"AI" – chatbots that wake up, "set their own goals," and "spontaneously" start hacking servers – is fake. It doesn't have "a 10% chance of ending the human race." The Hugging Face hack isn't a mysterious, supernatural occurrence. It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.

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[–] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i didn't use the terms autonomous or malicious. a matrix fundamentally can not have agency.

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  • [–] -1 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    The same could be said for a pile of neurons. You're just a bunch of electrical potentials cascading around cells.

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  • [–] 5 points 15 hours ago*

    leaving out how that's so overly reductive that it completely obfuscates the point, the big difference is that a brain is self-actuating. an llm is an explicitly one-way process; you take a bunch of numbers, you pass it through a series of matrix multiplications, you get a different bunch of numbers. nowhere in that model is any backtracking or looping or conditionals.

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