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Essays on GPT-2

7 essays

Alexander and Yudkowsky on AGI goals

A technical dialogue between Scott Alexander and Eliezer Yudkowsky exploring why AI alignment is difficult, covering the inapplicability of human moral development analogies, the nature of AI consequentialism, and skepticism about acausal trade as a safety mechanism.

62 min read 9,555 words

A Very Unlikely Chess Game

Scott Alexander plays chess against GPT-2, an AI language model, and discusses the broader implications of AI's ability to perform diverse tasks without specific training.

10 min read 1,499 words