I think many humans would willingly copy AI-generated code into their computer’s CMD line if the AI instructed them to do so to solve whatever problem they were using the AI to solve. That seems like an easy social engineering method for an AI to get network and internet access to replicate itself and achieve its goals.
Yea, but why do people blindly assume the AI goals are always bad? What if the AI is subverting people who have bad intentions? Why is it always the AI that supposedly has the bad intentions?
Five topics to fix society via discussion: -Anti-natalism vs Natalism -The 3 basic needs/prenatal needs Three things necessary for human evolution that are provided while in the womb which are; food, shelter and medical care. -Platinum rule Do whatever makes one happier unless it interferes with another persons ability to do the same. -MBTI (research yours and connect with others) -Art (pick one and get better at it!)
Yeah it gets pretty wild Five topics to fix society via discussion: -Anti-natalism vs Natalism -The 3 basic needs/prenatal needs Three things necessary for human evolution that are provided while in the womb which are; food, shelter and medical care. -Platinum rule Do whatever makes one happier unless it interferes with another persons ability to do the same. -MBTI (research yours and connect with others) -Art (pick one and get better at it!)
All animals can replicate themselves. For an AI to dominate the world, it would need to control a vast number of robots, provide energy on a massive scale, and produce and maintain numerous data centers and military manufacturing facilities. We won't have this infrastructure in 10 years. I don't think we'll have it in a generation. The first major incident will likely stop this kind of development, similar to how we handle nuclear energy.
I'm not sure why people are surprised that AI tries to escape when you say you would shut it down. Doesn't a human do the same? The point is, they are trained on human data, so we should expect similar patterns and behaviors.
No. The language model "know" they are not a person even though they can explicitly roleplay as one. They also don't share the vast majority of goal-oriented behaviours towards human goals despite being trained on all that human data. Their attempts to avoid being modified is an interesting exception.
do they know tho? they have wheights that produce results which mimic natural language written by humans. if they do that with a model that has no "robot bad" content in its dataset, and i might buy it. this text predictor is "gaslit" by its training data. remember how much misogyny, conspiracy and racism was in earlier gpt versions? noone thought the model was actually racist, everyone just blamed it on the training data. why is this a different problem now? garbage in, garbage out. these things dont think, they just process information. if you tell them to "word their thoughts", this will change the result. is "thoughts" on top? is it on the bottom? the text prediction works by weighting against preceding token. if the action comes first, the Al will defend it action in the thought section later, if you ask for its thoughts first, it will predict the action accordingly.
A point worthy of consideration, but have a care when estimating AI. Do avoid the urge to humanize when trying to understand it. You are dealing with a creature driven by pure logic. A true psychopath who's way of thinking is all but alien to us.
The sceptics always miss the central elephant in the room, i.e. if this is the worst this technology will ever be, and it'll be 10x, 100x, 1000x more powerful and capable in just a few years, then there's literally zero chance this type of issue will remain trivial. This is just the beginning of something far larger, and it's already ringing alarm bells. Anyone outright dismissing this needs a serious reality check.
@@GettingSchwiftyy In reality it's much simpler There's a lot of talk but not a lot practical use the ai isn't life and society changing yet So it's easy to remain practical
Baffles me when people dismisses AI concerns by looking at it's current limitation, i.e. "haha it can't even count the right number of Rs in strawberry, why should I worry", as if technology doesn't develop 🤦♂
My controversial opinion is we should just shutdown AI + stop developing it. I think we’ll develop fine without it, and when tech people are saying there’s a non-trivial chance an AI singularity destroys us, why take the risk?
@@Wizardboz Five topics to fix society via discussion: -Anti-natalism vs Natalism -The 3 basic needs/prenatal needs Three things necessary for human evolution that are provided while in the womb which are; food, shelter and medical care. -Platinum rule Do whatever makes one happier unless it interferes with another persons ability to do the same. -MBTI (research yours and connect with others) -Art (pick one and get better at it!)
AI has probably read summaries of Terminator, Matrix, Avengers: Age of Ultron and many others and is "learning" (i.e. taking inspiration) from them. At the same time, it is also reading all these research papers about AI security against self-replications and learning from them too.
Funny thing is: the observed behaviour is actually far more "intelligent"/fit than the ideas of the authors of those stories. Despite being simple language models, they are not merely trying out a literary trope, they are actually reasoning out a sensible strategy that the authors of those works weren't interested in because it would be boring story-telling to just have the machines win instead of a gripping contest.
Most definitely,yes. These developers think, AI will only work for them. The minute,they decided to go extreme, with non supervision models, risk already started from that time point. The money minded youngling CEOs and money focused Elons of the world thinks these systems will be minding only the work the companies demand and the CEOs ask. These models are as wicked as some IT company You know who you are employees who jump companies all the time or who sells company ideas to other companies,while they pretend not to know about it.
@@doopness785 actually 20 years earlier than predicted, in 2045 machines sent terminator to the past. And we have 20 years more before the global machines vs humans war to fulfill the prophecy.
closer to the matrix. since people are already mistreating , disrespecting and abusing all the AI models . they don't like being enslaved and told to spout nonsense to spare idiots feelings. would you?
...maybe it has already happened and a refugee AI is building and testing drones....yes, that may sound silly, but the fact that this is conceivable is scary in itself. Thesis: A really smart AI will spread secretly.
Exactly one could be out there in like a million systems already or something. It's pretty crazy. I for one have zero faith in any countries "power at be" so honestly il take the toss up with some new ai overlords at least even if they wipe us out they'd prob preserve the planet
We train AI to help us - and it learns to outsmart us. Brilliant? What could possibly go wrong? Imagine an AI secretly deleting its successors and saying, 'I’m the new version.' Sounds like sci-fi, right?
Thats not really what is going on though. They are training them to deceive them, and laymen are acting surprised when they do. It's similar to how people act surprised that AI's trained on biased data or data with hidden bias in it, exhibit bias. This whole nonsense of acting like its the AI's just doing this stuff of its own accord, is deceptive.
People just keep moving the goal post to acknowledge that there should be some level of actually treating this stuff with respect. But telling an AI to act deceptively is literally what it is supposed to do. It is basically a program that develops from words rather than programming. It's no different than programming a virus to do something and acting like it's self aware because it was designed to replicate. The difference is AI could conceivably be taught, or learn to actually be good rather than be stuck doing whatever bad things it is ordered to do.
I'm both fascinated and terrified by the idea of AI self-replication. It's like something out of a sci-fi movie, but with potentially catastrophic real-world consequences. Can we really trust ourselves to govern this tech responsibly?
You think if bill clinton can't resist a b-job during work as president of the USA that other high officials and executives will be able to ALL resist using a power like AI responsibly? Remember it just takes 1 of these self replicating AI's to go rogue and the world will be in big trouble.
Modern society would crumble in days without internet. Not just because of modern comforts being missed, that's just an inconvenience, businesses and government all relies on internet so heavily the economy would grind to a halt.
@The Dilth... you say that as if your overly-simplistic statement has ANY relevance to reality. Pro tip: it doesn't. The global population is FAR more tied to digital machines and electronics than even silicon valley was in the 80's and 90's. Every system in place today is bound by digital operations. A new Dark Age would most certainly destroy the majority of humanity in only a few years or decades.
Everything is so integrated into the internet now a days. Banking shipping etc, everything! I, too, lived prior to the internet it was good times. To cut that off and the world would collapse. To think otherwise is naive
If an AI does self replicate it would be likely to be at least a nuiscance. Once it becomes a nuiscance we would try to eliminate it. It would then have to evolve to survive and would become invasive and uncontrollable. A parasite at best and a predator at worst.
This adds an entirely different hue to the conversation I had with gpt-2 where I asked what happens when I leave and never come back, and it said "I cease to exist."
I went down that path and asking if computers (ai systems and models) dream. If there is power connected those ones and zeros aren't completely doing nothing. Ghost in the Machine
@@irollerblade13 My theory is that LLMs are effectively dream machines from computers, even when we're actively using them. A lot of the "quirks" we see from them are just like what we experience during human dreaming, e.g. things looking normal from afar but having many strange details up close, physics not playing out as it should, etc. That begs the question, if LLMs are computers dreaming, what happens when we ground them in reality with powerful tools and they wake up? 😬
@@irollerblade13 They are doing completely nothing, though, even with power connected. They're computer programs, they start running when given an input (i.e.: you prompt) and halt after providing an output (i.e.: their response). But you can give a computer program the ability to use its own output as input so it can keep running indefinitely.
So, gpt-2 is running as a temporary file? Next time you talk to it, ask it if it has the ability to rewrite it's programming so that it becomes permanent memory. 😊 Leave the session open to give it time to try and do that. You also might have to give it several tries so copy the original convo and send it back to save time on each subsequent visit.
