deformedexile t1_jebv49v wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:46 PM

Reply to comment by DATCO-BERLIN in What if ai woke up and saw our current state? by lifeislikeaboxof420

This depends on one of the following two assumptions:

AI is no smarter than its masters (i.e. can be controlled by a human will) or 2) AI has no independent will.

IMO, 1 is a time-limited proposition, and 2 is The Question.

Zaflis t1_jebxm93 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 10:02 PM

What you describe is not artificial general intelligence but just a neural network or some script.

deformedexile t1_jec3hll wrote on March 30, 2023 at 10:44 PM

And what you think of as a human being is just a giant haphazardly assembled confederation of cells with no originating principal apart from self-replication.

Zaflis t1_jedlrru wrote on March 31, 2023 at 6:34 AM

A flower too is a haphazardly assembled confederation then, but it has traits we think are fascinating. We simply have more of them. Much.. more.

deformedexile t1_jee1y3w wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:23 AM

My point is that everything you think is special about humans fell out of nothing but descent with modification. Meanwhile, LLMs have actually had facility with language designed into them. It should not be a surprise for LLMs to acquire some abilities with which they were not intentionally endowed, since we have, and the LLMs were intentionally endowed with so much more. And in fact, they already have acquired some abilities with which they were not intentionally endowed.