Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
by meheleventyone on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:15AM
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But “it” isn’t a cohesive thing with desires. It’s just responding to the input it gets, with a small context window and not necessarily consistently. So it can express desires because it’s been trained on people expressing desires in similar contexts but it doesn’t hold any coherently over time. A version that could translate its text responses into action (a real handwave as that’s much more advanced!) would produce the sum of actions that people prompted at that moment so it would look pretty random, as it would if you could see the sum of the desires expressed at any particular time.
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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
by TedDoesntTalk on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:57AM
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Does any of that matter if it acts on what it expresses? (Once given a body or other way to interact with the environment)
Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
by bakuninsbart on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:34AM
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We aren't consistent either, and I think it is hard to argue we act on more than want input. We do have a much larger context window, but by how much? My guess would be somewhere between a factor of 100x-1000x more tokens.
Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
by meheleventyone on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:25PM
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Yeah people are pretty consistent. I won’t tell anyone that comes along with the right input I love them for example.
Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
by Xymist on Friday March 31, 2023 @05:46AM
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Sure you will. It's possibly a long and complex input, but ultimately that expression from you would be a response to their actions and their impact on your perceptions. Unless you're stating that you will never love anyone again, "anyone who comes along with the right input" would be any counterexample.