GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators - AI Alignment Forum
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x GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators — AI Alignment Forum Best of LessWrong 2023 GPT Simulator Theory AI Frontpage 112 GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators by Eliezer Yudkowsky 8th Apr 2023 4 min read 100 112 (Related text posted to Twitter ; this version is edited and has a more advanced final section.) Imagine yourself in a box, trying to predict the next word - assign as much probability mass to the next token as possible - for all the text on the Internet. Koan: Is this a task whose difficulty caps out as human intelligence , or at the intelligence level of the smartest human who wrote any I
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