Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Emily M. Bender is a computational linguist known for critical work on large language models, particularly her arguments about the limits of statistical approaches to language and the dangers of anthropomorphizing AI systems. She appears here as a consulted reviewer helping shape arguments about AI hype and the problematic attribution of consciousness and understanding to language models. Her presence signals the course's engagement with linguistically-grounded critique of AI capabilities claims.

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Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

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Recently, however, there has been a proliferation of organizations aiming to build AGI and asserting that their products are close to achieving it (Bubeck, et al., 2023; Cuthbertson, 2022). While a number of researchers have debated whether…The AGI race fueled by the TESCREAList goal to build “transhuman minds” (Goertzel, 2010) and bring about “unlimited intelligence” has also resulted in systems that consume more and more resources in terms of data and compute power. This lea…For example, OpenAI’s leaders have described their tools as “slightly conscious” [112], and predict that “in the next five years, computer programs that can think will read legal documents and give medical advice” [113]. Venkatasubramanian …

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