mastodon 4.7.3Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington
Faculty Director, Professional MS Program in Computational Linguistics (CLMS)
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Honestly, I'm really tired of this extremely silly question, but here is my answer:
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and I am not the one making the extraordinary claim, so it is not my job to specify what the evidence should be.
The employees at Anthropic are telling themselves stories based on the words they input into the software and the words that come back out.
It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them.
Clearly not. Large language models are computer software and they can no more suffer than any other human-created artifact can.
Nadella, Pichai, Huang, Zuckerberg, Huang, Dean --- you all own this unhinged narrative just as much as the Doomers do.
Of course, they're happy to own this, because they benefit as much as Altman, Amodei, and Musk from keeping the policymakers focused on fantasies.
RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116974840056295473
Also available as video on PeerTube:
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/23g3vAkBsgQM1svfo3hhRD
