There are some "AI thinkers" who are trying to make 8% faster CUDA kernels for attention, and there are some trying to save the world. These fields are called "capabilities" and "alignment". There is some overlap but not much.
LessWrong is mostly the latter, and labs and universities are mostly the former. That said, many LessWrongers work on AI at labs or universities or other places.
The lesswrongers/rationalists became Effective Altruists, Alignment Researchers or some flavor of postrat.
The university people all became researchers in the labs.
Then there are the cyborgism people, I don't know where they came from, but those have some of the interesting takes on the whole topic.
fairmind|4 months ago
synapsomorphy|4 months ago
There are some "AI thinkers" who are trying to make 8% faster CUDA kernels for attention, and there are some trying to save the world. These fields are called "capabilities" and "alignment". There is some overlap but not much.
LessWrong is mostly the latter, and labs and universities are mostly the former. That said, many LessWrongers work on AI at labs or universities or other places.
curiouscube|4 months ago