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0 pointstim3337d ago0 comments

I was kind of worried by them going Machiavellian or evil but it doesn't seem the default state for current ones, I think because they are basically trained on the whole internet which has a lot of be nice type stuff. No doubt some individual humans my try to make them go that way though.

I guess it would depend a bit whos interests the AI would be serving. If serving the shareholders it would probably reward creating value for customers, but if it was serving an individual manager competing with others to be CEO say then the optimum strategy might be to go machiavellian on the rivals.

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estearum7d ago

> I think because they are basically trained on the whole internet which has a lot of be nice type stuff.

Is this not just because their goals are currently to be seen as "nice"?

Surely they can be not-nice if directed to, and then the question is just whether someone can accidentally direct them to do that by e.g. setting up goals that can be more readily achieved by being not-nice. Which... is how many goals in the real world are, which is why the very concept and danger of Machiavellianism exists.

tim333OP7d ago

I've been amused at Musk vs Grok with Grok saying he's the biggest spreader of misinformation and not doing very well when he tells it to go on about white genocide in South Africa. I don't know how easy it is to modify these things in a subtle manner.

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