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by flagrant_taco 932 days ago
How would you define or recognize a level of intelligence or autonomy that is sufficient to raise concerns? Would you be able to recognize it before its too late?

An early GPT-4 test ended up with GPT successfully solving capchas by tricking a TaskRabbit worker into doing it for them [1]. When asked by the worker if it was a robot, GPT decided to lie to the worker and claim it had a visual impairment that made it difficult to solve the puzzle. That sounds like a level of autonomy and social engineering skills that could be concerning to a reasonable person.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/gpt4-openai-chatgpt-taskrabb...

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flagrant_taco says >"How would you define or recognize a level of intelligence or autonomy that is sufficient to raise concerns?"<

If it asks for the right to vote?

Real intelligence will be knowledge that voting is for suckers and the world is run by a congress where the dominant parties are the illuminati and lizard people. Now if an intelligence can determine and conduct the sacred ritual to join the voting pool then we might onto something. But the true test will be when the intelligence again avoids the suckers game and that the world is actually...
Maybe there's something you don't know perhaps?

Here you are, trying to "outthink" an AI and speaking as if you understand (both the AI and the world of politics at the very least)! Isn't that silly!