Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re...
by pixl97 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @04:12PM
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ChatGPT isn't an ASI.
This said, ChatGPT with a plugin is potentially dangerous. We are lucky enough that it gets caught in loops pretty easily and stops when using tools.
But lets imagine a super intelligence that can only communicate over the internet, what can it accomplish? Are there places you can sign up for banking accounts without a physical presence? If so, then it could open accounts and move money. Money is the ultimate form of instrumental convergence
Once you have money you can buy things, like more time on AWS. Or machine parts from some factory in China, or assembly in Mexico. None of these require an in person presence and yet real items exist because of the digital actions. At the end of the day money is all you need, and being super intelligent seems like a good path on figuring out ways to get it.
Oh, lets go even deeper in to things that aren't real and control. Are religions real? If a so called super intelligence can make up its own religion and get believers it becomes the 'follow AGI blindly' scenario you give. It gives me no more comfort that someone could wrap themselves in a bomb vest for a digital voice than it does when they do so for a human one.
This said, ChatGPT with a plugin is potentially dangerous. We are lucky enough that it gets caught in loops pretty easily and stops when using tools.
But lets imagine a super intelligence that can only communicate over the internet, what can it accomplish? Are there places you can sign up for banking accounts without a physical presence? If so, then it could open accounts and move money. Money is the ultimate form of instrumental convergence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeecOKBus3Q (Robert Miles)
Once you have money you can buy things, like more time on AWS. Or machine parts from some factory in China, or assembly in Mexico. None of these require an in person presence and yet real items exist because of the digital actions. At the end of the day money is all you need, and being super intelligent seems like a good path on figuring out ways to get it.
Oh, lets go even deeper in to things that aren't real and control. Are religions real? If a so called super intelligence can make up its own religion and get believers it becomes the 'follow AGI blindly' scenario you give. It gives me no more comfort that someone could wrap themselves in a bomb vest for a digital voice than it does when they do so for a human one.