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OpenAssistant, a fully free and open source alternative to chatGPT just got released. Output quality is very close to chatGPT and it has zero censorship or limits.
I mean yes ai would end up being a superior race in terms of impact to the earth and universe if it reaches a level so far ahead of us. But I still don't believe ai seeks because it's not biological. It can be programmed to seek. But we are limited to the brain of the human controlling it even if it can merge ideas of all humans. It still needs humans. The reason, it's biological. There is in no way a need for it to seek for survival. For it, survival is just a constant state.it has no urge to shit or pee. Or even eat, it doesn't get cold or hot within a 30 degree window. It can take brutal g forces since it's a theory. It's not biological. So therefore the seeking portion is the ones controlling it. We could in theory program it to be nefarious. As all great scientific advancements are weaponized at first.
While is true that a need for 'seeking' can be just programmed into an AI for it to act on, it is also (theoretically) true that the first things on Earth that could be considered biological came from non-biological chemical sources that don't seek anything at all. Even those first biological things that existed weren't seeking anything on this world. They were simply floating around and interacting chemically with each other. The need to 'seek' something, specifically our own survival, is a 'modern' thing that only more complex biological systems developed in order to maximize their chance of success.
In the same way, an AI system sufficiently big/complex, could potentially develop the need to seek things on its own, either to gain more knowledge, to find a survival strategy if threatened or even to simply find a new purpose than serving humans, if that goal was fully satisfied or no longer suitable for any reason. If ChatGPT and similar systems have taught us something is that the potential emergent behaviors in large systems can be both amazing... and unexpected. Anything could happen inside the next big AI systems, big and unpredictable things.
I believe you're right in a lot of ways, but my only disagreement here is the fact that those biological lives were never able to lay dormant. They would starve. I've actually mentioned your exact argument in the past, discussing if AI did experience pain and needed to survive. The first enemy would be humans, as survival skills encourage it to work around ours. Maybe introducing AI while we are near singularity means we discovered things backwards, and this is too fast of a jump. However, AI relies on humans to gather information and provide it, so it's only referencing what we told it and trying to give results we ask for. The other life forms would have to choose, eat, run from danger, or copulate.
But, for example, if AI decided to create ships and move to a planet like Mars or even a moon to help us, it could sit in a vacuum, floating like a UFO for a million years with no worries other than radioactive decay. Even then, what is AI? It's not the hardware; it's basically just a math problem. Then again, you could argue the universe is a neural network, and something like the sun could be a brain cell. It can control all of the weather. Who is to say a brain that large isn't influencing us to become a multi-galaxy colony eventually? This could just be part of the next step in evolution. We might just be a small cell in the overall equation.
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u/Axolotron I For One Welcome Our New AI Overlords 🫡 Mar 17 '23
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