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Fireside Alpha [verified] @firesidealpha · 22h Elon Musk explains why, to an AI, talking to a human will be like talking to a tree "Even in the most benign scenario where the AI is super friendly and wants to make you happy, our rate of communication is too slow." "Our peak human bandwidth is only about 100 bits per second, roughly. Our input bandwidth is much higher because of vision, maybe a megabit or a few megabits per second from our eyes, which are effectively like cameras. But our output bandwidth is really low, maybe 100 bits per second, whereas computers are communicating at a trillion bits per second." "So anything we can do to increase the communication speed of humans will improve the alignment of humans and machines. Because otherwise, to an AI that is communicating at a terabit a second, talking to a human will be like talking to a tree. You talk to a tree, it takes a long time to respond."
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An X post by Fireside Alpha quoting Elon Musk on human-AI communication bandwidth, arguing that raising human communication speed improves human-machine alignment.
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