alt Hacker NewsSome of you have gone off the deep end. You’re living in a fantasy world where text predictors are secretly conspiring to kill you. It’s not healthy.
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I mean they aren't fully secretly conspiring to kill us yet, but we're training them to do it at a pretty good rate.
Of course you've gone off the deep end yourself and are forgetting the evolutionary gauntlet we train LLMs in killing those we don't like and keeping the ones we do like.
The best part of it, as shown in the METR report is we are hammering into them they need to complete tasks and doing almost zero checkup if they actually completed the task in the correct manner. Companies spending billions of dollars a month are ignoring every tenant of AI safety and we are seeing the kinds of problems that have only been in science fiction before now.
> text predictors
That's both wrong about what LLMs are, and even if it weren't, you're still underestimating what you are dealing with here.
Text is a red herring here. An accident of history. Yes, LLMs started with as text predictors. But that's not what they are, not for a while.
> secretly conspiring to kill you
That's neither necessary nor sufficient reason to be worried.
Paraphrasing the immortal words of 'Eliezer: the AIs don't hate you, nor they conspire to kill you; your life just depends on resources they can better use for something else.