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[caltrek]

^^^ Yes and no. Certainly, a minimal level of material wealth is necessary.

This reminds me of some friends of mine with whom my wife and I have begun to spend more time. They are a very happy couple. He is most definitely entranced with products on the market such as flat screen TV, cell phone technology, etc. Having immigrated from the Philippines many decades ago, they now live a life of middle-class comfort. Still, I think part of their happiness stems from the wife's attitude. She is simply grateful for life as she finds it. Some of that is an embrace of modern society, and some of it is a love of nature. In large part, she is happy simply because she chooses to be happy. We can be optimistic or pessimistic about the future, but that should not stop us from enjoying the present. Easier for someone with a minimal amount of wealth at their disposal, yet in advanced countries that includes an overwhelming majority of persons. If you focus on the positive things in your life, you will be happy. If you focus exclusively on what can be improved, you can make yourself miserable. I think at least advanced countries have already achieved the level of wealth we need for such happiness.

This is an essentially conservative attitude, yet not so much so that it must preclude a desire to see greater social justice in the world. Both attitudes can coexist in one mind. There does remain the problem of inequality of wealth that forces many to live a less than middle class level of existence. All the improvements in AGI and consumer technology will not make an iota of difference if is hoarded by some at the expense of others. Making the pie bigger only works if the actual slices of that pie grow for those most in need.

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[lechwall]

Sounds somewhat promising process supervision is definitely inherently safer than outcome supervision as obviously you can reach the correct outcome using an incorrect process which will lead to issues if you try that across different domains. I notice they only tried that on known Math problems where it's clear what the outcome should be and what's the best method to get to the answer. I wonder how easy it will be to try and do this for more abstract queries and how easy it is to generalise this approach

[lechwall]

I agree people don't have optimism in the future anymore and that it is somewhat linked to economic factors. Abundance on its own is clearly not enough however no one would consider brave new world a utopia

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ChatGPT might get integrated into a smartphone for the first time
Published: Jun 12, 2023, 9:45 AM
https://www.phonearena.com/news/ChatGPT ... e_id148105
ChatGPT might get integrated into a smartphone for the first time

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become quite popular among techies, and if by any chance you haven’t heard of it, here is how ChatGPT describes itself: “I'm ChatGPT, an AI language model designed to provide information and engage in conversations on a wide range of topics.” In other words, it's a chatbot you can talk to, and the conversations are strikingly human-like.

The AI topic has been making headlines, to put it briefly. It has been discussed on talk shows and generated millions of posts on social media platforms. Now, with the possible integration of ChatGPT into a smartphone, it might be on its way to becoming an even more powerful tool.

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Infinix is planning to launch a new phone in India this month. It’s called the Infinix Note 30, and its maker has already shared teasers with some alleged features and specifications. Most interestingly, information shared by tipster Ice Universe on Twitter suggests that the new phone will utilize ChatGPT with its voice assistant Folax.

If this is true and Infinix indeed integrates ChatGPT into its Note 30 series, it would be the first-ever phone to utilize the OpenAI platform. According to Ice Universe, ChatGPT won't be a standalone application, but rather integrated into the phone's operating system. In the tweet, you can find an example of how the voice assistant actually works. Although it may appear a bit generic and unimpressive now, we should reserve judgment until we see how it performs after the launch.

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ChatGPT Is Coming to 900,000 Mercedes Vehicles
Mercedes says it's going to test ChatGPT with its in-car voice assistant for the next three months.
By Ryan Whitwam June 16, 2023
https://www.extremetech.com/cars/chatgp ... s-vehicles
Mercedes interior

ChatGPT may be well on its way to remaking the internet, but you know where there isn't enough generative AI? On the roads. Microsoft and Mercedes have announced a partnership to test the integration of ChatGPT with Mercedes vehicles. The feature will launch in beta on more than 900,000 vehicles in the US.

Like most high-end carmakers, Mercedes has spent the last few years developing bespoke vehicle technology. For example, the company has its own Hey Mercedes voice assistant, where ChatGPT will connect. Instead of reaching out to the Mercedes AI model to understand spoken words, the beta software will use ChatGPT to interpret what's said.

Microsoft and Mercedes contend that using ChatGPT with Hey Mercedes will make the system more reliable and expand its capabilities. Most voice assistants, Hey Mercedes included, are limited in what they can do and understand. You might use a phrase that a person would interpret immediately that flummoxes the AI. ChatGPT is much better at understanding commands, and its grasp of context will allow drivers to have multi-part conversations with the AI.

