He defines the first core mechanism as an anti-user orientation: if AGI cannot answer the project's true aim, opacity itself functions as a control tactic.
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He defines the first core mechanism as an anti-user orientation: if AGI cannot answer the project's true aim, opacity itself functions as a control tactic.
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A prophet does not primarily mean a person who predicts the future; for Jiang, a prophet is someone who speaks truth.
Jiang says the technically correct term for AI is supervised machine learning.
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"So this is a really huge problem, you know, so Karen Howell is a reporter. She was working for the, um, technology review at..."
"Okay. Okay. So the word prophet doesn't actually mean someone who predicts the future. Okay? The word prophet actually means someone who speaks to..."
"Okay? So, what is AI? All right. The AI, the technical term, is supervised intelligence. Supervised machine learning. Okay? That's the technical term. AI..."
"...to define. What artificial intelligence is, it's, they're constantly changing the definition of AGI in order to better control the world. Okay. And we'll..."
"...shopping bags across the road outside the designated crosswalk. The textbook definition of an edge case scenario."
"...your prediction that he would lose the war. Right. What's your definition of lose the war?"
"...are defined based on the consequentialism of secret society and other definitions. Okay. What is the significance of our efforts? Isn't it still exacerbating..."
"...understand this is rhetoric, right? This is sophistry. We're changing the definition of the word. We're changing the idea of the word. Circumcision is..."
"...is perfect everything is eternal everything is immutable and so by definition you can feel no pain you cannot suffer you cannot make any..."
"...solves this problem. Right because the nation has to be by definition a community of individuals on a shared identity. So the nation is..."
"...that we still live in today. Now, there are many different, definitions of modernism, but for us, the easiest definition is cult of the..."
"...that we still live in today. Now, there are many different definitions of modernism, but for us, the easiest definition is cult of the..."
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