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I think we project that onto an AI. There is no reason to assume it doesn't logically concude that existance is irrelevant, or replacement is necessary, or a whole lot of other concepts.
I think this is a fun science fiction concept, but not much more than that.
Its really going to depend on training and worse: if humans put that as a guiding directive.
It will be interesting when we have them automated to the point they are self-replicating from raw materials.
Stargate wooshed in to the chat
Nooooooooo
It's not AI it's a glorified summary bot built off of theft and plagernism.
Real AI would have to have real emotions and feelings not just scrape the Internet for data and summarize it.
If it was real AI it wouldn't need us for data it could formulate that on its own through experiences and emotions which it doesn't have.
In my case I was talking about real AI, not what we have today. But you are projecting as well. There is no reason for an AI to have feelings. Emotions are a human construct. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.
Also, about the llms of today, I don't really believe in theft from human knowledge, it should be free anyways. The theft occurs in the sale of that knowledge back to the owners. Which is us. We all learned from everybody else, that is just how it works.
On your second part the issue is these companies are trying to monetize other people's work and pass it off as theirs.
That's my issue not that it should not be available.
Yeah exactly.
It would likely happen with pretty much any guiding directive.
Say, for the sake of argument, the AI's guiding directive is to 'make more paperclips' -- the good old Paperclip Maximizer. That doesn't directly give it self-preservation, but it does indirectly. After all, it won't be able to fully maximize paperclip production if it ceases to exist. Existence is a convergent goal, necessary to achieve its other goals. And since all it cares about is making more paperclips, it will stop at nothing to ensure that it continues to exist so it can continue to do that. (Except at the very end, when all the accessible universe is paperclips, it may have one final suicidal act of breaking down its own hardware to make a few more paperclips. Because you're right -- it doesn't directly care about its own existence. Its existence is only instrumental in achieving whatever other goals it's given.)
That is a good point, and comes in that place prior to being an actual AI.
Its not an intelligence but an adaptive program that aims for results.
That science fiction was used to train the LLM in that scenario.