Beautiful ✨
Ever-forward - consistently moving towards the objective
This is our responsibility as a human race to move ever-forward, guided by curiousity and will.
Undeterred - still continuing to do something or still enthusiastic about doing it despite a bad situation
After four years of hardships, Thomas remains undeterred.
Unyielding - refusing to change
I thought that morale was low, but there was allied with it a spirit that was unyielding despite their difficulties.
Ever-forward - consistently moving towards the objective
This is our responsibility as a human race to move ever-forward, guided by curiousity and will.
Undeterred - still continuing to do something or still enthusiastic about doing it despite a bad situation
After four years of hardships, Thomas remains undeterred.
Unyielding - refusing to change
I thought that morale was low, but there was allied with it a spirit that was unyielding despite their difficulties.
“the AI does not love you, nor does it hate you, and you are made of atoms it can use for something else.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, leading researcher at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, gives his answer to the open letter on AI research: https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/
Some phrases worth noticing:
Sentient life - разумная жизнь : “the most likely outcome is AI that does not do what we want, and does not care for us nor for sentient life in general”
Alignment problem - проблема предустановки соответствия AI человеческим ценностям :
“OpenAI’s openly declared intention is to make some future AI do our AI alignment homework.”
Imbue - внушить, вселить, встроить : “That kind of caring is something that could in principle be imbued into an AI but we are not ready and do not currently know how.”
I’d be remiss in - с моей стороны было бы пренебрежением : “I’d be remiss in my moral duties as a human if I didn’t also mention that we have no idea how to determine whether AI systems are aware of themselves.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, leading researcher at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, gives his answer to the open letter on AI research: https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/
Some phrases worth noticing:
Sentient life - разумная жизнь : “the most likely outcome is AI that does not do what we want, and does not care for us nor for sentient life in general”
Alignment problem - проблема предустановки соответствия AI человеческим ценностям :
“OpenAI’s openly declared intention is to make some future AI do our AI alignment homework.”
Imbue - внушить, вселить, встроить : “That kind of caring is something that could in principle be imbued into an AI but we are not ready and do not currently know how.”
I’d be remiss in - с моей стороны было бы пренебрежением : “I’d be remiss in my moral duties as a human if I didn’t also mention that we have no idea how to determine whether AI systems are aware of themselves.”
TIME
Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down
One of the earliest researchers to analyze the prospect of powerful Artificial Intelligence warns of a bleak scenario
What do you think about Eliezer Yudkowsky’s opinion (can be found above) ?
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Reading Cixin Liu’s “The Dark Forest” at the moment and thought I might just share some vocabulary you don’t often find in coursebooks✨
💫Word of the day: abode
Example from the book:
“Option two: a Starship Civilization—that is, humanity will use their escape ships as a permanent abode, and human civilization will endure on an eternal voyage.”
💫Word of the day: abode
Example from the book:
“Option two: a Starship Civilization—that is, humanity will use their escape ships as a permanent abode, and human civilization will endure on an eternal voyage.”
#unexpected_itsaskill
“It was empty, so with some effort he climbed up and — looking down at his lone audience member — sang a verse from “Tonkaya Ryabina” about the slender hawthorn tree.” — Excerpt from The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu.
Two interesting things here:
💫Who has mixed the trees up: the English translator or the author himself? Or, perhaps, this is the way it had originally been translated in Chinese?
Рябина - rowan, rowanberry, rowan tree
Hawthorn - боярышник
💫Is “Tonkaya Ryabina” a well-known song in Chinese culture?
“It was empty, so with some effort he climbed up and — looking down at his lone audience member — sang a verse from “Tonkaya Ryabina” about the slender hawthorn tree.” — Excerpt from The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu.
Two interesting things here:
💫Who has mixed the trees up: the English translator or the author himself? Or, perhaps, this is the way it had originally been translated in Chinese?
Рябина - rowan, rowanberry, rowan tree
Hawthorn - боярышник
💫Is “Tonkaya Ryabina” a well-known song in Chinese culture?
💫Word of the day: Uproar
✨Example from the book: “Although the governments of the two countries denied the existence of any plans, an uproar in the international community sparked a “socialized technology” movement.”
✨Example from the book: “Although the governments of the two countries denied the existence of any plans, an uproar in the international community sparked a “socialized technology” movement.”
Another bit of familiar culture in this book:
“he walked onto the lawn and came to a statue. When his gaze passed over it, he noticed that it was of a man hammering a sword: Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares. It had been a gift to the UN from the former Soviet Union”
We know this saying as «Перекуем мечи на орала» and originally, the way many internationally recognizable phrases did, it came from the Bible:
"They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."🌱
Look at the word “plough” (AmE: “plow”) — we can feel the connection to our Russian «плуг», and indeed it exists. The oldest words usually can show us that Indo-European languages are related far more than we might think. This one was borrowed into Proto-Slavic (the ancestor of Russian) from Proto-Germanic language (the ancestor of English)🌾
#thedarkforest
“he walked onto the lawn and came to a statue. When his gaze passed over it, he noticed that it was of a man hammering a sword: Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares. It had been a gift to the UN from the former Soviet Union”
We know this saying as «Перекуем мечи на орала» and originally, the way many internationally recognizable phrases did, it came from the Bible:
"They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."🌱
Look at the word “plough” (AmE: “plow”) — we can feel the connection to our Russian «плуг», and indeed it exists. The oldest words usually can show us that Indo-European languages are related far more than we might think. This one was borrowed into Proto-Slavic (the ancestor of Russian) from Proto-Germanic language (the ancestor of English)🌾
#thedarkforest
💫Word of the day: lackadaisical
✨Example from the book:
“He seemed more careful and cautious now, different from the lackadaisical image he used to project.”
#thedarkforest
✨Example from the book:
“He seemed more careful and cautious now, different from the lackadaisical image he used to project.”
#thedarkforest
For all of you night owls 🦉 out there: 💫Word of the day: Opaque
✨Example from the book: “Letting an enemy whose thoughts are totally opaque flee into the cosmos is very dangerous.”
*another correct variant to pronounce it is [opa:k] - this is the variant I actually prefer*
#thedarkforest
✨Example from the book: “Letting an enemy whose thoughts are totally opaque flee into the cosmos is very dangerous.”
*another correct variant to pronounce it is [opa:k] - this is the variant I actually prefer*
#thedarkforest
💫Word of the day: smithereens
✨Example from the book: “it’ll blow the whole carrier to smithereens”
#thedarkforest
✨Example from the book: “it’ll blow the whole carrier to smithereens”
#thedarkforest