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by Analog24
1180 days ago
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No it wasn't. You have the misconception that an AI system has to achieve anthropomorphic qualities to become dangerous. ML algorithms are goal-oriented, they are optimized to maximize a specific goal. If that goal is not aligned with what a group of people want then it can become a danger to them. You seem to be dismissing the entire problem of AI alignment due to some people's belief/desire for LLMs to assume a human persona. Those people are uninformed and not the ones seriously thinking about this problem so you shouldn't use their position as a straw man. |
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More than that. It has to achieve super-human abilities.[1] And it might also need to become self-improving, because how else could it spiral out of control, as the hysterics often complain about? (Remember: human intelligence is not self-improving.) It also needs to gain an embodiment that reaches further than server rooms. How does it do that? I guess it social-engineers the humans and then… Some extra steps? And then it gets more and more spooky.
This is more science fiction than technology.
[1] Or else it is no more dangerous than a human, and thus irrational to worry about (relative to what humans do to each other on a daily basis).
> ML algorithms are goal-oriented, they are optimized to maximize a specific goal.
The Paper Clip Machine. I’m more worried about the Profit Making Machine, Capitalism, since it is doing real harm today and not potentially next month/next year/next decade. (Oh yeah, those Paper Clip Machine philosophers kind of missed the last two hundred years of the real-life Paper Clip Machine… but what would the handmaidens of such a monstrosity have against that, to be fair.)