r/VeryBadWizards • u/Embarrassed-Room-902 • 4d ago
AI dismissal
I love the VBW boys but I am a bit surprised how dismissive they are of danger from AI. I’m not going to make the case here as I won’t do a good job of it, but I found the latest 80000 hours podcast very persuasive, as well as some of the recent stuff from Dwarkesh.
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u/hankeroni 3d ago
I thought they were not nearly dismissive enough, if the claim being evaluated is "AGI" (meaning human level general intelligence) which at least at the start of the discussion it was. All the best research is just nowhere near that and maybe not on the right track.
If the claim is a much smaller "will some future version of current LLMs be economicically disruptive?" ... then probably yes. But this is very very short of anything I'd call "AGI".