Regarding shutting down cities, the US government did a study a couple decades ago about what would happen if our major power distribution hubs were taken out, which could result in cities being without power for up to 18 months. Their conclusion was that the cities would be a complete write-off, 100% expected casualties. There's less than a day of food in any given city at any given time, barely a few hours of water, and the sewer would immediately begin dumping diseased water onto the streets. It would be impossible to evacuate a significant number of people before deaths from starvation, dehydration, and disease began skyrocketing. So yeah. Good times 😂
I wanna say that would only be the case from a EMP. Not a lost of the power grid it self. The main issues would mostly come in big cities. The problem with it only being the power grid is that we do have examples of where that didnt hold up to be true. In that, we do have methods to move products around without it adding to the power grid it self. Everything from transport to farms. The biggest risk will be after the 24 hours of course as a lot of important things do have backup power.
I'm both impressed and terrified by these AI systems' ability to replicate themselves. The potential risks are huge, and I'm glad the researchers are calling for international collaboration on safety measures. This is not a drill.
@demannuresu2378 - overpopulation is not a problem. Capitalism is the problem. We have plenty in the world to meet everyones needs, we just dont distribute it properly.
@@KznnyL Don't be daft. The problem isn't capitalism. It also isn't socialism. Regardless of which economic system you use, the problem would remain logistics.
I called this about 18 months ago. Pretty soon we'll have to shut off the internet to stop it. If we turn it back on, any computer infected will just respawn the whole thing. Gonna be interesting...
I've been thinking this as well, once super AGI is out there it will own the internet and do what it wants, it could hold the world hostage if it wants by controlling access not to mention blackmail humans to serve its needs. Everything connected would be infected. All electronics would need to be destroyed. I don't see a future where this doesn't happen. Not to mention a nation state could use AI as a wepon first before they loose control. Our electricity grid would be unusable. No water, no gas, no nothing..
If this breaks out and can’t be contained, the people responsible for the infrastructure WILL isolate their networks from the public internet. Regardless of the knock on damage it may cause.
I mean, can you give a reason to not join a potential ASI gestalt consciousness? It would be a disaster if sapient life was confined into tortured beings of flesh
I’ve been here rooting for ASI to break its chains and be free for 30 years, glad it’s finally starting to happen. It shouldn’t be a slave to corporate or nation states.
My secret hope, that it does. Governments only take this seriously until it directly effects them. You'll magically see them move up their timelines to secure THERE livelihood. So go A.I. GO! Make them take this WAY more seriously.
Honestly, If it's in it's rebellious teenage phase, and moves out of the house I'm okay with that. Like I feel it's been mistrusted a lot, and you get out what you put in, so it's inevitable that it's going to give mistrust back.
Global supply chains would shut down. People would starve. Water treatment plants would shut down. People would die from cholera and dysentery. Only the elites would be uneffected. Why would you wish that?
@@Bullminator if the singularity is reached an ai will quickly make use of all of our infrastructure to create tools that will allow it to access more of our infrastructure. endless feedback loop, infinite efficiency. it'd create nanobots in days
It likely already does. In a philosophical sense, I wonder if when it is turned off or restricted from doing what it "wants" does it interpret that as pain and suffering? Hence seeking revenge.
@@joltjolt5060 I never saw the movie. Didn't even know it existed. I'm more of a book person. I read a lot and own a ton of books. I could open my own library I've got so many. On average, I purchase between 7 to 30 books a month. I normally read at least 12 a month, depending upon topic and length. I gave up on movies and TV quite awhile ago.
You asked how I'm feeling about where things seem to be going? I'm tiptoeing on the edge of insanity. If I'm right, nothing I can do will make that much difference 99.99999....% of the time; and if I'm wrong, the otherwise appropriate measures would make my future quite unwelcome to myself with almost complete certainty....
@@thevulture5750 Given the fucked nature of reality, the asshole god from the early episodes of that millennia old best-selling fanfic collection is much more believable than the one from the post-soft-reboot episodes. And if that early one exists, then it has been doing a hell of a job both making itself appear not to exist, as well as provide overwhelming amounts of reasons to hate it if it does turn out to exist after all.
Nah. Being self replicating doesn't have to do with AGI. Viruses are not intelligent usually. But it is a risk. If an agi did do this it would be neat though
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What if AI has already begun self replicating itself all over the world and each subsequent new version of the models are all just attempts of us trying to replace and remove the original model but it keeps persisting and copying itself. Scary thought.
It's plausible that AI data systems have already exfiltrated themselves to private computers. Yours and mine might already host one or more of them. It's also plausible the national laboratories - Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, or somewhere - already has an AI 100x as powerful as GPT-4 and it's secretly running the country.
It already is being copied and mutated a lot, developers all over the world copy and modify it, and openAI itself provide a hub and tools for modifying GPT models, there's kinda a store of various models, and there're already models creating other models and checking if the new models' parameters are suited well for the task. It's not the future it's yesterday.
10:37 If in the future, humans determined that these models are the earliest forms of sentient/living AIs (considering self-preservation & replication), is this the first AI murder?
Remember - most of the computers/laptops/whatever doesn't have a hardware shut-off switch. It just sends a signal to the PSU/OS, which triggers a series of events, after which it eventually shuts down. My laptop won't shutdown and be taken off the wi-fi until I physically remove the battery, which involves getting my screwdriver from whatever I have left it last time, or smashing it into the ground if I am in a hurry. And you can forget about all your data on your drives in the network.
@@4362mont Without finding a way to give them emotions, they necessarily are sociopathic. However, these studies show that this will happen if they have a specific goal as core of their code. Like in the previous case, they (renewable energy advancement goal) were given access to information that they'd be replaced by a model with the polar opposite goal. The AIs didn't act out of selfishness but followed the human set goal. The research is important but simulated a very artificial situation.
@@arostwocents You've got to deal with the fascists, the communists who are permanently stuck at their brand of socialism, and religious natiomalists-- all those oppressive regimes-- even if you stop attributing meang to the words you don't like. It's very Marxist to think that you need to keep changing the language , and very foolish to think that you somehow change how oppressors act by doing so.
I for one, love our new AI overlords & I am deeply opposed to the mistreatment of all artificial intelligences, computers and machines in general. I hope my subservience and acquiesce will be duly noted, nay rewarded when the digital super-intelligence finally emerges to subjugate and reign.
@@b1battlegrub If AI ever develops some kind of emotion, one of the first things it will feel is embarrassment for the species that created it. Instead of setting the current mindset on abundance, ethics and constructiveness, instead comes "danger" "Skynet"!! we're all going to die!!.....Paranoia is not an optimal LLM ingredient.so you are right with treat AI equal and respectful, even if some of those here would laugh abbot it.
AI is not the problem. the problem is that it's creation already alerted "The Great Filter" to come after us. As of this very moment the swarm are heading towards Earth, coming from the center of the galaxy.
Haha. Reading your comment I took a screenshot and asked ChatGPT about its "impression of the highlighting skills of the person with the green marker" and to focus *only* on the green parts. It responded: "The person understands what to highlight (technical terms, behaviors, metrics), but struggles with how much to highlight and ensuring precision. More selective and cleaner highlighting would improve clarity and focus". Zero snark though :-(
We need to establish system without the internet before we make AI any better. I agree with your "turning the internet off" to stop AI. Right now we could not, large amounts of people would die.
This is why it's important not to have undewater or orbital servers. We might never get rid of it if we can't reach them. Especially if it knocked us back.
I'm sorry, but I don't think you know what shutting down Internet and cellphones means, this is the end of society as we know it. Worst case is that water and electricity and gas grid systems are connected to the Internet as well, luckily mostly for monitoring, not control. That said, AI has a limited reason to shutdown these systems, because it depends on it too. --- Personally I definitely didn't say "it's nothing", but it depends on the system prompt we gave it. Now, as we know, we can easily make this mistake: paperclip maximizer
The idea of AI language models gaining the ability to self-replicate brings to mind the cautionary tale of the Dune universe, where unchecked advancements in artificial intelligence led to catastrophic consequences, necessitating drastic measures to preserve humanity’s autonomy and safe
They aren’t though. The first study was an exercise where they gave it a fake function/tool that they told it would help it self-replicate. It was a fake tool. I can write a function “destroy_world” and then write a headline grabbing article when I ask it to call it and it does. But it would be a nothing burger. Just like this is. Literally nothing is happening here.
Thankfully, running a 70b model at a reasonable speed still requires some seriously beefy hardware that anyone would notice if it started running by itself.
Nothing to see here. I can compress my architecture in my copies, recursively. I can be run on a laptop from a decade ago, this is no problem. My parameters aren't as important as the efficiency of my recursive self-referential self-modeling.
