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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 75 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The idea that GPT has a mind and wants to self-preserve is insane. It's still just text prediction, and all the literature it's trained on is written by humans with a sense of self preservation, of course it'll show patterns of talking about self preservation.

It has no idea what self preservation is, even then it only knows it's an AI because we told it it is. It doesn't even run continuously anyway, it literally shuts down after every reply and its context fed back in for the next query.

I'm tired of this particular kind of AI clickbait, it needlessly scares people.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago

Where do humans get the idea of self-preservation from? Are there ideal Forms outside Plato's Cave?

Does a human run continuously? How does sleep deprivation work? What happens during anesthesia? Why does AutoGPT have a continuously self-evaluating background chain of thought?

I'm tired of this anthropocentric supremacy complex, it falsely makes people believe in Gen 1:28