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  • What about the frontier where companies are pushing forward?
  • We need to limit that. Full-on pause. Full-on pause. Okay. And what happens then? The instant question, what happens if we pause and China doesn’t? See, I just don’t think that that’s— I don’t take that as seriously as a lot of people do. Here’s why. A lot of the frontier research is just spoofing our models. China’s research. China’s research. It’d be like you’re pulling a skier on a boat, and you speed up the boat and you’re like, the skier is still so close, we got to speed up, skier is still so close. Well, it’s because you’re pulling the skier. I think that’s in part what’s happening. They’ve been very, very good at just mocking our technology. I think if we slow down, I think we will find that a lot of what China is doing is more about the dispersion of this technology than it is on frontier research. At the same time, I think we need an international treaty. I think we need to be working with the Chinese because eventually, eventually, the water skier can still swim and catch up. I mean, that’s where they now just fall apart. Running, running, running with the metaphor. But eventually, yes, they are going to be able to hop on a jet ski and catch up. But the point that I’m making here is that I think all of us are interested in the preservation of humanity, right? Because, you know, in China, they’re humans too, and we’re humans too. And creating robots that get to this point of recursive self-improvement, kind of like that horror point in Fantasia, where you’ve got the mops with the buckets that are self-creating. None of us want to get there. And none of us want to see what happens when you open Pandora’s box and all of a sudden, AI has far exceeded our control. So I think we all have an incentive to get this right, but to understand that we are going to have to figure out how to work together similarly to what we’ve done when it came to other potentially humanity-risking technological endeavors like nuclear power. To be able to contain the potential threat and work together to make sure that we are focused more on protecting humanity than just simply what the microscale incentives might look like. submitted by /u/Puzzleheaded-King584

Originally posted by u/Puzzleheaded-King584 on r/ArtificialInteligence