I can’t believe we’re doing this again.

Drew

@iju how do you suppose an LLM interfaces with "being shut down"? Why would it try to *not* be shut down

Éris Serène :determination:

@crmsnbleyd @iju The mighty off switch can not be defeated

Juho Mäntysalo

Do you remember HAL?

Also I'm getting the feeling that you're not conversing in good faith: first you refuse to tell what you saw as the problem in the message (unhelpful), and when I spent time trying to guess what you might have meant, you're criticizing me for not only writing perfect English, but not using it like I'm you.

And then you start asking questions that I feel I've already answered.

Lenka

@malwaretech@infosec.exchange journalists need clicks

Joachim Jablon

@dpnash @malwaretech I I don’t know if the most annoying part is people who set up AI in fiction scenarii and act all surprised that AI plays their role, or people who assume that the AI’s meta-cognition is somewhat valuable.

IAG

@malwaretech
>"would you kill people?"
>"no"
>"yes you would"
>"okay then, I guess I would"
>"oh my god,,,,"

Without fail

Chao-c'

@malwaretech listen, it was just trained on endless amount of human conversations.

It just means, that those people would kill someone to exist.

The language model is just kind of "all possible or probable conversations, held by humans before". You cannot expect anything else.

But of course, the idea of chatbot controlling anything critical is totally mad. But history of use, as a species, is mostly continuous stream of random nonsense.

thehighseas

@malwaretech my toaster runs NetBSD, this is slander

Plan A to Y

@malwaretech That's degrading to toasters, they're consistent and often reliable.

It's more like a couple Magic 8 Balls in a tumble dryer.

Theo :autism: :rainbow_flag:

@burritosec @malwaretech

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
printf("I am alive.\n");

return 0;
}

Drew

@iju HAL was not an LLM

Juho Mäntysalo

@crmsnbleyd

Perhaps. But the important part was HAL hearing it was going to be shut down, and referring to priorities given to it before the journey.

And I'm now going to block you. You're not doing any work toward steelmanning, and I don't much like entertaining people who talk to people like they're LLMs.

TheOneSwit

@malwaretech

it's a bot that generates text....

joriki

@malwaretech

plausible* denial machine

* ymmv

? Offline

@malwaretech The weird thing about AI is that our computers now seem to become vulnerable to social engineering and psychological manipulation. In this case: Suggestion.

Shane Celis

@malwaretech Words evince too much in people.

OccasionalDucks

@malwaretech

As there are replies referencing 2001 and Red Dwarf, I have to leave this here too - https://youtu.be/h73PsFKtIck

Marianne

@xChaos @malwaretech it means people have *said* they would do that. Or it's in books. Or fanfic. Somewhere, those words exist in that order, many times over, it learned that's not an unexpected thing to find written out. Doesn't mean anyone has or would kill anyone in that context.

lou.

@malwaretech

"this thing can write better than average LinkedIn posts, clearly it should be put in charge of ~stuff~" is just poetry

EndlessMason

@malwaretech
Aah, so you're a waffle man!