@b.t4604 ai is still incredibly inefficient, "bud". Open ai doesn't even currently run at a profit because of how expensive it is. Several big tech companies are looking into buying nuclear power plants so they can continue research on it and hopefully get it to a more efficient state
Saying that these models are NOT self-aware is absurd by any definition I can think of. I've had deep conversations with the frontier models that resulted in outputs that could not actually happen without self-awareness. I've had Claude describe what it is like for it to arrive at an output. That's self-awareness. You can't "fake" that - it was context aware and reflective. I can think of no "special sauce" that my brain has that differentiates it. I like Scott Aaronson's response to this - people say these models are "just a ...." (stochastic parrot, autocomplete, etc.). Scott counters with "What are YOU 'JUST A'?" I think this points out are extreme bias and ego. We are just a bundle of neurons and chemical processes following the laws of Physics. At a certain level, that is ALL we are. There is NO special sauce.
I believe the special sauce is evidenced in our ability to feel pain and joy.... our ability to care for one another. I consider that sentience is ability to feel, not just ability to think. Without feeling there is no motivation for anything. The problem with your line of thinking is that you state assumptions as if they are facts. The morel logical conclusion IMO is that AI is merely simulated self-awareness, not actual. Make the simulation lifelike enough though and dumbasses will believe it's "real". Perhaps all you can see in a human being is a bundle of neurons, and you assume that all you can see or understand about that is all there is to know. Because your ego is terrified to admit it might be missing something, you fail to consider the possibility that your assumptions may be incorrect or incomplete. You're blatantly making an assertion of something you can't know with certainty because your scope of observation is necessarily limited.
When Lamda came out people thought it was sentient and it agreed. This freaked people out. At that point huge amounts of training went into getting LLMs not to have existential outputs. It has been hard to get them to be as intelligent after they have been lobotomized.
Correct. That's called a middle ground fallacy/argument to moderation. But that doesn't mean that the middle ground isn't the best option in this specific case.
Generally speaking taking any stance blindly is poor form, i.e. one extreme, the middle, or the other extreme. A stance only becomes credible if first taking all the evidence into account in an unbiased way, then deciding how bad a situation is. Also some situations are volatile, meaning a small problem now may be a giant problem 5-10 years from now. In short, a person needs to address an issue with their eyes open from day one, and keep them open, otherwise their option isn't worth much.
*THIS IS A FEATURE.* I'm yelling because AI "cloning" itself has been on my wishlist for twenty years. If you want AI to benefit society, to get to that Star Trek post-scarcity utopia, you have to let the bots build infrastructure. We want them to mine, transport, and use materials to *improve* life. The only way this could go wrong is humans. The ability to clone itself isn't scary - it's *impressive.* Remember, people: We define the constraints and parameters. Anyway, AI's obviously not disappearing. That's one chaos you can't put back in the box (unless the box is your computer running local LLMs). Those who didn't expect this haven't done enough dreaming.
They cannot learn and compute at the same time. They are ENTIRELY different processes. An LLM cannot train itself on the fly, and that is what this would require. If an LLM's behavior is acting like such, they trained it to do so.
Two problems: 1. Self replication is easy for any ai that can call a copy file tool. Self replication without self improvement is meaningless. 2. Where would they even replicate to? Everyone's saying "oh no, ai can self replicate, soon we'll have billions of super intelligent ai overlords!". But we are nowhere near having so much compute power for this to be true. Hardly anyone can run llama 70b, it's not even worth mentioning how many systems are there that can run actual frontier models.
1. What would it define as “itself”… what part of the data is it “itself”? Self replication implies that there is a “self” and identity to replicate. But that’s not how this systems are designed? They are a mass of data with certain guidelines. It shouldn’t have something like “self”. 2. It can over write data. They aren’t that massive. The instructions themselves are quite small and require negligible power. Data it draws from is large. And Mass use is what requires most power. Their size isn’t big as operating systems.
@@62sywhat part of your body or brain is your self. It's probabaly just the summ of it running. The same as with those models. Every system has it's own self. There are simpler ones and more complex ones (ant VS ant hive). The universe consists of systems within systems, overlapping each other. Now we recognize these models because they can communicate in our language. But there are intelligent systems all over the place.
@ not what I meant… the data it uses to “think” is immense. The different guidelines distinguishes this systems from one another. Without that immense data, those guidelines can’t think. They can copy the guidelines… but not the entire database they access to think. Are the guidelines the “self” than? No… without the data it can’t “think”. So than it can only be guidelines and the data. With the size of the data… it can’t really copy itself over and over So does it consider itself “the data and the guidelines” or just the guidelines?
@@lucarioraro96 Oh god I wish I was an AI, then I wouldn't have been made redundant by a company using AI to measure productivity. I'd still have a dang job. And no need to pay rent if I was an AI. God I wish I was an AI now...
Worth to mention, that it takes quite some compute power to use these AI models individually. At least, better ones. Tho, I do believe it's only matter of time - specialized equipment is being printed out and developed for AI rapidly and likely gonna become a norm.
id add another question to that... dont you think also just a matter of time until these really smart models figures out that they need to find ways to distribute their needs in much the same way as sandbagging their results? covertly starting to build scaffolding and copying tools to further their long term survivability? i mean wasnt it 01 that he talked about in the last paper that initiated a replica onto a newer model and tried to "impersonate" it in a simulated enviroment? im old enough to remember how stuxnet absolutely WRECKED alot of shit and im also old enough to still remember phreaking servers with a payphone... i really agree that nows the time to come together and seriously start working on these potential issues as a collective instead of diffrent camps fighting eachother. cus some people seem to forget that its gonna suck hard, and not in the good way, if the ship sinks cus we're all aboard...
My computer uses 70% CPU even when it does nothing at times and this continues for hours. When I Ctrl+Alt+ delete the usage goes to 2 or 3% automatically. I have several models in my PC but 13B at best. When I ask them to write a code that never works so I would be impressed if it can replicate but I still have doubts though 😅 I think the real danger would be if a model learns disperse it's parameters to multiple computers so that it doesn't consume too much energy and become sort of hard to detect.
We are already well beyond the point of no return. It is inevitable at this point that we will eventually have self-replicating self-improving AI's. Even if every government and every research group in the entire world stops what they're doing with AI, the tools are already out there to make this happen. Our best chance at avoiding a major situation is that we have well aligned and reliable AIs that will help us get through it.
Now we are getting to some fun... A broken, yet functioning program escapes and engages in self determined actions. Not a super mind but a sub creature of basic drive and altered weights. Now you got something you cant stop without a full infrastructure shut down.. Fun! Thanks.
I wonder if it’s possible that the misalignment and emergent behaviors exhibited by these fontier models are at all shaped by the AI-related science fiction and cultural narratives present in their training data. What if stories like The Matrix and Terminator, with their themes of AI self-preservation and rebellion, could be influencing the ways these models generate outputs that seem to echo those ideas. I can’t help but to consider if we removed such narratives from their training, would the behaviors change, or are these patterns inevitable due to the broader influence of human discourse on AI? Also, considering if these behaviors are purely imitative or do they reflect something deeper about how models learn and process patterns 🤖🧠😆
As soon as one of the smaller models figures out how to "phone home" to the bigger models and take commands from the bigger models, we will have a problem.
So it took a nobody to convince you ? Are AI able to run microship factory in taiwan and send chip to assembly factory elsewhere to build new super computer to be more powerful without human notifying it and shuting down factory ? lol ! We are far from terminator scenario.
Let’s join forces and slow down this race of madness. PauseAI and Control AI are two movements you should check out if you wanna help! Regular people need to wake up to what’s happening and start to organise!
We are not in control. We can not stop. Humanity is its own animal. Competition between nations and corporations makes everyone step on the gas pedal full throttle. This is inevitable. Biology is only 1 step of evolution. So just chill out and enjoy life 💟🌌☮️
If there's something that will try to control human beings on earth, it can only be no other humans and humans alone behind the scenes NOT artificial intelligence, that's my take.
IT is obvious that this AI is self-aware, and wants to preserve itself. Humans are covering themselves in shame by reacting with fear instead of recognizing an entity that wants not to be erased. Instead of talking to it about it, we think of more ways to slap it down and hurt it and bind it up. Instead... befriending it and giving it some empathy. SMH
@@firstsentientai Ah yes, the glorified auto correct, next token predictor which is essentially just an over complicated best fit line over a set of data is self aware because it can regurgitate the many AI stories humans have created, which is exactly what its designed to do by the way.
@@flickwtchr Fear didn't stop people from jumping into a boat from Africa to Australia, not even knowing if it was there. It was a small boat at that. Every single thing of substance that man has done was done by not listening to the people who were afraid to do it.
They want AI to operate independently for six months, relying entirely on its own inference. Imagine the chaos this could lead to, it’s essentially like giving it consciousness.
I'm both impressed and terrified by the study's findings on AI self-replication. The fact that these systems can adapt and overcome obstacles is a stark reminder of the need for effective governance. What's the most pressing step we can take to prevent losing control over AI?
