LLMs have gained emergent new abilities at every generation. No one programmed those in or even expected them to appear, they arose spontaneously with larger co

LLMs have gained emergent new abilities at every generation. No one programmed those in or even expected them to appear, they arose spontaneously with larger computation resources. "The AI developed new abilities we didn't intend or anticipate" sure sounds to me like the kinds of dangers AI alignment researchers have been theorizing for years. We've only begun to build multimodal systems; GPT-4 already exhibits improved ability when trained with images vs without. It isn't "crank science" at all. Despite their mockery and personal insults and dismissive handwaving, no AI capability-pusher has yet made a convincing argument why an entity with extremely strong cognitive powers would not be capable of transforming its surrounding environment on unprecedented scale. The closest one we've heard is "we just won't be able to make AI very smart." Which wishfully will be true, but we're about to spin up multiple Apollo-programs trying to prove that it isn't.