Gary Marcus

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5/21/2025, 1:25:34 PM
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David Manheim
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@daganshani1 @GaryMarcus At some point I should talk to Gary about why I think that the types of catastrophe he's concerned about have a very high probability of leading to extinction.

In short, I don't think humanity needs to face malicious superhuman AI to end up in a forced mate that gets played out.
David Manheim
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@daganshani1 @GaryMarcus It doesn't take AGI for humanity to screw this up, given how poorly we're doing.

As I told Eliezer several years ago, I agree that we don't know how to survive ASI - but wouldn't it be even more embarrassing for humanity to manage to kill ourselves off before then?
Dagan Shani
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@GaryMarcus Before, whenever I needed to ease my anxiety about the catastrophic risk of AI, I would come to your account to see you debunk claims of AGI approaching, I guess these days are over now馃ゲ
Gary Marcus
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ChatGPT is not AGI but it was a dress rehearsal - to see if we would be able to stop a runaway train if it were to arrive.

Humanity failed that dress rehearsal.

We didn鈥檛 stop the train. We gave more money and power to the train manufacturers, and told them, don鈥檛 worry about
David Krueger
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By the time you want to pause AI, it will be too late.

Racing until we can smell superintelligence then pausing is NOT A REALISTIC PROPOSAL, it is a FANTASY.

I don't understand why people don't get it.
People in AI safety especially.
Quick way to lose a lot of my respect.

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