LLMs are getting much more capable, and progress is rapid. I use them in my daily work, and there are many tasks where they're usefully some combination of faster and more capable than I am. I don't see signs of these capability increases stopping or slowing down, and if they do continue I expect the impact on society to start accelerating as they exceed what an increasing fraction of humans can do. I think we could see serious changes in the next 2-5 years.

In my professional life, working on pathogen detection I take this pretty seriously. Advances in AI make it easier for adversaries to design and create pathogens, and so it's important to get a comprehensive detection system in place quickly. Similarly, more powerful AIs are likely to speed up our work in some areas (computational detection) more than others (partnerships) and increase the [...]

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November 10th, 2024

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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CNA8ksMwcuXHPjXRt/personal-ai-planning

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