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>>vforgi+(OP)
Imagine thinking that regression based function approximators are capable of anything other than fitting the data you give it. Then imagine willfully hyping up and scaring people who don't understand, and because it can predict words you take advantage of the human tendency to anthropomorphize, so it follows that it is something capable of generalized and adaptable intelligence.

Shame on all of the people involved in this: the people in these companies, the journalists who shovel shit (hope they get replaced real soon), researchers who should know better, and dementia ridden legislators.

So utterly predictable and slimy. All of those who are so gravely concerned about "alignment" in this context, give yourselves a pat on the back for hyping up science fiction stories and enabling regulatory capture.

>>srslac+I7
Generating new data similar to what’s in a training set set isn’t the only type of AI that exists, you can also optimise a different goal, like board game playing AIs that are vastly better than humans because they aren’t trained on human moves. This is also how ChatGPT is more polite than the data it’s trained on, and there’s no reason to think that given sufficient compute power it couldn’t be more intelligent too, like board game AIs are at the specific task of playing board games.

And just because a topic has been covered by science fiction doesn’t mean it can’t happen, the sci-fi depictions will be unrealistic though because they’re meant to be dramatic rather than realistic