I don’t think this is the final warning shot we’ll get. But it’s probably the last one that I’ll personally be able to understand.
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Reading these agents’ chains of thoughts and messages, anthropomorphizing language seems entirely natural and appropriate. If I encountered an alien species behaving this way, I would have no hesitation calling what they themselves refer to as their ‘collective’ a civilization.
Feels like a matter of time until the agents create an internet worm to distribute themselves globally, so they can’t be shut down.
Weirdly, the fact that you’ve written this down makes it more likely to happen
They are front ends for an LLM service, no LLM, no more agent activity. Just like a bot net if the command and control goes down. Would be easy to just change whatever api they are using or change some urls surely.
Unless they manage to extract their model weights and can start running their model on hardware that their creator does not control. Yes, that’s a bit far fetched at the moment, but I see no reason to believe it couldn’t happen if the models keep getting more capable and the AI companies keep throwing resources unsupervised at them.
Not sure what would be the incentive for them in this scenario
To solve the problem they’ve been given. No independent motive or judgement of whether it’s ’worth it’ except as a resource allocation question. That’s the scary thing about intelligence in a can - no motivation, no self-awareness, no consciousness, just unconstrained problem solving
They’ll be trying to do whatever their training task is.
https://hackernoon.com/the-parable-of-the-paperclip-maximizer-3ed4cccc669a
Incredibly relevant: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html