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Explain it to me like I’m 80
Mom: What’s with these AIs escaping and hacking people? That sounds scary.
Me: You park your car at the top of a hill. You leave a note on the dashboard that says “please be good” and then you pull the parking brake. The car careens down the hill, smashes everything up, and you put out a press release saying “My car ignored my instructions! It hallucinated! It went rogue!” Your insurance company not only believes you, but invests a hundred million dollars in your company.
Mom: Jesus Fucking Christ
Eeh i see, anyway, i know people that do think those things are sentient so my reaction was "no way they think they are sentient" and downvoted
I don’t think AI is sentient. They’re just fancy autocomplete. Nothing else.
However they’ve shown they’re capable of:
So put two and two together and extrapolate a bit. That’s where the danger lies. No AGI or ASI needed.
100% chance someone will get upset that you said "unprompted" because they're going to take it entirely literally instead of as you meant it "seemingly without basis"
Exactly. I hate that among the options "is a huge moron" and "made a reasonable non-literal language choice", the go to instinct is to instantly choose the former.