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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 01:32:30 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

Sigh, no. LLMs are not "approaching" universal Turing machines. They are specific programs run on computers which *are* universal Turing machines.
https://www.ft.com/content/5c41202b-6034-4cac-81a8-7968e9fa603a
And YES policymaking deserves and requires deep, thoughtful work by experts --- but this should be diverse communities of experts and not single "great men".
In conversation about a year ago from dair-community.social permalink
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1. Screencap from linked article: Whereas the electro-mechanical device that Turing built could perform just one code-cracking function well, today’s frontier AI models are approaching the “universal” computers he could only imagine, capable of vastly more functions. The dilemma is that the same technology that can boost economic productivity and scientific research can also escalate cyberwarfare and bioterrorism."
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