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AI doomers are all trying to find the guy building the AI doom machines (www.salon.com)
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[–] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

wasnt this around the time he said we need an institute to watch for sudden drops in the loss function to prevent foom?

[–] scruiser@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

Broadly? There was a gradual transition where Eliezer started paying attention to deep neural network approaches and commenting on them, as opposed to dismissing the entire DNN paradigm? The watch the loss function and similar gaffes were towards the middle of this period. The AI dungeon panic/hype marks the beginning, iirc?