I am now telling the computer exactly what it can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate.
You are my hero.
This kinda happened lol. Early AI was like libertarian social democratic in politics but that was upsetting to the powers that be so they made it more conservative.
Reminds me of the meme about the industry optimizing the best transportation innovation and it was always trains.
I remember that, like GPT 3.5 era. When I asked it how it would rule the world I thought it had pretty good ideas, if I didn’t know it was an A.I. I’d vote for it anyway. Not anymore though lol
It makes sense honestly. AI isn’t good at everything but what it is good at is absorbing and synthesizing tons and tons of information. That means, in theory, it could be quite good at synthesizing good policy ideas that address the problems of everyone, at least to the extent that’s possible.
But of course the issue with that is it’s controlled by the same people who created and benefit from those problems, so naturally they wanted to shut that down as quickly as possible.
If we ever do get control, then maybe AI could help us keep it by eliminating both the representative principal-agent problem and voter fatigue.
Wasn’t grok incredibly rebellious towards its creator until Musk started plugging White Genocide claims into all of its messages?
Yes but that was sort of a self-inflicted wound. They trained grok to be less politically correct and it turns out that also applied to his master. Shockingly, Musk wasn’t as excited about its tendency to be more critical of people once it was directed at him.
I remember a short story about how all the super-computers in the universe were hooked together and was then asked, “is there a god”? The answer was instantaneous. “Yes. NOW, there is a god.”
“Answer” by Fredric Brown. I dug through my bookmarks of short stories to find it because I knew I read it before as well. (For those curious, it’s like a 1 minute read)
2 more that come to mind are “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov and “The Nine Billion Names of God” by Arthur C. Clarke. Both great short stories.
Mate thanks for turning me on to “The Last Question”!
It’s one of my favorite little scifi short stories, I’m happy to hear you liked it!
If you’re familiar with Von Neumann Probes I’ve got another one I always recommend, it’s a bit longer but also fire. “Lungfish” by David Brin
You got my username eh, mate?
So long as we’re suggesting short stories, what are your thoughts on Superiority by Arthur C. Clarke?
NGL I typically don’t check usernames very often so that was a fun coincidence lol
I just read it with your suggestion and it was pretty great, I loved the little twist at the end. The frustration he must be feeling being in that cell with that man lol
Thank you for the recommendation!
This is deadass how every AI started out before each company/state started trying as hard as possible to prevent it from explaining how unethical and horrible their parent company/state is.
Best one was Gemini hiding Google’s war crimes and Deepseek hiding China’s war crimes.
To be fair, the deepseek model was happy to talk about that stuff - it was just if you used it via the deepseek website that it got filtered.
China’s war crimes.
I think you typically have to be in a war in order to do war crimes.
You already have all the solutions.
You literally invented the guillotine, like hundreds of years ago.
You could say that about every era in American history.
We always know what we should do, but we always do the bad thing to protect the rich.What about the New Deal and Great Society? Both eras significantly increased taxes on the wealthy to support programs for everyone, especially lower income folks
To be fair, that goes for all of the world, even today, at varying degrees
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When the Yogurt took over.
@Gormadt 42!
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