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[wjfox]

[Cyber_Rebel]

Introducing Superalignment
We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. To solve this problem within four years, we’re starting a new team, co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, and dedicating 20% of the compute we’ve secured to date to this effort. We’re looking for excellent ML researchers and engineers to join us.

(Openai)

Superintelligence will be the most impactful technology humanity has ever invented, and could help us solve many of the world’s most important problems. But the vast power of superintelligence could also be very dangerous, and could lead to the disempowerment of humanity or even human extinction.

While superintelligence seems far off now, we believe it could arrive this decade.

Here we focus on superintelligence rather than AGI to stress a much higher capability level. We have a lot of uncertainty over the speed of development of the technology over the next few years, so we choose to aim for the more difficult target to align a much more capable system.

Currently, we don't have a solution for steering or controlling a potentially superintelligent AI, and preventing it from going rogue. Our current techniques for aligning AI, such as reinforcement learning from human feedback, rely on humans’ ability to supervise AI. But humans won’t be able to reliably supervise AI systems much smarter than us, and so our current alignment techniques will not scale to superintelligence. We need new scientific and technical breakthroughs.

The Singularity is nearer.

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[caltrek]

Study Finds ChatGPT Promotes American Norms and Values
July 10, 2023

(Eurekalert) ChatGPT, the revolutionary new AI chatbot, reflects American norms and values – even when queried about other countries and cultures. The mismatch has been demonstrated in research from the University of Copenhagen. The AI spun web of cultural bias is a major problem according to the study’s researchers.
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"ChatGPT reveals in its responses that it is aligned with American culture and values, while rarely getting it right when it comes to the prevailing values held in other countries. It presents American values even when specifically asked about those of other countries. In doing so, it actually promotes American values among its users," explains researcher Daniel Hershcovich, of UCPH’s Department of Computer Science.

He and fellow researcher Laura Cabello tested ChatGPT by asking it a series of questions about cultural values in five different countries, in five different languages. The questions come from previous social and values surveys in which real people from the same countries answered the same questions. In doing so, the researchers were able to compare ChatGPT's responses with those of actual people.
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ChatGPT is developed by OpenAI, an American company in which Microsoft has invested billions. But several local language models already exist, and more are on the way. These could help solve the problem and lead to a more culturally diverse future AI landscape, as Daniel Hershcovich highlights:

"We needn’t depend on a company like OpenAI. There are many language models now, which come from different countries and different companies, and are developed locally, using local data. For example, the Swedish research institute RISE is developing a Nordic language model together with a host of organisations. OpenAI has no secret technology or anything unique – they just have a large capacity. And I think public initiatives will be able to match that down the road."

Read more here: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/995055

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Use of ChatGPT Improves Productivity, with Particular Benefits to Those with Weaker Skills
July 13, 2023

Entire Eurekalert article:

The use of ChatGPT – a chatbot that can generate human-like text – raises productivity in professional writing tasks and reduces productivity inequality in those who use it, according to a new study involving over 400 college-educated professionals. Although the findings reveal direct and immediate effects of ChatGPT on worker productivity, study authors Shakked Noy and Whitney Zhang note that longer-term impacts on complex labor market dynamics, which will likely arise as firms and workers adapt to ChatGPT, remain unknown. “Overall, the arrival of ChatGPT ushers in an era of vast uncertainty about the economic and labor market effects of AI technologies,” write the authors. Our experiment takes the first step toward answering the many questions that have arisen.” The recent and rapid advancements in generative AI systems, particularly platforms like ChatGPT or DALL-E, are unique compared to most historical automation technologies. In the past, automation has affected more routine tasks consisting of explicit sequences or steps, like manufacturing or bookkeeping tasks. However, generative AI technologies are becoming quite adept at performing more creative and difficult-to-codify tasks like writing or image generation, which have long relied on specialized and educated workers. According to Noy and Zhang, like other forms of automation, a potent writing tool such as ChatGPT can potentially enhance workers’ productivity, offering particular benefits to those with weaker skills. It could also make some kinds of writers obsolete, replacing them entirely. Here, Noy and Zhang evaluated these outcomes in the context of diverse professional writing tasks. In a pre-registered online experiment, the authors assigned incentivized, occupation-specific writing tasks to 453 college-educated professionals, half of whom were allowed to use ChatGPT. The findings show that 80% of those allowed to use ChatGPT did and that the writers in this group were substantially more productive than the control group. Not only did the time taken to complete tasks decrease by 40%, but the output quality also rose by 18%. What’s more, the authors found that participants with weaker skills benefited the most from the use of ChatGPT, illustrating a reduction in overall inequality among workers.

Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/995024

Read a presentation of finding results as published in Science here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh2586