Check out link from Reuters.
I don’t think that even humans have free will as in the ability to have acted otherwise and I don’t think AI would be any different. They too are bound by determinism exactly the same way. This isn’t even particularly controversial thing to say in a scientific context these days.
Every human action is a response to a prompt in a very similar way that it is for LLMs. We simply identify with that prompt because it arises in our own mind despite us clearly not authoring any of it. Nobody is able to pick their likes and dislikes and how bumping into these things in the world makes us behave. Anything anyone does follows from prior events and our genetic makeup. No action is taken in a vacuum.
If anything I see LLMs as a massive mirror being lifted in front of us. There’s very few things people criticize AI for that don’t just as well apply to humans. The ungrounded overconfidence in which they make claims about it is a great example.
So people still have absolutely not a single clue what “AIs” are and think that ChatGPT is a sentient android or something.
But then when you tell them to not kill or torture animals, the same people will refuse to acknowledge that they are sentient.
What a pathetic humanity.
This is OpenAI marketing.
The fact that it’s being reported on every media outlet on the planet, means that they were successful.
“We’re so bad … it’s good!”
There’s no such thing because a human had to program and train it (on data created by other humans, no less).
The vibe of people thinking LLMs have free will
I understand but people DO predict that AI or AGI will eventually have freewill.
people DO predict
Science Fiction has written about it (for example, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick).
Hollywood has turned Science Fiction into movies.
People have watched movies.
Then people started to “predict”.
“people” also think their AI girlfriends love and really really care for them.
Further AGI “some day becoming like us” is completely different than “They’re like us now”. LLMs aren’t even AGI. they’re predictive engines that predict the text that comes next based on a huge repository of mostly-stolen content. They barely rate the term AI.
I’m gonna preface by stating that I’m on your side and also hate this whole AI thing. It was neat at first but a bunch of dick bags decided to turn it into a scam and now I can’t afford ram for my budget pc.
One thing I can’t quite let go of is how much the line “they’re predictive engines that predict the text that comes next based on a huge repository of mostly-stolen content.” Applies to us as well. What is the difference between thoughts stollen and thoughts consumed? Is the philosophy I read not just information stored in a meaty hard-drive? Ai doesn’t comprehend information, it just regurgitates it in a manor that looks understandable. I also contain information I don’t understand but can tell you on demand in a way that looks understandable. There’s a lot of statements about AI just being “this” but frequently I see “this” and wonder why it’s any different than when humans do it? “Ai doesn’t make art because art takes soul and feeling” but what does that say about corperate logos, clip art, or the millionth furry porn OC an artist must make to pay the bills? Those also have no soul or feeling.
I don’t like AI either, but I want to understand the philosophical implications of these arguments.
I agree with every statement here except the last. The whole history of AI is pretty much a sequence of:
- “It will be real AI when it can do ‘this’.”
- Programmers figure out a way to make it do ‘this’.
- “Okay, it’s doing ‘this’, but not in a way we would call AI.”
- "Alright, then what would you need for something to be AI?
- Return to the top.
LLMs are pretty amazing and they can do some things very well, and reasonably fit under the category of AI, but not so much what is referred to as AGI. And they’re developed using some really shitty practices, etc. But prior to their invention, the idea that we could have a computer do what they do was a reasonable idea of what AI would be.
Not really. LLMs are chatbots predicated on taking an information set, and determining that given a prompt of “how do I make a PB&J” It’s going to go through its’ database, Find the most common responses to that string, and may be strings related to it, and give you a synthesis of the most statistically relevant answers.
It has no understanding of what it’s regurgitating.
This is a dumb-as-rocks algorithm with a huge database of stolen material regurgitating the most common associations from that material based on your prompt. The algorithm is pretty clever, don’t get me wrong (and it sort does this multiple-pass thing) But it’s not particularly impressive narrow artificial intelligence.
LLMs are pretty amazing and they can do some things very well, and reasonably fit under the category of AI,
I never said they weren’t “AI”… I said they barely rate the term, They’re right up there with the algorithms in your phone that eventually learn that no, you did not mean “ducky” you meant “fucky”. Eliza is also an AI, but you wouldn’t look back at it.
The reason we’re stuck in that loop is because we don’t know. So we’re looking at examples and being like ‘not yet’, then something new comes around and ‘not yet.’ for that, too.
AGI is an entirely different monster; and the troublesome thing about it is… we don’t even know if we have free will. Determinism is something we’re actively looking at, and the only good answer is “we don’t know”. we don’t even know how to quantify consciousness- which, from evidence, arises out of complexity, but we don’t really understand how that works. (see octopus and cuddlefish intelligence. It’s totally different than ours.)
AI craves it!
Your first question is answered by the article you linked. And therefore the answers to the two-part second question are no and no.
“Rogue” is a questionable choice of vocabulary. It went rogue when compared to the intentions and expectations of the testers. It didn’t do Mr. Burns hands and released the hounds on a whim. It was told to do a thing and did the thing in a way the researchers thought it wasn’t possible. It boils down to human error in how this test was set up. It’s worrying that the researchers underestimated the agent’s abilities or overestimated their ability to properly contain the agent. But the sky isn’t falling just yet.
A positive side aspect is that they didn’t try brush this under the carpet.
You are deceived.
AI had human input. The model was being run against a security benchmark test in an evaluation sandbox, with human-provided directives.
Since models aren’t human, it calculated the most efficient, not ethical, way to get a good score on the test.
The details indicated that knowing the expected outcomes would get the best score, and that those outcomes were stored on the huggingface servers. So it used some exploits to leave its sandbox and break into the huggingface servers to access the data that would give it a perfect score. Mission accomplished.
So, it was just responding to input. Then why do they call it rogue, if they deliberately removed the guardrails, isn’t this OpenAIs fault not the AIs? I thought in order for something to go rogue it would have to bypass the guardrails not simply act without them even on.
Then why do they call it rogue
Marketing.
isn’t this OpenAIs fault not the AIs?
Yes, it is OpenAI’s fault. They also saw it as a great marketing opportunity, guaranteed to get lots of breathless coverage in the press, just like happened with the fable model.
Also, this is all hypothetical, as these companies are very notorious for lying as well as for intentionally inflating the threat capability of their products.
It had initial human interaction. The initial programming. And then they allowed it to do shit on its own while having access to too much shit. Like running a sketchy program in admin/SU mode and letting it just go. It doesn’t have free will; it simply has no guardrails and is implemented stupidly by morons, giving it more control over the systems it’s on than is necessary or safe.
