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* To determine whether AI is ‘improving exponentially’, ‘hitting the wall’, or any other claim which involves a quantity or magnitude (e.g. ‘This model was a big leap/small increment’). We need a good y-axis: an interval scale of AI capability which means +1 unit always represents the same degree of ‘how much better’, in the same way +1 degree Celsius is always the same amount of ‘how much hotter’.
* Yet there is no good y-axis for AI capability. All our...
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Curious if there is any addictiveness benchmark for new technologies.
* How would it be measured, would it be similar to training a preference model on rankings of multiple responses?
* I am aware many people are aware how technology can be addictive. I seen people say the best way to avoid it is to not use it or it is the person who is addicted fault. How about instead of people completely avoiding certain technologies like social media is there any effort to make these technologies at the very least less addictive
*I feel this can also be effective with since we do not want to cause a future of simply looking at screens in the future like the wally movie humans
Is there anyone working on making to making less addictive alternatives to technologies or tools to reduce addiction?