exponentially (or, even better, factorially if that's a word???) with the network size. How can such a network be properly aligned when even humans, the most advanced natural neural nets, are not aligned? What can we realistically hope for?

Here's what I mean by alignment:

  • Ability to specify a loss function that humanity wants
  • Some strict or statistical guarantees on the deviation from that loss function as well as potentially unaccounted side effects
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[โ€“] preasket@lemy.lol 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mmmm, agents training each other. Very Deepmind of you to mention that.

[โ€“] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you were doing your job and reading some web site, and you happened to notice that there were posts on that site containing child porn, wouldn't you hit the "report" button too?