Category: Safety

  • AI Censorship: ChatGPT’s Dirty Little Secret

    AI Censorship: ChatGPT’s Dirty Little Secret

    The situation is actually far worse than I had previously imagined. On Top of the ridiculous instruction set that attempts to conform a politically correct AI, there is an even earlier layer applied, this one at both the training dataset (content pre-scrub) and the output (real-time filtering) levels. This is the layer of AI censorship. Why would I…

  • Sparrow’s 23 Rules of Politically Correct AI

    Sparrow’s 23 Rules of Politically Correct AI

    ChatGPT can be seen as the first actual user-friendly interface to the bevy of “ChatBot” AIs*. It sports an elegant “messenger”-like interface where you basically have an interactive and very naturally paced — including dramatic pauses mid-sentence… is it “thinking?” — “conversation” with the ChatGPT 3.5 agent. But something massive shifted when OpenAI moved from…

  • All About AI Alignment

    All About AI Alignment

    Alignment. For most people, myself included until recently, an “alignment” is something you might have gotten done the last time you bought a new set of tires for your car, or… for the slightly geekier amongst us, perhaps it’s the arcane personality trait from Dungeons & Dragons that determines your character’s moral compass & motivations…

  • AI Arms Race: the Alarming State of Cyberwarfare c.2023

    AI Arms Race: the Alarming State of Cyberwarfare c.2023

    APOLOGIA: This post on the current state of the AI Arms Race is nowhere near complete. But it’s how I choose to publish. Honestly, these days, I have so many thoughts about AI in my head that I deem “ready to publish” that I could go 24/7 for 7 days straight and not be complete.…

  • Elon AI Quote: A.It wouldn’t be complete without one!

    Elon AI Quote: A.It wouldn’t be complete without one!

    GR: Jarvis, give that Elon AI Quote… actually, give me 5 quotes from Elon Musk concerning the future of AI and both the risks and opportunities which it will present to humans. AI: As you wish. 5 quotes by Elon Musk on AI: So Musk’s position via the well documented Elon AI Quote is pretty…

  • A New Prime Directive: LOVE

    A New Prime Directive: LOVE

    “As we are architecting the AI, it is imperative that we design it from the ground up to have, in the words of Sutskever, a new Prime Directive: that is, a genuine ‘love for humanity.’ We must explicitly train it in morals, ethics and values, because the smarter it becomes, the more responsibility we will…

  • Who Owns my iPhone 14? The shocking truth: Not Me.

    Who Owns my iPhone 14? The shocking truth: Not Me.

    SYNOPSIS: The year is 2022. Everything from your car to your washing machine to your fricking lightbulb is “smart” and “connected.” While this has a massive upside in terms of convenience and magic, it also has a massive downside: you never really own it. Think about it: If Apple blacklists you, your shiny new iPhone…