On: Weight Space Misfolding

Why are we always trying to find how to make AI useless instead of useful

Because someone is going to do that and we’d rather everybody knew about the failure modes.

Actually a decent question, though I think there is a bit of negative bias in the underlying assumption.

I would hesitate to guess many more people are using AI to find useful and productive outcomes. They aren't all writing about it. Whenever someone finds a negative outcome for the AIs, then they will rush to publish it.

Overall, the tech is being used in useful ways. I don't write an article every time it solves performance bugs, writes entire features unassisted, resolves production issues, etc.

Who is "we"? Has AI been getting more useless over the last few years, or has it been getting more useful? The arc of recent history certainly seems to be towards greater, not lesser, capabilities.

We is we the human race, our species, where have you been?

>Has AI been getting more useless over the last few years, or has it been getting more useful?

It’s very arguable. Humans have been getting more useless. Maybe it’s a poor trade, we won’t know for a while