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Dwarkesh Patel: belief

6 Apr 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality

“I think that I was not convinced from the arguments that we could not have a system of sort of checks on this the same way you have checks on smart humans that it would try to deceive us to achieve its aims.”

— Dwarkesh Patel

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Dwarkesh Patel
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belief
Recorded
6 Apr 2023
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Dwarkesh Podcast

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…I feel like we bit off a whole chunk of chimp to human in GPT 3.5 to GPT-4, but go on. Regardless then this leads to human level intelligence for some interval. I think that I was not convinced from the arguments that we could not have a system of sort of checks on this the same way you have checks on smart humans that it would try to deceive us to achieve its aims. Any more than smart humans are in positions of power. Try to do the same thing. For a year. What are you going to do with that year before the next generation of systems come out that are not held in check by humans because they are not roughly in the same power intelligence range as humans? Maybe you can get a year like that. Maybe that actually happens. What are you going to do with that year that prevents you from dying the year after?…

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