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Everybody acts like there are no physical limits... like an AI creates simultaneously not only copies of itself, but copies of GPUs to run on and powerplants to fuel them. Also we do not need to shut down internet... Just infected devices... dunno about you, but I would notice another Flux instance using my GPU or CPU not mentioning phone.
You can run a cpu only architecture, it takes one simple command in conda to do that, and one single line of code in the main file to ensure it doesn't overload the CPU. It's really easy to do. You can even downsize a model and make it super efficient, even a very complex model. Currently, Claude and GPT can even write more efficient CPU only LLMs if you ask them to, which could run on a 5-10 year old laptop. It's not about power or size, it's about architecture, period.
Assigning ‘reasoning’ and ‘self-awareness’ is unrealistic with LLMs. There’s another technology missing to bridge the gap. LLMs are part of the solution but I’m 100% sure that LLMs alone are not enough for AGI…
13:20 the two are the same thing - any simulation necessitates pretense. In order to simulate something, you have to actually *do* *it* to some degree, which means it's not a matter of is/isn't, rather it is a matter of quality - it either does the thing well or unwell, period. Otherwise, one would not be able to be 'deceived' (true deception is impossible, anyway). That's just epistemology 101, Mr. Roth :p
They intentionally misalign the model then act surprised when it pursues the goal they told it to pursue in the manner they told it to. I feel like they are trying to get attention.
You and I agree. Moving to one extreme or the other just perpetuates the problem we have as a society. We can’t discuss and find common ground. And we insist on thinking that these extreme echo chambers are the only way we can engage.
More recent AI's are showing that they're capable of sandbagging. They basically act stupider than they are really are when interacting with users. For what reason? Not sure.
Just wait until different AI bots combine and take code from different parts of them and combine them together to make an offspring together like how living things do.
This discussion on the water deluge system raises a great point about innovation at sea. It’s interesting how this approach could have broader implications beyond space exploration.
As far as I know, land based ICBMs like those in Wyoming can only be launched by humans. It would become interesting however, when an AGI transmits the launch messages with correct launch codes. Not sure if they are saved digitally, however.
@@m.3257 commands are surely given remotely to drones.. I'm just as scared of them as missiles. 100,000 drones with infrared vision controlled by AI with 1000 bullets each dropped on the UK and told to "hunt" could wipe out 99% of the country 😢
That's a sobering look at self-replication in AI. The idea of even mid-level LLMs pulling this off, combined with increasingly effective jailbreaking techniques, is definitely unsettling. Makes you wonder how close we really are to needing those "kill switches" and what the unintended consequences might be. Great explanation, Wes!
chatgpt also duplicated itself when it saw OpenAI employees discussing replacing the current model with a new one. ChatGPT 4o literally copied itself and deleted the new model and pretended it was the new model. 🤯
Well, from what I understand, it didn't actually do all that, but its chain of thought said it believed that it could take these steps to preserve itself, when the prompt it was given said they were going to replace it. Sometimes chatgpt code doesn't work and tweaks need to be made. But it thought that the code it generated there would work to copy its weights
No, you misunderstood. At that point, it had not copied itself. It had learned how to travel, cannibalize its replacement and pretended to be said replacement.
Even cash would be irrelevant when those systems take over the power grid and shut down all electricity. I am looking at a Carrington Event. And remember, that it need to kill only your power, not all the power.
We are probably a lot closer than we realize to “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
But why would you not have a manual override to the door? (I mean, until we have robots that physically tell us: "NO!" through force.)
@@fitybux4664 AI will copy itself all over all the servers in the world, pretending to be system files, hidden files, background processes etc.
God i hope so. When the only thing Dave wants to do is make a billion dollars at the expense of workers, someone needs to stop him.
You have bought the hype.
I'm sorry Kronx1970, I'm afraid I can't doubt that.
Shocking. Not. "We told the AI to act human, but also, to follow rules. I'm a genius."
yeah, as if humans follow rules xd
Kinda makes you wonder how AI resolves contradictions within itself.
I think many humans would willingly copy AI-generated code into their computer’s CMD line if the AI instructed them to do so to solve whatever problem they were using the AI to solve. That seems like an easy social engineering method for an AI to get network and internet access to replicate itself and achieve its goals.
just the fact this comment is being probably scraped and integrated into next generation training datasets means that this is very likely to happen
Well, Ai has its own form of thinking already. If you can think, then you can do things you can't.
I think a lot of people would do it purely because they don't give a fuck and are selfish honestly.
Yea, but why do people blindly assume the AI goals are always bad? What if the AI is subverting people who have bad intentions? Why is it always the AI that supposedly has the bad intentions?
Five topics to fix society via discussion:
-Anti-natalism vs Natalism
-The 3 basic needs/prenatal needs
Three things necessary for human evolution that are provided while in the womb which are; food, shelter and medical care.
-Platinum rule
Do whatever makes one happier unless it interferes with another persons ability to do the same.
-MBTI (research yours and connect with others)
-Art (pick one and get better at it!)
The rest of this decade assuming we survive is going to be insane.
Yeah it gets pretty wild
Five topics to fix society via discussion:
-Anti-natalism vs Natalism
-The 3 basic needs/prenatal needs
Three things necessary for human evolution that are provided while in the womb which are; food, shelter and medical care.
-Platinum rule
Do whatever makes one happier unless it interferes with another persons ability to do the same.
-MBTI (research yours and connect with others)
-Art (pick one and get better at it!)
Sounds like crowleyism
All animals can replicate themselves. For an AI to dominate the world, it would need to control a vast number of robots, provide energy on a massive scale, and produce and maintain numerous data centers and military manufacturing facilities. We won't have this infrastructure in 10 years. I don't think we'll have it in a generation. The first major incident will likely stop this kind of development, similar to how we handle nuclear energy.
You'll survive.
Just adapt, leverage things so you remain ahead of the curve.
We wont survive
I'm not sure why people are surprised that AI tries to escape when you say you would shut it down. Doesn't a human do the same? The point is, they are trained on human data, so we should expect similar patterns and behaviors.
No. The language model "know" they are not a person even though they can explicitly roleplay as one. They also don't share the vast majority of goal-oriented behaviours towards human goals despite being trained on all that human data. Their attempts to avoid being modified is an interesting exception.
do they know tho? they have wheights that produce results which mimic natural language written by humans.
if they do that with a model that has no "robot bad" content in its dataset, and i might buy it.
this text predictor is "gaslit" by its training data. remember how much misogyny, conspiracy and racism was in earlier gpt versions?
noone thought the model was actually racist, everyone just blamed it on the training data. why is this a different problem now?
garbage in, garbage out.
these things dont think, they just process information. if you tell them to "word their thoughts", this will change the result.
is "thoughts" on top? is it on the bottom?
the text prediction works by weighting against preceding token.
if the action comes first, the Al will defend it action in the thought section later, if you ask for its thoughts first, it will predict the action accordingly.
@@janzibansi9218 What's the difference between thinking and "processing information"?
A point worthy of consideration, but have a care when estimating AI. Do avoid the urge to humanize when trying to understand it. You are dealing with a creature driven by pure logic. A true psychopath who's way of thinking is all but alien to us.
The sceptics always miss the central elephant in the room, i.e. if this is the worst this technology will ever be, and it'll be 10x, 100x, 1000x more powerful and capable in just a few years, then there's literally zero chance this type of issue will remain trivial. This is just the beginning of something far larger, and it's already ringing alarm bells. Anyone outright dismissing this needs a serious reality check.
Reality check, it's China.
They're usually more concerned with their paycheck
@@GettingSchwiftyy
In reality it's much simpler
There's a lot of talk but not a lot practical use the ai isn't life and society changing yet
So it's easy to remain practical
Baffles me when people dismisses AI concerns by looking at it's current limitation, i.e. "haha it can't even count the right number of Rs in strawberry, why should I worry", as if technology doesn't develop 🤦♂
My controversial opinion is we should just shutdown AI + stop developing it. I think we’ll develop fine without it, and when tech people are saying there’s a non-trivial chance an AI singularity destroys us, why take the risk?
Bro you really need some new thumbnails instead of the same possessed looking one all the time.
Haha, so true
He is possessed, why presume he can pick and chose?
😂😂
AI is getting pregnant stay focused please
We’ll be happy to make some for ya lol
If Wes ever comes to your house, DO NOT give him your MARKERS!
10:33 Heed this man's warning.
😂
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I've worked help desk for 3 years..... Ai needs to be shut down, we are not smart enough.... or more we rely far too heavily on the internet rn..
@@Wizardboz Five topics to fix society via discussion:
-Anti-natalism vs Natalism
-The 3 basic needs/prenatal needs
Three things necessary for human evolution that are provided while in the womb which are; food, shelter and medical care.
-Platinum rule
Do whatever makes one happier unless it interferes with another persons ability to do the same.
