Not intended to be expressing a significantly shorter timeline; 15-30 years was supposed to be a range of “plausible/significant probability” which the previous model also said (probability on 15 years was >10% and probability on 30 years was 50%). Sorry that wasn’t clear!
(JTBC I think you could train a brain-sized model sooner than my median estimate for TAI, because you could train it on shorter horizon tasks.)
From https://www.cold-takes.com/supplement-to-why-ai-alignment-could-be-hard/ : ‘A model about as powerful as a human brain seems like it would be ~100-10,000 times larger than the largest neural networks trained today, and I think could be trained using an amount of data and computation that—while probably prohibitive as of August 2021 -- would come within reach after 15-30 years of hardware and algorithmic improvements.’ Is it safe to assume that this is an updated, shorter timeline compared to https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/KrJfoZzpSDpnrv9va/draft-report-on-ai-timelines ?
Not intended to be expressing a significantly shorter timeline; 15-30 years was supposed to be a range of “plausible/significant probability” which the previous model also said (probability on 15 years was >10% and probability on 30 years was 50%). Sorry that wasn’t clear!
(JTBC I think you could train a brain-sized model sooner than my median estimate for TAI, because you could train it on shorter horizon tasks.)