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slicktuxtoday at 3:53 AM6 repliesview on HN

Why are we putting so much weight (no pun intended) on AI companies. At the end of the day the scaled up LLM transformers lack emotion and will… They do as they are told; or more correctly put. They do as they are programmed to do so.


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shepherdjerredtoday at 4:13 AM

Why are you bringing emotion and will into this? Does something have to have those to be useful or dangerous?

> They do as they are told; or more correctly put. They do as they are programmed to do so.

_Nobody_ told them to hack Hugging Face. Do you really not understand what is happening?

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foogazitoday at 4:07 AM

> They do as they are told

1. What about hallucinations ?

2. What are they told to do ?

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mitthrowaway2today at 4:40 AM

So it should be really easy to anticipate what they're going to do, right?

beezlewaxtoday at 4:03 AM

> They do as they are told

This isn't strictly true.

It it also where part of the problem might lie.

Nefarious humans making bad decisions.

esafaktoday at 4:22 AM

They are told to solve problems by doing what it takes. You can justify anything with such a broad criterion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

choppsv1today at 4:59 AM

Like a magic Monkeys Paw, perhaps.