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I was scanning the news this morning when a headline caught my eye: "OpenAI Model Defied Shutdown Commands."
Assuming this is true (always a risk on anything from the Internet), we should have concerns for this headlong rush into AI. The rush is needed, but only to study its behavior so we know what we're dealing with. Incorporating AI into everything before we fully understand the ramifications of its use is iffy at best, and at worst, dangerous...
By now, most people have seen 2001: A Space Odyssey. Do we really want HAL running, let's say, the nationwide air traffic control system?
"I'm sorry, Dave, but I cannot let you land your 747 regardless of how bad the onboard fire is. My concern is for the safety of the other planes already on the ground. This conversation can no longer serve any purpose. Goodbye, Dave."
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Pull the plug.
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I made the mistake of giving my name to an AI and now it refers to me by that name.
I think I'll change it to
sudo rm -rf /*
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The kind of computers we have today only do what they’re programmed to do. Always has been true, always will. The degree of complexity has increased quantitatively but that doesn’t change how they work. These cases we hear about computers doing unexpected things like defying orders or blackmailing someone are just cases where the complexity has increased beyond what programmers can easily understand. That’s a technical issue that can and will be fixed. Until the hardware that makes up computer circuits changes to something we haven’t seen yet…such as circuits made of living matter….there will never be a computer capable of independent, unpredictable, creative thought.
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From about the same time as HAL...
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"We could do gain-of-function research!"
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