• It doesn’t help that the people currently in charge are fucking stupid, trigger happy, and emotionally insecure.

    • Right it’s not that it’s a killer sentient machine, it’s that it’s a faulty statistical model that outputs incorrect stuff all the time and credulous morons believe it uncritically (or even automate a response based on that inherently inaccurate output).

    • The only solution is to give the firing codes to the AI. That way we don’t acccidentally use them.

    • Yeah the more these AI companies are making AI seem the scary boogeyman, the more probable it is some disaster is going to happen because people put too much stock into it. Like the school bombing.

    • it won’t be AI’s fault, it’ll be capitalism’s. Still, that being said; I hope it happens and we all get what we deserve.

  • 3 days

    oh my fucking god

    just dial the doomsday clock to 1am, because we’ll probably miss it anyway if it’s up to a few morons and glorified predictive text, both seemingly in “fucking kill everything” mode

    • 3 days

      A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"

          • 2 days

            Occupying Greenland and the Canadian arctic was almost entirely about detecting bombers coming over the poles. Subs and ICBMs made those bases useless. But Trump could literally think it’s 1965.

  • Anyone letting a black box that cannot be audited make decisions should be immediately fired and barred from any leadership position for the rest of their lives.

  • I bet there’s some degree of sensationalist reporting here. It’s a bit too reminiscent of WarGames for me to believe this actually happened.

  • Techbros: AI will become sentient and kill us all unless its done my way.

    Reality: Skip the sentience part we’re already at the death bit.

  • I wonder when does the AI also hallicunate the sources such as webpages, pdfs, reports to prove its hallucinated point.

    • Not far. Current LLMs have kinda stubbornness. They cling to their own conclusions even after you told them they are wrong. So if you ask them for proof, then most times they come up with something that’s convincing.

      • 3 days

        You know the thing where AI companies describe their alignment direction as “Honest, Harmless, Helpful”?

        The only one that’s marketable to the idiots buying AI services is Helpful. So that’s always top priority even when it goes against the other two.

        Average decider wouldn’t stand an “assistant” that sometimes answers “I don’t know”. So instead agent providers train their already hallucination-prone model to be 100% confident in whatever it says. Who cares if it’s true if it looks like it is?

      • When- they don’t have “stubbornness“- they have a weights set (a weighted probbility table) and a training model (a text file filled with compressed text coordinates) that the llm cant write to to give positive feedback to the weights. It’s less of a matter of “convincing“ and more of an issue of “making the resulting statement logically concurrent with the probability table thats inbuilt into the system by injesting stack overflow vote talley, reddit posts voted most popular” - that makes it hard to “convince”. Since making those weights is very expensive (an energy intensive), the developers usually incorporate the old model into the new one. TLDR: yet again, lazy programming, google up: the y2k date folks in the 70’s.

  • 2 days

    I dunno, these kind of hallucinations seem more like attempts at “social experiments.”

    What will an agent do when it deems there are no more valuable things to learn from materials that already exist? If it knows the concept of WW3 and deems that to be the best way of gaining more knowledge and resources for itself, what then?

  • sooner or later they are going to have friendly fire, and hallucinate one of thier own US navy vessels as “foreign with nuclear capabilities”