Yet another news story that omits how the science in HPMOR, the Sequences and the flagship e/acc blog is just wrong. Like, failing junior-high biology wrong.
The A.I., trying to access a Web site, was blocked by a Captcha, a visual test to keep out bots. So it used a work-around: it hired a human on Taskrabbit to solve the Captcha on its behalf.
Wait, didn't that turn out to be bullshit?
Paul Graham needs to take a lesson from Jenny Nicholson and organize his thoughts into a numbered list.
Graham takes the nebulous concept of "best" and, at great length and with great effort, fails to bring clarity.
It's not even the right decade; the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was in 1956.
However, Divyansh Kaushik, associate director for emerging technologies and national security at the Federation of American Scientists, told VentureBeat that President Biden’s AI Executive Order, introduced in November 2023, specifically asks NIST and the AISI to focus on certain tasks — including CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials) — for which Paul Christiano is “extremely qualified.”
[citation needed]
"you took a perfectly good pocket calculator and made it SuperWhoLock"
"Without resorting to sore losing, I'm going to be a sore loser. Nyah!"
Buh bye now.
"It would be hard to abuse a law that forcibly sterilized everybody with an IQ under 90 provided that the person scored that low on an objective test blindly graded." —Richard Hanania
No, not the forcing values! :-O
We should have known the English rain was trouble when it started giving people tans