Re:After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI saf...
by pixl97 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:52PM
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One thing I keep seeing is 'human capabilities'...
Since humans are(?) the smartest things around we keep using ourselves as the benchmark. But what happens if we accidentally create 'alien intelligence'? That is something capable of solving problems but in a way we don't recognize therefore we discount and do not measure it.
Humans get quite surprised by other humans when they do things they didn't think of. I don't think it is beyond reason that machine intelligence could optimize in metrics we don't easily comprehend.
And at the same time, current system definitely have made advances in seeming intelligence. Moreover, the Eliza Effect [1] means it's easy for human being interpret a machine that interacts appropriately as intelligent even given very simple programming. If the engineers were engineering these systems, one would expect some immunity to this but as mentioned, they are doing something subtly different. You can see this in action with the Google engineer who tried to get a lawyer for an unreleased LLM and Geoffrey Hinton's turn to worrying after an AI explained a joke to him might arguably be included.
And oppositely, because these are developed like alchemy, maybe further qualities will just pop up the way transformers changed language models and maybe this will yield all relevant human capacities. I'm doubtful but not as doubtful as I was five years ago.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect