Eliezer Yudkowsky

And from my perspective, this is all like an indistinguishable lob of people who are trying to not get to grips with the difficult problem of understanding how intelligence actually works.

That said...

I was never skeptical that evolutionary computation would not work in the limit.

Like, you throw enough computing power at it, it obviously works.

That is where humans come from.

And it turned out that you can throw less computing power than that at gradient descent if you are doing some other things correctly, and you will get intelligence without having any idea of how it works and what is going on inside.

It wasn't ruled out by my model that this could happen.

I wasn't expecting it to happen.

I wouldn't have been able to call neural networks rather than any of the other paradigms for getting like massive amount like intelligence without understanding it.

And I wouldn't have said that this was a particularly smart thing for a species to do, which is an opinion that has changed less than my opinion about whether or not you can actually do it.

Yes.

Just flatly last.

Yes.

The question is whether the current architecture of stacking more transformer layers, which for all we know, GPT-4 is no longer doing because they're not telling us the architecture, which is a correct decision.

Oh, correct decision.

Change their name to ClosedAI.

And like...

sell GPT-4 to business backend applications that don't expose it to consumers and venture capitalists and create a ton of hype and pour a bunch of new funding into the area.

Too late now.

But don't you think others would do it?