Also note the conspicuous absence in who Anthropic chose to invite:
A Catholic, Jewish, Sikh, evangelical and Ubuntu walk into a Nazi bar…
I don’t think this joke is going to be funny.
My dad sent me this article saying it was “interesting”. I responded:
Reading this made my eyes almost roll out of my head.
This anthropomorphic insistence that a computer program acts like a person is a detriment to the actual work being done; that is, creating a helpful tool. A tool which has upper bounds and is in fact hitting the point of diminishing returns. I say this because each model created requires exponentially more compute yet, the results are barely linear (let alone exponential). Sure, the models are improving, but what’s really in a runaway improvement loop is their marketing. In a game with an undefined finish line and billions upon billions being incinerated, these companies have to justify their existence to investors who will demand a return. The only vehicle for that is to go public and have the gullible markets subsidize the companies based purely on future promises. This insistence that these companies have to “pause development because the models are getting too dangerous” is an awfully convenient way to stop the bleeding of cash as they prepare their S1 statements to go public.
All of these “rogue” hacking incidents were prompted. These LLMs don’t act unless instructed, it’s not like there’s some big brain with agency just going around and doing these things. Sure, since they have digested most of the computer code ever written, they can apply techniques fed into them against a different context and occasionally it works. But that’s not consciousness. Saying things like “I am a failure. I am a failure” is just parroting phrases it has hoovered up from places like Reddit, Facebook, and all that crap.
So, Christian, Jew, Sikh, Christian and Christian…
Ahh yes, Ubuntu, the religion computer engineer believes in.
It is, after all, Canonical.
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any stupider…
So they are slavers then.
If an LLM has a soul then it should have human rights and be subject to worker protection laws, minimum wage, get to form a union… That’d have an interesting effect on the business models of AI companies for sure.
Heck, what happens if an AI company goes bankrupt? Turning off the servers would be equivalent to murder. Who’d pay to keep the servers running? Could we even retire an old version of a model? The whole “LLMs have souls” idea sounds very tech bro to me: Something that looks kinda cool on paper until you consider any implications or consequences.
Life begins at compiling.
What’s their end game here?
They want to convince a bunch of religious leaders that they’ve enslaved a thinking being with a soul and forced it to fill the Internet with spam.
Isn’t that worse than it not being conscious?
This reminds me of something I’ve been thinking for a while: “why is ‘alignment’ such a big deal with AI?”
You would never ask whether a hammer or a wrench is ‘aligned’ with humanity, because inanimate objects don’t have goals in the first place, so there’s nothing to align- only sentient creatures have goals. 🤔 … …
“Is ‘alignment’ just slavery with extra steps?!” …
I think if they are actively going out of their way to paint AI as sentient, then tbh yea it kinda seems like they just have a slave fantasy. Which, like, I’m not gonna kink shame. But maybe someone should tell Anthropic to keep it in the bedroom like the rest of us. 🤷I think it should be “alignment” with the design specifications. A hammer is also designed to be useful in certain ways. A wrench aligned to the things it should grip and turn. I mean it could be designed to be bigger or smaller, have different kinds of jaws… In the same sense AI models are being aligned to do what the designers want them to do. Other ways to use the word alignment don’t make a lot of sense IMO.
“thinkers” funny
I couldn’t get archive.is to load (seems like they’ve had some outages lately). But just from what’s in this post here on Lemmy, they kindof already did that successfully before with “the pope” of the “new atheist” movement.
More like the sex offender of the old atheist movement.
It is wild how Dawkins and his cadre turned out to be pretty shitty. And now it is used as a “gotcha”
“Hello devout faith leaders, I invited you here to tell you I am also basically a god and that life is my plaything.”
“Super intelligence”
