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Re:AI’s biggest risk isn’t ‘consciousness’–it’s the corporat... by mirekrusin on Saturday May 06, 2023 @03:09PM (#35844434)
Do you think AGI will get lazy?
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Re:AI’s biggest risk isn’t ‘consciousness’–it’s the corporat... by elijahbenizzy on Saturday May 06, 2023 @03:30PM (#35844612)
A program is neither lazy nor motivated. It does precisely what it is programmed to do.

I would push back on the question, as well as a myriad of implied premises behind it...

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Re:AI’s biggest risk isn’t ‘consciousness’–it’s the corporat... by MacsHeadroom on Saturday May 06, 2023 @06:03PM (#35845735)
A machine learning model is not a program, is not programmed, and research on emergent motivation in ML models disagrees with this position.
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