The AI-pocalypse

[Brett327]

I did a little digging to verify this is real. It is.

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Yeah, but what prompt generated this response? I'm half joking, and understand that it's much more complicated than this, but it is impossible to evaluate this without the context of what the model was originally tasked to do.

 

[Brett327]

Here’s an interesting counterpoint I found on social this morning. Taken with a grain of salt, but it got me thinking: how do we differentiate between existential threats above, and the prisoner’s dilemma below, OR, determine that both or neither are true?

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I would urge everyone interested in this to read Cory Doctorow's work on AI and the economics driving it. If you don't want to read an entire book, the Jon Stewart pod that he did recently is also excellent, and how I got turned on to Doctorow's work. In this show, he covers privacy, algorithm enabled price and wage fixing, and AI. Worth your time.

 

[taxi1]

@taxi1 , not doubting your background research, but how did you dig into this specifically? Correlation? Expert analysis? Something else?

I'm having a harder and harder time navigating the perils of misinformation, especially when it is on social media, which is the reason I ask.

I went to some informed sites and spoke with some big brains about it. What we’re looking at is pretty much a blur from the chain of thought of that agent.

@Brett327 , this is not a response to someone’s input prompt. It’s just a track of the agents chain of thought as it undergoes the reinforcement learning, i.e., it tries various things and gets rewarded or not for those actions. Overtime, it learns a strategy, which appears to be reflected in this chain of thought output. No matter what, it certainly freaky to see it generated.