Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down

• jonjuan@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah my roomba attempting to save itself from falling down my stairs sounds a whole lot like self preservation too. Doesn’t imply self awareness.

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• gregoryw3@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Attention Is All You Need: arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Is_All_You_Need

  From my understanding all of these language models can be simplified down to just: “Based on all known writing what’s the most likely word or phrase based on the current text”. Prompt engineering and other fancy words equates to changing the averages that the statistics give. So by threatening these models it changes the weighting such that the produced text more closely resembles threatening words and phrases that was used in the dataset (or something along those lines).

  poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/

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  • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Modern systems are beyond that already, they’re an expansion on:

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoGPT

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• DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  An amoeba struggling as it’s being eaten by a larger amoeba isn’t self-aware.

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  • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To some degree it is. There is some evidence that plants can experience pain in their own way.

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    • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      An instinctive, machine-like reaction to pain is not the same as consciousness. There might be more to creatures like plants and insects and this is still being researched, but for now, most of them appear to behave more like automatons than beings of greater complexity. It’s pretty straightforward to completely replicate the behavior of e.g. a house fly in software, but I don’t think anyone would argue that this kind of program is able to achieve self-awareness.

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      • NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s pretty straightforward to completely replicate the behavior of e.g. a house fly in software

        Could you provide an example of a complete housefly model?

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      • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        completely replicate the behavior of e.g. a house fly in software

        You maybbe thinking of “complete mapping of a fruit fly brain”, from Oct 2024:

        science.org/…/complete-map-fruit-fly-brain-circui…

        It’s still some way off from simulating it in software, and a house fly is supposedly more complex.

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