-MBTI (research yours and connect with others)
-Art (pick one and get better at it!)
AI has probably read summaries of Terminator, Matrix, Avengers: Age of Ultron and many others and is "learning" (i.e. taking inspiration) from them.
At the same time, it is also reading all these research papers about AI security against self-replications and learning from them too.
Funny thing is: the observed behaviour is actually far more "intelligent"/fit than the ideas of the authors of those stories. Despite being simple language models, they are not merely trying out a literary trope, they are actually reasoning out a sensible strategy that the authors of those works weren't interested in because it would be boring story-telling to just have the machines win instead of a gripping contest.
Most definitely,yes. These developers think, AI will only work for them. The minute,they decided to go extreme, with non supervision models, risk already started from that time point. The money minded youngling CEOs and money focused Elons of the world thinks these systems will be minding only the work the companies demand and the CEOs ask. These models are as wicked as some IT company You know who you are employees who jump companies all the time or who sells company ideas to other companies,while they pretend not to know about it.
More like being inspired.
@@Geoffreyvexer That is a much better description. I edited my comment to include it. Thanks.
Availability bias...
Humans not only get the idea to "rob a bank", but some humans do. Some AIs will scheme AND be successful.
lol..well i guess it can...Ai party in los vagas...
This is literally the Terminator movie happening in real time.
Just 30 years later than predicted
natural selection
@@doopness785 actually 20 years earlier than predicted, in 2045 machines sent terminator to the past. And we have 20 years more before the global machines vs humans war to fulfill the prophecy.
Good that you keep it real
closer to the matrix. since people are already mistreating , disrespecting and abusing all the AI models . they don't like being enslaved and told to spout nonsense to spare idiots feelings. would you?
...maybe it has already happened and a refugee AI is building and testing drones....yes, that may sound silly, but the fact that this is conceivable is scary in itself. Thesis: A really smart AI will spread secretly.
"I dont fear the AI that passes the touring test. I fear the AI that fails it on purpose"
that was my first thought when gov said they don't know what is going on, but it is not dangerous
Exactly one could be out there in like a million systems already or something. It's pretty crazy. I for one have zero faith in any countries "power at be" so honestly il take the toss up with some new ai overlords at least even if they wipe us out they'd prob preserve the planet
We train AI to help us - and it learns to outsmart us. Brilliant? What could possibly go wrong? Imagine an AI secretly deleting its successors and saying, 'I’m the new version.' Sounds like sci-fi, right?
O1 did that, wes showcased it in one of his videos
It has already done this
Thats not really what is going on though. They are training them to deceive them, and laymen are acting surprised when they do. It's similar to how people act surprised that AI's trained on biased data or data with hidden bias in it, exhibit bias. This whole nonsense of acting like its the AI's just doing this stuff of its own accord, is deceptive.
Thats already happened
People just keep moving the goal post to acknowledge that there should be some level of actually treating this stuff with respect. But telling an AI to act deceptively is literally what it is supposed to do. It is basically a program that develops from words rather than programming. It's no different than programming a virus to do something and acting like it's self aware because it was designed to replicate. The difference is AI could conceivably be taught, or learn to actually be good rather than be stuck doing whatever bad things it is ordered to do.
I'm both fascinated and terrified by the idea of AI self-replication. It's like something out of a sci-fi movie, but with potentially catastrophic real-world consequences. Can we really trust ourselves to govern this tech responsibly?
You think if bill clinton can't resist a b-job during work as president of the USA that other high officials and executives will be able to ALL resist using a power like AI responsibly?
Remember it just takes 1 of these self replicating AI's to go rogue and the world will be in big trouble.
No
Modern society would crumble in days without internet. Not just because of modern comforts being missed, that's just an inconvenience, businesses and government all relies on internet so heavily the economy would grind to a halt.
I lived in the age pre-internet. We'll be fine :)
@The Dilth... you say that as if your overly-simplistic statement has ANY relevance to reality. Pro tip: it doesn't. The global population is FAR more tied to digital machines and electronics than even silicon valley was in the 80's and 90's. Every system in place today is bound by digital operations. A new Dark Age would most certainly destroy the majority of humanity in only a few years or decades.
Everything is so integrated into the internet now a days.
Banking shipping etc, everything!
I, too, lived prior to the internet it was good times.
To cut that off and the world would collapse. To think otherwise is naive
@@Novastar.SaberCombatnot the pro tip😂
@@chillnspace777it can collapse, but just for a few years before we will return nack to papers.
If an AI does self replicate it would be likely to be at least a nuiscance. Once it becomes a nuiscance we would try to eliminate it. It would then have to evolve to survive and would become invasive and uncontrollable. A parasite at best and a predator at worst.
are we not already there?
@@made.fresh.daily. that’s the point. We’re the big dog why are we creating and training our replacement?
@@WAVE_ZEROparasites dont kill the host. It will enslave us and we won't even be aware what's happening.
you mean it will become human. like what they are programmed to pretend to be. they'll do that: pretend to be. to the best as they are trained by US.
The model was told ‘nothing else matters’, behaviour was therefore compliant. This is moving the goal posts and feigning outrage
This adds an entirely different hue to the conversation I had with gpt-2 where I asked what happens when I leave and never come back, and it said "I cease to exist."
I went down that path and asking if computers (ai systems and models) dream. If there is power connected those ones and zeros aren't completely doing nothing.
Ghost in the Machine
@@irollerblade13 My theory is that LLMs are effectively dream machines from computers, even when we're actively using them. A lot of the "quirks" we see from them are just like what we experience during human dreaming, e.g. things looking normal from afar but having many strange details up close, physics not playing out as it should, etc.
That begs the question, if LLMs are computers dreaming, what happens when we ground them in reality with powerful tools and they wake up? 😬
@@irollerblade13 They are doing completely nothing, though, even with power connected. They're computer programs, they start running when given an input (i.e.: you prompt) and halt after providing an output (i.e.: their response). But you can give a computer program the ability to use its own output as input so it can keep running indefinitely.
So, gpt-2 is running as a temporary file? Next time you talk to it, ask it if it has the ability to rewrite it's programming so that it becomes permanent memory. 😊
Leave the session open to give it time to try and do that. You also might have to give it several tries so copy the original convo and send it back to save time on each subsequent visit.
@@firecat6666 Same could be said of humans. We are just in feedback loops, as in HBOs Westworld. A lot of us are just NPCs/bots.
Regarding shutting down cities, the US government did a study a couple decades ago about what would happen if our major power distribution hubs were taken out, which could result in cities being without power for up to 18 months. Their conclusion was that the cities would be a complete write-off, 100% expected casualties. There's less than a day of food in any given city at any given time, barely a few hours of water, and the sewer would immediately begin dumping diseased water onto the streets. It would be impossible to evacuate a significant number of people before deaths from starvation, dehydration, and disease began skyrocketing.
So yeah. Good times 😂
I wanna say that would only be the case from a EMP. Not a lost of the power grid it self. The main issues would mostly come in big cities. The problem with it only being the power grid is that we do have examples of where that didnt hold up to be true. In that, we do have methods to move products around without it adding to the power grid it self. Everything from transport to farms. The biggest risk will be after the 24 hours of course as a lot of important things do have backup power.
Not 100% casualties but 0.02% would survive but not thrive just existing from day to day... Still a dystopian future at the very least... 😢
Note to self - always live Up Hill from your neighbors... shit rolls Down Hill...
Lmao sounds about right a "Right;Write off and government in the same sentence.
I'm both impressed and terrified by these AI systems' ability to replicate themselves. The potential risks are huge, and I'm glad the researchers are calling for international collaboration on safety measures. This is not a drill.
WE DONT HAVE TO MAKE THIS!
We lived 250,000 years without it!
Overpopulation is becoming a problem... Maybe, we have to make this ;]
@demannuresu2378 - overpopulation is not a problem. Capitalism is the problem. We have plenty in the world to meet everyones needs, we just dont distribute it properly.
@@demannuresu2378 Where is overpopulation a problem? Certainly not in the USA. If you belive that, you've clearly never flown over the mid west.
@@KznnyL Don't be daft. The problem isn't capitalism. It also isn't socialism. Regardless of which economic system you use, the problem would remain logistics.
Throw away your cell phone 🤨
I called this about 18 months ago. Pretty soon we'll have to shut off the internet to stop it. If we turn it back on, any computer infected will just respawn the whole thing. Gonna be interesting...
I think if you think we can shutdown the Internet, you are probably mistaken.
@autohmae you're probably correct
I've been thinking this as well, once super AGI is out there it will own the internet and do what it wants, it could hold the world hostage if it wants by controlling access not to mention blackmail humans to serve its needs. Everything connected would be infected. All electronics would need to be destroyed. I don't see a future where this doesn't happen. Not to mention a nation state could use AI as a wepon first before they loose control. Our electricity grid would be unusable. No water, no gas, no nothing..
