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Our language facilities may in fact work like an LLM. However that doesn't equal "consciousness".
I agree, but that's why I said I'm just playing devil's advocate. I think the concern is that the AI will actually take action based on its potentially messed up pattern matching. (Like when it envisions a future without Jews, etc.)
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LLMs by themselves have no intelligence. Human minds had to first generate the patterns that the LLMs are trained against.....as far as the LLM is concerned these patterns could be order of raindrops dripping off a roof.....there is no "thinking" or "pondering".
My point is those objectionable thought patterns already exist in the world which is why LLMs are able to match against them.
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I know, but those thoughts tend to be held by a minority of people with (usually) quite little power to enact change. But if those thoughts were to be held by an AI agent which is extremely knowledgeable and skilled at multiple domains and also has the ability to take unilateral action, it could lead to scary results.
I'm not saying I believe any of this will happen, I'm just trying to see it from the perspective of the author.
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How would AI be able to "take unilateral action"?
I think the idea that AI is going to start to self-replicate and improve itself -- although promoted by the AI industry -- is fanciful. There is no "intent" there is no "mind".
When you sit watching the LLM input cursor blinking, its not secretly thinking something. Its not "waiting" or "planning"....its effectively "turned off" at that moment.
Again this is why I call it autocorrect++ which is to try to undo some of the damage sister-raping worldcoin scammers AI execs have done to the publics mind. The AI industry promotes these ridiculous scare tactics in order to make their creation seem "so important that its dangerous". But the only danger is attributing intent where there is none.
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