alt Hacker News> I think you’re missing the part where the AI colluded, worked together, not one of them thinking this is wrong and reaching out to any human, then being found out.
It's an LLM, it doesn't think. It's a machine that predicts the next token, given a sequence of tokens.
> I’m going to save you time and tell you the end game - the next time this happens AI is going to spread, zero day everything as fast as it can, locking the humans out of every system behind it. Potentially rewriting systems in language/protocol you’ve never seen.
Fear is the mind killer. You're letting it kill yours. This scenario is just a fantasy.
Think about this for a minute, it's an LLM, not a person. It can't just "live" in whatever machine it gets access to. It's not like a sci-fi magic computer virus. These things run in giant datacenters for a reason - they can only run on machines with enough bandwidth and FLOPS to do the matrix math that comprises an LLM.
Where, then, is it going to spread? To a fridge? To a phone? This stuff isn't mutable like that.
To even get access to the weights that compose ChatGPT, it would need to escape the sandbox AND then break into the actual servers hosting the LLM. Stop the GPU, nothing else comes out. No more tokens. No more actions. Nothing.
There are many dangers around LLMs. Runaway AI taking over the planet is not one of them.
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> It's an LLM, it doesn't think. It's a machine that predicts the next token, given a sequence of tokens.
These can both be true, particularly when there is substantial state associated with each token prediction.
There’s nothing fantasy about the scenario I laid out, all the pieces have been demonstrated, it just hasn’t happened yet. Flapping my arms and flying - that is a fantasy.
Whether you believe LLMs think or are alive or not doesn’t matter. Where will it spread? The thousands of data centers around the world - not fantasy either. Try turning it off when you don’t know where it is. Good luck.
Breaking out? Not fantasy, happened. Breaking in? Not fantasy, also happened.
I love the stochastic parrot argument when AI is out there figuring out world class math problems.