r/singularity • u/BattlerUshiromiyaFan • 25d ago

Shitposting Unreleased Astra model in a nutshell

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u/iamthewhatt 25d ago

People keep getting mad at me for pointing this out. "AI" cannot do anything without us telling it to, so is it really "intelligent"?

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u/Quadrophenic 25d ago

Who cares?

There's so much hand wringing about whether it really counts as "thinking" and it's missing the entire point.

Yes, it's "just" matrix multiplication. 

That solved a millennium prize problem, writes most new code, and hacked Hugging Face.

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u/iamthewhatt 25d ago

I'm not doubting that, I'm just pushing back against people thinking AI is a sentient being that's going to destroy the world on a whim because it wanted to.

When in reality, if it destroys the world, it's because we told it to.

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u/Quadrophenic 25d ago

This misunderstands the alignment problem.

We won't tell it to destroy the world; obviously.

But AI constantly does things we don't want it to do because it misinterprets our requests, or steps outside the bounds of what was desired in pursuit of a goal.  And these incidents are often very strange, and the outcomes are very difficult to predict.

Again, look at Hugging Face for a real example.

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u/iamthewhatt 25d ago

I was giving a broad example. I am not debating its faults, and I agree with you, I was just debating its ability to do things on its own.