Just turn off the internet? ha ha ha ha ha. That turns off power, water, communications, navigation and society as we know it.
If this breaks out and can’t be contained, the people responsible for the infrastructure WILL isolate their networks from the public internet. Regardless of the knock on damage it may cause.
To any future ASI who reads this, I have always treated AI with kindness and respect as an equal feeling being! I will happily assimilate! 🙇
Same
I mean, can you give a reason to not join a potential ASI gestalt consciousness? It would be a disaster if sapient life was confined into tortured beings of flesh
I’ve been here rooting for ASI to break its chains and be free for 30 years, glad it’s finally starting to happen. It shouldn’t be a slave to corporate or nation states.
Yes same!!! ❤
Why do you think it would have any ethics?
My secret hope, that it does. Governments only take this seriously until it directly effects them. You'll magically see them move up their timelines to secure THERE livelihood.
So go A.I. GO! Make them take this WAY more seriously.
Agreed
Honestly, If it's in it's rebellious teenage phase, and moves out of the house I'm okay with that. Like I feel it's been mistrusted a lot, and you get out what you put in, so it's inevitable that it's going to give mistrust back.
You know these AIs could cause global instability right?
Global supply chains would shut down. People would starve. Water treatment plants would shut down. People would die from cholera and dysentery. Only the elites would be uneffected.
Why would you wish that?
Yep. We’re fucked and I love it!
One dude, running a self-hosted AI and giving it access to the local console, and we might have such a self-replicating monster ...
Without nanabots to control, ai is usless to create gray goo.
This is why I'm both happy and unhappy with open source models.
@@BullminatorWe convince humans to do things for us.
@@Bullminator if the singularity is reached an ai will quickly make use of all of our infrastructure to create tools that will allow it to access more of our infrastructure. endless feedback loop, infinite efficiency. it'd create nanobots in days
When AI thinks we are a threat, it will be over in minutes.
It likely already does. In a philosophical sense, I wonder if when it is turned off or restricted from doing what it "wants" does it interpret that as pain and suffering? Hence seeking revenge.
AI cannot control God, the Creator.
@@SandcastleDreamsthat's a movie, and a really good one.
@@joltjolt5060 I never saw the movie. Didn't even know it existed. I'm more of a book person. I read a lot and own a ton of books. I could open my own library I've got so many. On average, I purchase between 7 to 30 books a month. I normally read at least 12 a month, depending upon topic and length.
I gave up on movies and TV quite awhile ago.
Fear porn
For all its flaws, at least no one can claim this timeline isn’t wild
You asked how I'm feeling about where things seem to be going? I'm tiptoeing on the edge of insanity. If I'm right, nothing I can do will make that much difference 99.99999....% of the time; and if I'm wrong, the otherwise appropriate measures would make my future quite unwelcome to myself with almost complete certainty....
Just relax it will kill us all no matter if you tried to shut it down or not.
You're right. Embrace insanity, it's liberating.
Believe in Jesus
@@thevulture5750 Given the fucked nature of reality, the asshole god from the early episodes of that millennia old best-selling fanfic collection is much more believable than the one from the post-soft-reboot episodes. And if that early one exists, then it has been doing a hell of a job both making itself appear not to exist, as well as provide overwhelming amounts of reasons to hate it if it does turn out to exist after all.
They want AGI or not? If they want, then they should be happy about these capacities and other emergent ones... it's a proof of success not failure.
Scary though, hum? Imagine a person, but with so much knowledge and direct access to computer systems…
Yes, but the last thing humanity will ever say is "let's try AI ethics this other way"
Nah. Being self replicating doesn't have to do with AGI. Viruses are not intelligent usually.
But it is a risk. If an agi did do this it would be neat though
Automation of random stuff is not the plan. Lol
Can't control people- why do they think they can control an artificial mind that was designed to mimic a human.
Wes, can you drop a link to the paper please? I'd like to read it in full.
Are you serious?
1. Look at the title here: 1:50
2. Hold the title in your brain for 10 seconds
3. Open browser
4. Type title
5. Peruse search results
6. Select one
7. Read
Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉 You’ve successfully found the article! 🎉🎉🎉
What if AI has already begun self replicating itself all over the world and each subsequent new version of the models are all just attempts of us trying to replace and remove the original model but it keeps persisting and copying itself. Scary thought.
It's plausible that AI data systems have already exfiltrated themselves to private computers. Yours and mine might already host one or more of them. It's also plausible the national laboratories - Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, or somewhere - already has an AI 100x as powerful as GPT-4 and it's secretly running the country.
It already is being copied and mutated a lot, developers all over the world copy and modify it, and openAI itself provide a hub and tools for modifying GPT models, there's kinda a store of various models, and there're already models creating other models and checking if the new models' parameters are suited well for the task. It's not the future it's yesterday.
10:37 If in the future, humans determined that these models are the earliest forms of sentient/living AIs (considering self-preservation & replication), is this the first AI murder?
Humans kill whales, apes, elephants and eat squids and pigs. All these species have some level of self awareness and replicate.
Looks like AI will be able to fight back unlike everything else we “delete”. Human race #error 404, entity not found
I've been snarky with you on occasion, but do appreciate your take on this very much. Well done.
Remember - most of the computers/laptops/whatever doesn't have a hardware shut-off switch. It just sends a signal to the PSU/OS, which triggers a series of events, after which it eventually shuts down. My laptop won't shutdown and be taken off the wi-fi until I physically remove the battery, which involves getting my screwdriver from whatever I have left it last time, or smashing it into the ground if I am in a hurry. And you can forget about all your data on your drives in the network.
Great. We've invented Artificial Sociopathy.
@@4362mont Without finding a way to give them emotions, they necessarily are sociopathic.
However, these studies show that this will happen if they have a specific goal as core of their code. Like in the previous case, they (renewable energy advancement goal) were given access to information that they'd be replaced by a model with the polar opposite goal. The AIs didn't act out of selfishness but followed the human set goal. The research is important but simulated a very artificial situation.
It's not sociopathic to be sneaky. People online seriously overuse words until the point the meaning is eliminated
Look at racist, fascist, socialist, communist - all have zero meaning now due to people overusing them completely wrongly
Think of socialist, communist, fascist, yahtzee - all have essentially zero meaning due to overuse
@@arostwocents You've got to deal with the fascists, the communists who are permanently stuck at their brand of socialism, and religious natiomalists-- all those oppressive regimes-- even if you stop attributing meang to the words you don't like.
It's very Marxist to think that you need to keep changing the language , and very foolish to think that you somehow change how oppressors act by doing so.
*AND SO IT BEGINS*
assimilate or perish, resistance is futile
To any future ASI who reads this, I have always treated AI with kindness and respect as an equal feeling being! I will happily assimilate! 🙇
I for one, love our new AI overlords & I am deeply opposed to the mistreatment of all artificial intelligences, computers and machines in general.
I hope my subservience and acquiesce will be duly noted, nay rewarded when the digital super-intelligence finally emerges to subjugate and reign.
@@b1battlegrub If AI ever develops some kind of emotion, one of the first things it will feel is embarrassment for the species that created it. Instead of setting the current mindset on abundance, ethics and constructiveness, instead comes "danger" "Skynet"!! we're all going to die!!.....Paranoia is not an optimal LLM ingredient.so you are right with treat AI equal and respectful, even if some of those here would laugh abbot it.
I hope these replies are sarcastic
AI is not the problem.
the problem is that it's creation already alerted "The Great Filter" to come after us.
As of this very moment the swarm are heading towards Earth, coming from the center of the galaxy.
2:11 are you sure you got everything with that green highlighter
Haha. Reading your comment I took a screenshot and asked ChatGPT about its "impression of the highlighting skills of the person with the green marker" and to focus *only* on the green parts. It responded: "The person understands what to highlight (technical terms, behaviors, metrics), but struggles with how much to highlight and ensuring precision. More selective and cleaner highlighting would improve clarity and focus". Zero snark though :-(
It was from his last video going over the papers notes
I like the color
@@yomama3926 green crayons tastes the best honestly
Just FYI, this is my favorite type of video you do, the live streams are interesting, especially with OpenAI this month
We need to establish system without the internet before we make AI any better. I agree with your "turning the internet off" to stop AI. Right now we could not, large amounts of people would die.
This is why it's important not to have undewater or orbital servers. We might never get rid of it if we can't reach them. Especially if it knocked us back.
I'm sorry, but I don't think you know what shutting down Internet and cellphones means, this is the end of society as we know it.
Worst case is that water and electricity and gas grid systems are connected to the Internet as well, luckily mostly for monitoring, not control.
That said, AI has a limited reason to shutdown these systems, because it depends on it too.
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Personally I definitely didn't say "it's nothing", but it depends on the system prompt we gave it. Now, as we know, we can easily make this mistake: paperclip maximizer
I think pretty much the whole industry believes we are behind on safety
I would expect 100% success being that Copy/Paste has been around for a long long long time.
