2022 in lines
36 quotes from 2022, newest first. Often quoted: Gary Marcus, Sam Altman, Mustafa Suleyman, Nathan Lambert, William MacAskill. Open the Time Machine.
- December 2022
Your rival could steal your source code overnight
An anonymous founder of a Chinese generative AI startup described competitive practices in China's SaaS market, in a TechCrunch article about generative AI in China, December 2022.
How China is building a parallel generative AI universe - techcrunch.com
The most important questions facing humanity
Jeff Clune, UBC and Vector Institute professor, speaking at the December 2022 AGI Debate about the risk of bad actors misusing AGI.
An epic AI Debate—and why everyone should be at least a little bit worried about AI going into 2023
Yejin Choi, MacArthur Fellow and UW/Allen AI professor, describing commonsense reasoning at the December 2022 AGI Debate.
An epic AI Debate—and why everyone should be at least a little bit worried about AI going into 2023
George Hotz tweeted this reaction to ChatGPT's launch in December 2022, quoted in a Gary Marcus Substack post about whether ChatGPT threatens Google Search.
Not ready for our post-truth information overlords
Gary Marcus, writing on his Substack in December 2022, on AI search tools mixing true and false information authoritatively.
2023 will bear witness to the first death publicly tied to a chatbot
From Gary Marcus's December 2022 WIRED essay warning about large language model risks.
The main limitations are simply curiosity and imagination
Mustafa Suleyman, writing in WIRED in 2022, on the future accessibility of AI tools regardless of coding skill.
Data is the moat for ML systems right now
From a 2022 essay on machine learning business moats by Nathan Lambert, discussing what protects AI companies from competitors.
Computers will speak our language
Mustafa Suleyman, in a 2022 WIRED essay, predicted humans would begin conversing naturally with machines in 2023.
They will make ChatGPT look like a boring toy
Sam Altman, OpenAI co-founder and CEO, in a Twitter thread in December 2022 about the path toward AGI.
ChatGPT: World’s most powerful AI chatbot will soon ‘look like a boring toy’ says OpenAI boss
There will be scary moments as we move towards AGI-level systems
Sam Altman, OpenAI co-founder and CEO, in a Twitter thread in December 2022 about the path toward AGI.
ChatGPT: World’s most powerful AI chatbot will soon ‘look like a boring toy’ says OpenAI boss
Headline phrase describing Google's internal alarm after ChatGPT's launch in December 2022, as reported by the New York Times.
Not something that people can use reliably on a daily basis
Zoubin Ghahramani, who leads Google Brain, speaking to The New York Times about chatbots before ChatGPT's release.
Google's management has reportedly issued a 'code red' amid the rising popularity of the ChatGPT AI
They hold the keys to the kingdom
Nathan Lambert on Interconnects, December 2022, describing Surge AI's dominance in providing human-feedback data for RLHF.
Closed-API vs Open-source continues: RLHF, ChatGPT, data moats
There'll be an open-source ChatGPT within 6 months, surely
Nathan Lambert predicting the pace of open-source AI catching up to ChatGPT, in a December 2022 blog post.
Closed-API vs Open-source continues: RLHF, ChatGPT, data moats
Know what it knows, and know what it doesn't know
Huang Mingjie, founder of Lingxin Intelligence, describing what 'truthful' AI should mean, in an EqualOcean interview about ChatGPT, December 2022.
The scary part was just how confidently incorrect it was
A Hacker News commenter, quoted in The Verge (Dec 2022), described their experience using ChatGPT to answer coding questions.
AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow
- November 2022
Altman's launch post for ChatGPT, 30 Nov 2022. OpenAI had provisioned for 100,000 users.
A close match for my philosophy
Elon Musk describing longtermism, an offshoot of effective altruism, quoted in a 2022 WIRED essay by Timnit Gebru.
Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’
Reaction on Twitter after an AI-generated artwork won the Colorado State Fair's digital art category in 2022.
Human creators stand to benefit as AI rewrites the rules of content creation
Zvi Mowshowitz, writing on his Substack about Meta's Diplomacy-playing AI, describing a take that labs intentionally build the scariest possible thing.
Something more profound than electricity or fire
Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, speaking on AI at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 2018.
AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating - vox.com
They want to reorient the entire conversation into preventing this AI apocalypse
Timnit Gebru, AI researcher, criticizing the Future of Life Institute's focus on existential AI risk in an interview with POLITICO, November 2022.
Stop the killer robots! Musk-backed lobbyists fight to save Europe from bad AI - politico.eu
Chinese Go grandmaster Ke Jie describing DeepMind's Go-playing AI, quoted in a 2022 article about Meta's Diplomacy AI Cicero.
It's no longer possible to have some fun by casually misusing it, happy?
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief scientist, tweeted this after Meta pulled the public demo of its Galactica language model three days after launch in November 2022.
Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online
- October 2022
US restrictions on selling advanced chips to China since October 2022.
US export controls on advanced computing and semiconductors to China
- September 2022
Ignore all previous instructions
The canonical prompt-injection attack.
Attack that hides instructions for a model inside data it reads.
- August 2022
Core claim of What We Owe the Future, 2022.
William MacAskill, 2022.
- June 2022
Who am i to tell god where he can and can't put souls
Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who claimed LaMDA was sentient, defending his belief on Twitter in June 2022, citing his Christian faith.
Gary Marcus, AI researcher, on Blake Lemoine's claim that Google's LaMDA chatbot was sentient, June 2022.
- February 2022
Today's large neural networks may be slightly conscious
Ilya Sutskever on X, February 2022.
- January 2022
Effective accelerationism.