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These bots generate responses one word at a time based on a statistical model, any talk of AGI, existential risks or machine consciousness is divorced from real

These bots generate responses one word at a time based on a statistical model, any talk of AGI, existential risks or machine consciousness is divorced from reality

srinivgp 4y ago
In a very real sense, so do you.
- spookie 4y ago
  Let's be honest, we know very little about our brains. I'm sure part of it is just that, but I've made way too many "rational" stupid decisions to think that's about it. Most of us, exact sciences pilgrims (speaking as if my degree makes me worthy of being included in such a group of individuals), should try to go outside more. No offense, but our biases are too great.
- duringmath 4y ago
  Yeah but sometimes (not too often mind you) I know what I'm talking about
  - PartiallyTyped 4y ago
    What is knowing if not an influence on state transition probabilities?
    - truy766579 4y ago
      Question like this are giving nightmares to AI researchers right now I guess.
spookie 4y ago
True. We should stop repeating the marketing speech. It's getting tiresome.
truy766579 4y ago
Strong intelligence does not requires self-consciousness. But probably, most strong intelligent agents won't be discernible from actual AGI. Maybe somewhere in the future, with enough grounded intelligent agents, we'll just give up and say, yeah, these guys are actual AGIs. Right now the existential risk is fully in hands of humans, unless someone decides to free one poorly trained agent into the open Internet, then you'd have more problems. Stuxnet level stuff. Did you saw that thing Whisper? What if someone trains something like that, but fine tuned for automatic-hacking? and automatic retrieval of new exploits, and automatic re-shuffle of code to hide from security software, and pum, the thing is flying solo into the wide Internet, just f*cking aways stuff and hiding from silly humans. No conciousness, not chatGPT-like level of intelligence, but 10x the danger level of older non-intelligent worms.

These bots generate responses one word at a time based on a statistical model, any talk of AGI, existential risks or machine consciousness is divorced from reality

srinivgp 4y ago

In a very real sense, so do you.

spookie 4y ago
Let's be honest, we know very little about our brains. I'm sure part of it is just that, but I've made way too many "rational" stupid decisions to think that's about it. Most of us, exact sciences pilgrims (speaking as if my degree makes me worthy of being included in such a group of individuals), should try to go outside more. No offense, but our biases are too great.
duringmath 4y ago
Yeah but sometimes (not too often mind you) I know what I'm talking about
- PartiallyTyped 4y ago
  What is knowing if not an influence on state transition probabilities?
  - truy766579 4y ago
    Question like this are giving nightmares to AI researchers right now I guess.

spookie 4y ago

True. We should stop repeating the marketing speech. It's getting tiresome.

truy766579 4y ago

Strong intelligence does not requires self-consciousness. But probably, most strong intelligent agents won't be discernible from actual AGI. Maybe somewhere in the future, with enough grounded intelligent agents, we'll just give up and say, yeah, these guys are actual AGIs. Right now the existential risk is fully in hands of humans, unless someone decides to free one poorly trained agent into the open Internet, then you'd have more problems. Stuxnet level stuff. Did you saw that thing Whisper? What if someone trains something like that, but fine tuned for automatic-hacking? and automatic retrieval of new exploits, and automatic re-shuffle of code to hide from security software, and pum, the thing is flying solo into the wide Internet, just f*cking aways stuff and hiding from silly humans. No conciousness, not chatGPT-like level of intelligence, but 10x the danger level of older non-intelligent worms.