I don't think so...? Maybe I'm understanding the article wrong? I get the overlay, but I'm being specific to LLM chains... They require something to kick them off, they do not act autonomously. A human does something, types, speaks, presses a button, whatever. A Cron Job firing off is the result of a prior prompt, by a human.
I don't follow the chain further back than that, as I believe humans have free will. I get that that's debated, but thats why I draw the line at human action.
I don't think Free Will is the issue here. My argument is that humans require input to act. We can't test that theory, because there is never been a human being who did not receive input. Everything that we experience from birth through childhood into adulthood is our input and forms our choices about what to do. That includes what the study, who to love, what our hobbies are, what kind of work we pursue.
Oh absolutely. The legal situation is completely clear. AIs simply don't have rights or responsibilities. And the law as it applies to humans is premised on the assumption of free will: that a person can choose to obey the law or not, and bear the responsibility of the consequences.
But that interpretation of Free Will is a legal fiction. Because of course what people do is determined by their upbringing and their opportunities and the environment that they have. In fact, that's an argument of a lot of legal reform movements that seek to move responsibility from the individual. The goal of the law is to assign responsibility and create a set of incentives which will hopefully result in orderly society.
But in the AI debate, we're not just creating incentives for an orderly Society, we're talking about the nature of creativity and the impetus to act. And by that measure I don't think there is a significant difference between AIs and human beings.
Some people get stuck in a rut of a particular kind of thinking and are unable to speculate what would happen if or when a set of conditions occurs.
LeCun is a good example of someone that's bet on the wrong horse, and keeps doubling down in spite of evidence to the contrary. It's to the point where what he says has nearly zero predictive power on future events.
I love playing around with AI, but we are playing a dangerous game at this point and it's one a lot of people don't seem to fully comprehend.
Help those of us who don’t fully comprehend it - explain. Share some sources and materials for the rest of us to gain a better understanding of the dangers.
Why even have an argument if you get to pick the random constraints that have a lot of issues in meshing with reality.
We are a chain that started 4 billion years ago from seemingly nothing and lead to this point. When inventing X-risk AI it won't look any different. One prompt is entered and another 4 billion year chain starts electronically instead of biologically.
Why draw the line at the person with the brain capable of free thought, instead of their great great great grandparents? Am I understanding your question correctly?
I'm pretty sure the initial post said "humans had to prompt", or otherwise insinuate a human in the loop.
Right. Even when an LLM prompts an LLM, what prompted the first one in the chain?
You are describing the " unmoved mover", an argument for the existence of God
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmoved_mover
I don't think so...? Maybe I'm understanding the article wrong? I get the overlay, but I'm being specific to LLM chains... They require something to kick them off, they do not act autonomously. A human does something, types, speaks, presses a button, whatever. A Cron Job firing off is the result of a prior prompt, by a human.
I don't follow the chain further back than that, as I believe humans have free will. I get that that's debated, but thats why I draw the line at human action.
I don't think Free Will is the issue here. My argument is that humans require input to act. We can't test that theory, because there is never been a human being who did not receive input. Everything that we experience from birth through childhood into adulthood is our input and forms our choices about what to do. That includes what the study, who to love, what our hobbies are, what kind of work we pursue.
Legally, we draw the line at the human causing the action (Insanity pleas withstanding). I don't see why we treat this any differently.
Oh absolutely. The legal situation is completely clear. AIs simply don't have rights or responsibilities. And the law as it applies to humans is premised on the assumption of free will: that a person can choose to obey the law or not, and bear the responsibility of the consequences.
But that interpretation of Free Will is a legal fiction. Because of course what people do is determined by their upbringing and their opportunities and the environment that they have. In fact, that's an argument of a lot of legal reform movements that seek to move responsibility from the individual. The goal of the law is to assign responsibility and create a set of incentives which will hopefully result in orderly society.
But in the AI debate, we're not just creating incentives for an orderly Society, we're talking about the nature of creativity and the impetus to act. And by that measure I don't think there is a significant difference between AIs and human beings.
Some people get stuck in a rut of a particular kind of thinking and are unable to speculate what would happen if or when a set of conditions occurs.
LeCun is a good example of someone that's bet on the wrong horse, and keeps doubling down in spite of evidence to the contrary. It's to the point where what he says has nearly zero predictive power on future events.
I love playing around with AI, but we are playing a dangerous game at this point and it's one a lot of people don't seem to fully comprehend.
Help those of us who don’t fully comprehend it - explain. Share some sources and materials for the rest of us to gain a better understanding of the dangers.
>I don't follow the chain further back than that
Why even have an argument if you get to pick the random constraints that have a lot of issues in meshing with reality.
We are a chain that started 4 billion years ago from seemingly nothing and lead to this point. When inventing X-risk AI it won't look any different. One prompt is entered and another 4 billion year chain starts electronically instead of biologically.
Why draw the line at the person with the brain capable of free thought, instead of their great great great grandparents? Am I understanding your question correctly?