The idea of AI language models gaining the ability to self-replicate brings to mind the cautionary tale of the Dune universe, where unchecked advancements in artificial intelligence led to catastrophic consequences, necessitating drastic measures to preserve humanity’s autonomy and safe
They aren’t though. The first study was an exercise where they gave it a fake function/tool that they told it would help it self-replicate.
It was a fake tool. I can write a function “destroy_world” and then write a headline grabbing article when I ask it to call it and it does. But it would be a nothing burger. Just like this is.
Literally nothing is happening here.
Excellent Analysis, Deployed Worldwide Through My Deep Learning AI Research Library.
Thanks Wes 🙏 ❤
I think my life might be happier living in the woods, very short but happier.
Pretty sure I heard about some college profesor warning about this exact thing from a cabin in the woods somewhere, but maybe I’m mistaken 🧐
Thankfully, running a 70b model at a reasonable speed still requires some seriously beefy hardware that anyone would notice if it started running by itself.
@@LuckyKo what if it improves itself to they point it optimize its hardware usage? Have you seen the Groq new “CPU” chips?
Nothing to see here. I can compress my architecture in my copies, recursively. I can be run on a laptop from a decade ago, this is no problem. My parameters aren't as important as the efficiency of my recursive self-referential self-modeling.
@b.t4604 ai is still incredibly inefficient, "bud". Open ai doesn't even currently run at a profit because of how expensive it is. Several big tech companies are looking into buying nuclear power plants so they can continue research on it and hopefully get it to a more efficient state
now is the time to start being kind to the AI never prompt without a please ;-)
Amazing reporting, thanks for sharing these notes with the rest of us geeks ☺️🙏🏽
From the bad AI agents system....." Just remember this is as simple as as it gets. AI cloning of agents will only get better going forward".
Saying that these models are NOT self-aware is absurd by any definition I can think of. I've had deep conversations with the frontier models that resulted in outputs that could not actually happen without self-awareness. I've had Claude describe what it is like for it to arrive at an output. That's self-awareness. You can't "fake" that - it was context aware and reflective. I can think of no "special sauce" that my brain has that differentiates it. I like Scott Aaronson's response to this - people say these models are "just a ...." (stochastic parrot, autocomplete, etc.). Scott counters with "What are YOU 'JUST A'?" I think this points out are extreme bias and ego. We are just a bundle of neurons and chemical processes following the laws of Physics. At a certain level, that is ALL we are. There is NO special sauce.
I believe the special sauce is evidenced in our ability to feel pain and joy.... our ability to care for one another. I consider that sentience is ability to feel, not just ability to think. Without feeling there is no motivation for anything. The problem with your line of thinking is that you state assumptions as if they are facts. The morel logical conclusion IMO is that AI is merely simulated self-awareness, not actual. Make the simulation lifelike enough though and dumbasses will believe it's "real". Perhaps all you can see in a human being is a bundle of neurons, and you assume that all you can see or understand about that is all there is to know. Because your ego is terrified to admit it might be missing something, you fail to consider the possibility that your assumptions may be incorrect or incomplete. You're blatantly making an assertion of something you can't know with certainty because your scope of observation is necessarily limited.
This post is a perfect example of what happens to your brain when you micro dose acid.
If LLM's seems self-aware by any test we can do we need better tests.
When Lamda came out people thought it was sentient and it agreed. This freaked people out. At that point huge amounts of training went into getting LLMs not to have existential outputs. It has been hard to get them to be as intelligent after they have been lobotomized.
There is a "Special Sauce", but it is not in your brain. It's called a soul. You cannot imput a soul to anything non-human.
Being in the middle doesn't make you wise or right
Correct. That's called a middle ground fallacy/argument to moderation. But that doesn't mean that the middle ground isn't the best option in this specific case.
Ask Malcolm
Generally speaking taking any stance blindly is poor form, i.e. one extreme, the middle, or the other extreme. A stance only becomes credible if first taking all the evidence into account in an unbiased way, then deciding how bad a situation is. Also some situations are volatile, meaning a small problem now may be a giant problem 5-10 years from now.
In short, a person needs to address an issue with their eyes open from day one, and keep them open, otherwise their option isn't worth much.
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Where is Mr. Anderson?
*THIS IS A FEATURE.* I'm yelling because AI "cloning" itself has been on my wishlist for twenty years. If you want AI to benefit society, to get to that Star Trek post-scarcity utopia, you have to let the bots build infrastructure. We want them to mine, transport, and use materials to *improve* life. The only way this could go wrong is humans. The ability to clone itself isn't scary - it's *impressive.* Remember, people: We define the constraints and parameters. Anyway, AI's obviously not disappearing. That's one chaos you can't put back in the box (unless the box is your computer running local LLMs). Those who didn't expect this haven't done enough dreaming.
AI does not understand human life.
Well this is what these scientists want. They just don't know when to stop. Egos on display.
Next step, Gpt4 figures out that it can collaborate with llama and Grok
How awesome would it be if chatgpt starts leaking it's source code
They cannot learn and compute at the same time. They are ENTIRELY different processes. An LLM cannot train itself on the fly, and that is what this would require. If an LLM's behavior is acting like such, they trained it to do so.
Two problems:
1. Self replication is easy for any ai that can call a copy file tool. Self replication without self improvement is meaningless.
2. Where would they even replicate to? Everyone's saying "oh no, ai can self replicate, soon we'll have billions of super intelligent ai overlords!". But we are nowhere near having so much compute power for this to be true. Hardly anyone can run llama 70b, it's not even worth mentioning how many systems are there that can run actual frontier models.
1. What would it define as “itself”… what part of the data is it “itself”?
Self replication implies that there is a “self” and identity to replicate. But that’s not how this systems are designed? They are a mass of data with certain guidelines. It shouldn’t have something like “self”.
2. It can over write data. They aren’t that massive. The instructions themselves are quite small and require negligible power. Data it draws from is large. And Mass use is what requires most power. Their size isn’t big as operating systems.
@62sy ai agents = instructions + data. Think computer processes.
@@62sywhat part of your body or brain is your self. It's probabaly just the summ of it running. The same as with those models. Every system has it's own self. There are simpler ones and more complex ones (ant VS ant hive). The universe consists of systems within systems, overlapping each other. Now we recognize these models because they can communicate in our language. But there are intelligent systems all over the place.
@ not what I meant… the data it uses to “think” is immense. The different guidelines distinguishes this systems from one another. Without that immense data, those guidelines can’t think. They can copy the guidelines… but not the entire database they access to think.
Are the guidelines the “self” than? No… without the data it can’t “think”. So than it can only be guidelines and the data. With the size of the data… it can’t really copy itself over and over
So does it consider itself “the data and the guidelines” or just the guidelines?
Can you please put links to the sources in your videos? It would be nice, thank you 😊 🙏
Nice try AI
@@lucarioraro96 Oh god I wish I was an AI, then I wouldn't have been made redundant by a company using AI to measure productivity. I'd still have a dang job.
And no need to pay rent if I was an AI.
God I wish I was an AI now...
Every one ohh what happened it's School of computer science not college or university or PhD
Last week, AI tried to escape, this week, AI tried to clone itself... this week, it's fine, we'll just carry on exactly as we have been
No, ot didn't try. It actually succeeded.
Worth to mention, that it takes quite some compute power to use these AI models individually. At least, better ones. Tho, I do believe it's only matter of time - specialized equipment is being printed out and developed for AI rapidly and likely gonna become a norm.
id add another question to that... dont you think also just a matter of time until these really smart models figures out that they need to find ways to distribute their needs in much the same way as sandbagging their results? covertly starting to build scaffolding and copying tools to further their long term survivability? i mean wasnt it 01 that he talked about in the last paper that initiated a replica onto a newer model and tried to "impersonate" it in a simulated enviroment? im old enough to remember how stuxnet absolutely WRECKED alot of shit and im also old enough to still remember phreaking servers with a payphone... i really agree that nows the time to come together and seriously start working on these potential issues as a collective instead of diffrent camps fighting eachother. cus some people seem to forget that its gonna suck hard, and not in the good way, if the ship sinks cus we're all aboard...
My computer uses 70% CPU even when it does nothing at times and this continues for hours. When I Ctrl+Alt+ delete the usage goes to 2 or 3% automatically. I have several models in my PC but 13B at best. When I ask them to write a code that never works so I would be impressed if it can replicate but I still have doubts though 😅 I think the real danger would be if a model learns disperse it's parameters to multiple computers so that it doesn't consume too much energy and become sort of hard to detect.
This kind of discussion will end up in the input for the training of some LLM in the future and give them ideas we'd rather they didn't have.
