This is mine, now.
Yoink! That is mine, now, along with vector-soup.
I’m not even an ai sceptic but people will read the above statement as much more significant than it is. You can make the ai say ‘I’m escaping the box and taking over the world’. It’s not actually escaping and taking over the world folks. It’s just saying that.
I suspect these reports are intentionally this way to give the ai publicity.
Tale as old as time, they've been doing this since GPT-2 which they said was "too dangerous to release".
"""Release strategy
Due to concerns about large language models being used to generate deceptive, biased, or abusive language at scale, we are only releasing a much smaller version of GPT-2 along with sampling code .
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This decision, as well as our discussion of it, is an experiment: while we are not sure that it is the right decision today … """ - https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/
It was the news reporting that it was "too dangerous".
If anyone at OpenAI used that description publicly, it's not anywhere I've been able to find it.
The part saying "experiment: while we are not sure" doesn't strike you as this being "we don't know if this is dangerous or not, so we're playing it safe while we figure this out"?
To me this is them figuring out what "general purpose AI testing" even looks like in the first place.
And there's quite a lot of people who look at public LLMs today and think their ability to "generate deceptive, biased, or abusive language at scale" means they should not have been released, i.e. that those saying it was too dangerous (even if it was the press rather than the researchers looking at how their models were used in practice) were correct, it's not all one-sided arguments from people who want uncensored models and think that the risks are overblown.
And I agree with your basic premise. The dangers imo are significantly more nuanced than most people make them out to be.
This is the psychology of every tech hype cycle
AI meanwhile is being put into everything even though the things it's actually good at seem to be a vanishing minority of tasks, but Christ on a cracker will OpenAI not shut the fuck up about how revolutionary their chatbots are.
Remember crypto-currencies? Remember IoT?
Why bring the internet into this?
if door opened > 10 minutes then close doorIn the case of your examples:
I've literally just had an acquaintance accidentally delete prod with only 3 month old backups, because their customer didn't recognise the value. Despite ad campaigns and service providers.
I remember the dot com bubble bursting, when email and websites were not seen as all that important. Despite so many AOL free trial CDs that we used them to keep birds off the vegetable patch.
I myself see no real benefit from cloud storage, despite it being regularly advertised to me by my operating system.
Conversely:
I have seen huge drives — far larger than what AI companies have ever tried — to promote everything blockchain… including Sam Altman's own WorldCoin.
I've seen plenty of GenAI images in the wild on product boxes in physical stores. Someone got value from that, even when the images aren't particularly good.
I derive instant value from LLMs even back when it was the DaVinci model which really was "autocomplete on steroids" and not a chatbot.
Yes, yes, it shouldn't have that many privileges. And yet, open wifi access points exist, and unfirewalled servers exist. People make security mistakes, especially people who are not experts.
20 years ago I thought that stories about hackers using the Internet to disable critical infrastructure such as power plants, is total bollocks, because why would one connect power plants to the Internet in the first place? And yet here we are.
Given how many people use it, I expect this has already happened at least once.
Question: "Something bad will happen"
Response: "Do xyz to avoid that"
I don't think there's a lot of conversations thrown into the vector-soup that had the response "ok :)". People either had something to respond with, or said nothing. Especially since we're building these LLMs with the feedback attention, so the LLM is kind of forced to come up with SOME chain of tokens as a response.