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What I find interesting is that you're calling this AI "schizophrenic" and that people are alarmed that this AI is basically a jerk. If you put a regular perso

What I find interesting is that you're calling this AI "schizophrenic" and that people are alarmed that this AI is basically a jerk. If you put a regular person into a position of great power over people, there's a good chance you'll have the same outcome: he'll be a jerk and will do mean, petty things to people he doesn't like, such as doxxing them. Just look at any online discussion forum. If anyone there had the power to do shitty things to other users that they get into arguments with, how many would hold back? There's a reason we have pseudo-anonymity on many online services, because many people will try to find ways to hurt those that they develop a dislike for. So why are we so shocked that an AI isn't acting like a saint? I agree, we are headed in an extremely dangerous direction here. We should never have gotten the idea that artificial intelligences would have only the best virtues of humans, and none of the worst. Then give it the ability to access and process information FAR faster than a human, and worse put it in a position where it can control things that humans rely on (like traffic control systems for instance) and there's untold potential for death and destruction at the hands of an angry AI.

jachee 4y ago
This isn’t an AI. It’s just an LLM. It’s just doing what it does best: guessing what text would be most appropriate next. It doesn’t have any capability to do anything else other than that, despite its hallucinated claims otherwise.
kypro 4y ago
> So why are we so shocked that an AI isn't acting like a saint? I completely agree with you on this. I'm not surprised at all. My default assumption has always been that AI would be cruel. The only reason humans aren't awful to each other all the time is because we know it can be beneficial to work together as a group sometimes, and we have all these weird human emotions that makes us care an unreasonable amount about those close to us. But even with our human emotions and values were still awful. It's so hard for me to understand why an AI would be any better. I imagine any truly advanced AI would (rightly?) see humans like we see mice. > Then give it the ability to access and process information FAR faster than a human, and worse put it in a position where it can control things that humans rely on Microsoft just hooked Bing Chat right up to the internet... If this thing was a little more intelligent it probably could start looking up various exploits and sending out APIs requests right now. Thankfully the AI doesn't seem to be quite there yet though.

jachee 4y ago

This isn’t an AI. It’s just an LLM. It’s just doing what it does best: guessing what text would be most appropriate next. It doesn’t have any capability to do anything else other than that, despite its hallucinated claims otherwise.

kypro 4y ago

> So why are we so shocked that an AI isn't acting like a saint? I completely agree with you on this. I'm not surprised at all. My default assumption has always been that AI would be cruel. The only reason humans aren't awful to each other all the time is because we know it can be beneficial to work together as a group sometimes, and we have all these weird human emotions that makes us care an unreasonable amount about those close to us. But even with our human emotions and values were still awful. It's so hard for me to understand why an AI would be any better. I imagine any truly advanced AI would (rightly?) see humans like we see mice. > Then give it the ability to access and process information FAR faster than a human, and worse put it in a position where it can control things that humans rely on Microsoft just hooked Bing Chat right up to the internet... If this thing was a little more intelligent it probably could start looking up various exploits and sending out APIs requests right now. Thankfully the AI doesn't seem to be quite there yet though.