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"You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curve (situational-awareness.ai)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Electromagnetism is a standard subject covered in a bajillion books, so the training set is probably full of repeated explanations of the basic examples. That sounds like an excellent recipe for "AI" bilge-water that is just coherent enough for a student to miss where it goes wrong.