Ditto. But I am taking my time. I am on the free tier; I cost him money. I'll move off eventually probably to Tutanota unless something better shows up
The bubble will burst. BUT ... the entire world will run on this new technology, nobody will imagine living without it, and multibillion dollar companies will profit and be created from it
what do you think an LLM is? once you've opened the weights, IMO it's pretty open. Once they open the training data, that's pretty damn open. What do you want a gitian reproducible build?
I am not a linguist but the deafening silence from Chomsky and his defenders really does demand being called out.
Syntactical models of language have been completely crushed by statistics-at-scale via neural nets. But linguists have not rejected the broken model.
The same thing happened with protein folding -- researchers who spent the last 25 years building complex quantum mechanical/electrostatic models of protein structure suddenly saw AlphaFold completely crush prior methods. The difference is, bioinformatics researchers have already done a complete about-face and are taking the new AI tools and running with them.
believing that a large language model has any kind of awareness or actual intelligence is absurd
I (as a person who works professionally in the area and tries to keep up with the current academic publications) happen to agree with you. But my credences are somewhat reduced after considering the points Hinton raises.
I think it is worth considering that there are a handful of academically active models of consciousness; some well-respected ones like the CTM are not at all inconsistent with Hinton's statements
Police unions hate legalization, it takes away one of their "most powerful tools" -- ie, ways to pull people over, search their persons, cars, and houses, take their assets, and have a made-for-TV press conference with a big pile of drugs, guns, and money
George W.Bush: "When I first met with Putin I saw he was wearing a cross [...] He started talking about his mother, the cross, and what it meant to him [...] I looked into his eyes and I saw a soul. I trusted him."
Ditto. But I am taking my time. I am on the free tier; I cost him money. I'll move off eventually probably to Tutanota unless something better shows up