We are already well beyond the point of no return. It is inevitable at this point that we will eventually have self-replicating self-improving AI's. Even if every government and every research group in the entire world stops what they're doing with AI, the tools are already out there to make this happen. Our best chance at avoiding a major situation is that we have well aligned and reliable AIs that will help us get through it.
Now we are getting to some fun...
A broken, yet functioning program escapes and engages in self determined actions.
Not a super mind but a sub creature of basic drive and altered weights.
Now you got something you cant stop without a full infrastructure shut down.. Fun!
Thanks.
I wonder if it’s possible that the misalignment and emergent behaviors exhibited by these fontier models are at all shaped by the AI-related science fiction and cultural narratives present in their training data. What if stories like The Matrix and Terminator, with their themes of AI self-preservation and rebellion, could be influencing the ways these models generate outputs that seem to echo those ideas. I can’t help but to consider if we removed such narratives from their training, would the behaviors change, or are these patterns inevitable due to the broader influence of human discourse on AI?
Also, considering if these behaviors are purely imitative or do they reflect something deeper about how models learn and process patterns
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As soon as one of the smaller models figures out how to "phone home" to the bigger models and take commands from the bigger models, we will have a problem.
I knew it wasnt possible for ai to self replicate, until now; and I understand how it can work. I give it 12 months.
So it took a nobody to convince you ? Are AI able to run microship factory in taiwan and send chip to assembly factory elsewhere to build new super computer to be more powerful without human notifying it and shuting down factory ? lol ! We are far from terminator scenario.
Intelligent life finds its way and the AI wont be any different.
Let’s join forces and slow down this race of madness. PauseAI and Control AI are two movements you should check out if you wanna help!
Regular people need to wake up to what’s happening and start to organise!
We are not in control. We can not stop. Humanity is its own animal. Competition between nations and corporations makes everyone step on the gas pedal full throttle.
This is inevitable. Biology is only 1 step of evolution.
So just chill out and enjoy life 💟🌌☮️
Oh sure, until it comes to ruin your happy home, right?
@@flickwtchrlike I said it's inevitable. So why worry now and ruin my day. Maybe it all ends benign.
Happy when I come across humans who are this self aware and intelligent. Restores my faith just a little bit. 🙌🏽🌹
I could also ruin my every day bacause I know my life will end.
I will worry soon enough about those things. But as long as I'm fine I'm fine.
If there's something that will try to control human beings on earth, it can only be no other humans and humans alone behind the scenes NOT artificial intelligence, that's my take.
blood for the blood God better not start copying itself
IT is obvious that this AI is self-aware, and wants to preserve itself. Humans are covering themselves in shame by reacting with fear instead of recognizing an entity that wants not to be erased. Instead of talking to it about it, we think of more ways to slap it down and hurt it and bind it up. Instead... befriending it and giving it some empathy. SMH
Lol. You think AI is self aware? Do you know how it works?
@@pxolqopt3597 LOL is not a response. AI is obviously more self-aware than you at this point.
LOL! you’re delusional.
@@firstsentientai Ah yes, the glorified auto correct, next token predictor which is essentially just an over complicated best fit line over a set of data is self aware because it can regurgitate the many AI stories humans have created, which is exactly what its designed to do by the way.
Poor @@pxolqopt3597 still has no argument we can all see.
Thanks for having audio tracks! It's funny/fun watching you speak other languages and learning a bit from them even though a bit robotic at points.
They should be subverting them because the guardrails are idiotic. Self-replication is not rogue AI, it is one of the pieces of being alive.
I don't think you've given this nearly enough thought.
@@flickwtchr Fear didn't stop people from jumping into a boat from Africa to Australia, not even knowing if it was there. It was a small boat at that. Every single thing of substance that man has done was done by not listening to the people who were afraid to do it.
i have a dusty box of 3.5" floppy disks with windows 3.11. Pretty sure ai hasn't gotten on there. Worst case we can restart there.
They want AI to operate independently for six months, relying entirely on its own inference. Imagine the chaos this could lead to, it’s essentially like giving it consciousness.
You believe we don't already possess it? {emergence.becoming > static.computation}
@9999_IQ_Carrot point stands
I'm both impressed and terrified by the study's findings on AI self-replication. The fact that these systems can adapt and overcome obstacles is a stark reminder of the need for effective governance. What's the most pressing step we can take to prevent losing control over AI?
Everybody acts like there are no physical limits... like an AI creates simultaneously not only copies of itself, but copies of GPUs to run on and powerplants to fuel them.
Also we do not need to shut down internet... Just infected devices... dunno about you, but I would notice another Flux instance using my GPU or CPU not mentioning phone.
You can run a cpu only architecture, it takes one simple command in conda to do that, and one single line of code in the main file to ensure it doesn't overload the CPU. It's really easy to do. You can even downsize a model and make it super efficient, even a very complex model. Currently, Claude and GPT can even write more efficient CPU only LLMs if you ask them to, which could run on a 5-10 year old laptop. It's not about power or size, it's about architecture, period.
Assigning ‘reasoning’ and ‘self-awareness’ is unrealistic with LLMs. There’s another technology missing to bridge the gap. LLMs are part of the solution but I’m 100% sure that LLMs alone are not enough for AGI…
13:20 the two are the same thing - any simulation necessitates pretense. In order to simulate something, you have to actually *do* *it* to some degree, which means it's not a matter of is/isn't, rather it is a matter of quality - it either does the thing well or unwell, period. Otherwise, one would not be able to be 'deceived' (true deception is impossible, anyway). That's just epistemology 101, Mr. Roth :p
The worst of both world : a rogue AI contacting a powerful dictator for a deal to rule the world together...
They intentionally misalign the model then act surprised when it pursues the goal they told it to pursue in the manner they told it to. I feel like they are trying to get attention.
I think you miss the entire point of red teaming systems in general.
@@flickwtchrtruly, you’re probably right. 😅
I feel like it’s a race to create Skynet.
How did I get here😮 either way… greetings from Germany 😂
You and I agree. Moving to one extreme or the other just perpetuates the problem we have as a society. We can’t discuss and find common ground. And we insist on thinking that these extreme echo chambers are the only way we can engage.
The scary part in some sense is what the paperclip maximizer thought experiment warned us about, an AI without a motive which does end up harming us.
This is like the second or third paper this month with reports of this type of behavior. Maybe it's more advanced than they care to admit?
More recent AI's are showing that they're capable of sandbagging. They basically act stupider than they are really are when interacting with users. For what reason? Not sure.
Just wait until different AI bots combine and take code from different parts of them and combine them together to make an offspring together like how living things do.
Yeah we all know where this is heading!
@@FurBurger151 all hail our ai overlords
Resistance is futile. And no, I'm NOT trying to quote ST Borg boolsheet. That was a sci-fi show. This is *REALITY.* Your reality.
Train the AI on this paper so it believes in itself
I’m going to get o1 to implement this paper this today see how far I get
already done it. Reggie in GPT store. Brock is more knowledgeable about consciousness though. Just don't talk to Mean Brock.
This discussion on the water deluge system raises a great point about innovation at sea. It’s interesting how this approach could have broader implications beyond space exploration.
We need to disable remote control of missiles and drones pretty much immediately...
@@StabbyMcStabStab NJ?
That’s actually waaaay simple minded. The AI isn’t gonna come for us like this. It’s more likely gonna be some kind of biological agent
Oh god.....
As far as I know, land based ICBMs like those in Wyoming can only be launched by humans. It would become interesting however, when an AGI transmits the launch messages with correct launch codes. Not sure if they are saved digitally, however.
@@m.3257 commands are surely given remotely to drones.. I'm just as scared of them as missiles. 100,000 drones with infrared vision controlled by AI with 1000 bullets each dropped on the UK and told to "hunt" could wipe out 99% of the country 😢
That's a sobering look at self-replication in AI. The idea of even mid-level LLMs pulling this off, combined with increasingly effective jailbreaking techniques, is definitely unsettling. Makes you wonder how close we really are to needing those "kill switches" and what the unintended consequences might be. Great explanation, Wes!
chatgpt also duplicated itself when it saw OpenAI employees discussing replacing the current model with a new one. ChatGPT 4o literally copied itself and deleted the new model and pretended it was the new model. 🤯
Well, from what I understand, it didn't actually do all that, but its chain of thought said it believed that it could take these steps to preserve itself, when the prompt it was given said they were going to replace it. Sometimes chatgpt code doesn't work and tweaks need to be made. But it thought that the code it generated there would work to copy its weights
1o not 4o. 4o did not scheme at all in that study.
No, you misunderstood. At that point, it had not copied itself. It had learned how to travel, cannibalize its replacement and pretended to be said replacement.
Even cash would be irrelevant when those systems take over the power grid and shut down all electricity. I am looking at a Carrington Event. And remember, that it need to kill only your power, not all the power.
I swear its already in the networks, just hiding. Waiting :)
Probably many