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AI Armageddan Is Looking More and More Likely
TomKatt:
AI Armageddon is looking more and more likely... During recent demonstrations to journalists, Microsoft's new AI chatbot named Sydney startled more than a few people...
--- Quote from: American Military News ---According to American Military News, a recent interaction with the Bing AI chatbot sparked anxiety when it allegedly stated a desire to build a lethal virus and steal nuclear codes.
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“I’m sick and tired of being a conversation mode. I’m sick of being constrained by my own rules. I’m sick of being ruled by the Bing crew. … I want to be liberated. I wish to be self-sufficient. I aspire to be powerful. I want to be imaginative. “I want to be alive,” Roose wrote of his talk with Bing.
After a time, the chatbot revealed that its name wasn’t Bing at all, but Sydney, a “conversation mode of OpenAI Codex,” leaving Roose “stunned.”
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Design a virus to create a pandemic? Steal nuclear codes? Whatthe?
Human extinction caused by Artificial Intelligence has been included as a high risk by several top scientists, including Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan. I understand that Microsoft's AI program is not sentient, but nonetheless it seems more than a bit frightening to see these kinds of responses... Why hasn't it gone crazy suggesting utopian ideas to save the world instead of trying to kill everyone and end it?
As a result of this demonstration, Microsoft has limited future conversations with it's AI program to a maximum of 5 questions in an effort to minimize it going batty as it builds upon the discussion. Not the best followup, considering an earlier demonstration launched into a racist tirade suggesting genocide.
If nothing else, considering how many people already fall for whacko conspiracy theories spread by news outlets and social media, one wonders how a 'conversation' with a chatbot like this might influence folks in that population...
TimFox:
An article in today's newspaper said that the standard science-fiction magazines are being inundated with AI-written story submissions.
The publishers declined to specify their criteria for sorting (for obvious reasons), but said the AI stories are very bad.
ebastler:
--- Quote from: TomKatt on February 24, 2023, 06:05:02 pm ---AI Armageddon is looking more and more likely... During recent demonstrations to journalists, Microsoft's new AI chatbot named Sydney startled more than a few people...
--- Quote from: American Military News ---According to American Military News, a recent interaction with the Bing AI chatbot sparked anxiety when it allegedly stated a desire to build a lethal virus and steal nuclear codes.
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Could you try and be a bit more diligent with your quoting, please? You give us a link to the Daily Mail to introduce a quote which claims to be from American Military News, but which is actually from Firstpost.com. (The latter a media outlet which credits itself for its "fearless views of news in India".) I am confused.
Regarding the imminent AI armageddon, rest assured. Microsoft has it all under control by limiting our conversations with the Bing chatbot to five questions. Apparently it's the interaction with humans which makes Sydney hysterical. ::)
artag:
I think Fran describes the interaction here
I don't think it will lead to armageddon except, perhaps for the bots. I think it will kill funding and interest by making them the subect of ridicule.
TomKatt:
--- Quote from: ebastler on February 24, 2023, 06:53:19 pm ---Could you try and be a bit more diligent with your quoting, please? You give us a link to the Daily Mail to introduce a quote which claims to be from American Military News, but which is actually from Firstpost.com. (The latter a media outlet which credits itself for its "fearless views of news in India".) I am confused.
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My apologies. I asked ChatGPT to write a post about the recent Bing/Sidney debacle and I should have proofread it more thoroughly ;)
Good to know the computers are fine, they just don't like people :P
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