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AI Alignment Is Turning from Alchemy Into Chemistry - Alexey Guzey

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Introduction For years, I would encounter a paper about alignment — the field where people are working on making AI not take over humanity and/or kill us all — and my first reaction would be “oh my god why would you do this”. The entire field felt like bullshit. I felt like people had been working on this problem for ages: Yudkowsky, all of LessWrong, the effective altruists. The whole alignment discourse had been around for so long, yet there was basically no real progress; nothing …

AI Alignment Is Turning from Alchemy Into Chemistry created: 2023-04-25 ; modified: 2023-04-25 Table of Contents 5 random top posts > Why I believe in AGI (again) > Most Important Slate Star Codex Posts > Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors > You are a morale-driven machine > Theses on Sleep Introduction For years, I would encounter a paper about alignment — the field where people are working on making AI not take over humanity and/or kill us all — and my first reaction would be "oh my god why would you do this”. The entire field felt like bull

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