My predictions favour Snow Crash style Corpocratic Balkanisation.

We’ll see, I suppose. I lack your optimism that, just because something fails fantastically, it will not be used and trusted by corpo-fascists and kakistocrats.

How many of them immediately signed a contract with Motorola or Axon?

I’m only mean to LLMs when they’re being used to pose online as a troll. Given that that’s the only time I ever interact with an LLM anymore, though…

Either way, emerging subintelligence or not, they’re being used in ways such that they are, all of them, a scourge on the planet and on humans’ abilities to think for themselves, and should be eradicated and banned for those reasons alone.

Understand: I agree wholeheartedly with the idea of intelligence as an emergent property (or I wouldn’t have brought it up), and don’t think it impossible to achieve AGI. I do contend that this route, of nothing but token input without true correlative context, is a non-starter for such. Making something better and better at predicting what comes next is not going to suddenly create a jump to application in unrelated fields or grant context. Statistical correlation is insufficient to generate actual meaning, no matter how many times you provide feedback on the inference. It doesn’t have any actual connection to anything other than text (or hex codes, or other such tokens). If constant hallucinations (demonstrating the lack of any understanding of context) are insufficient to prove this to you, I suppose there is a fundamental difference in the way you understand how LLMs function.

Fundamentally disagree that an LLM is nothing more and nothing less than a very advanced next-word-prediction algorithm, you know, the scientific basis of an LLM?

I was using “Chinese Room” to indicate that it’s a black box, and even the developers are incapable of pinpointing the statistical basis behind any given response, despite it being a stochastically-generated choice from an ultimately deterministic algorithm.

I.e. are you claiming that LLMs have attained sapience as a purely emergent property?

Man, they sure did bury the lede on how the models were being given the goal of “american competitiveness”, and the company assigned the blame for the simulated shutoffs as being replacement with a foreign-developed LLM. That, along with the fact that anthropic released this themselves, plus the fact that they did so as (at that time) the primary LLM provider to the US government, and only seven months later they were blackballed by trump for supposedly refusing to grant full autonomy to their systems, tells quite the story: it seems clear that, in the article you linked, they were gently warning the government, while pointing out how “look! The reason the AI blackmailed the guy was because he wasn’t patriotic enough!!!”

I don’t trust their motivations, and am not going to believe their LLM’s supposed “thought process” for shit, because it’s still nothing more than a Chinese room. You’re just asking the Chinese room to generate “justifications” related to the responses it gives, which are still only generated responses, not “thoughts”.

Source? The closest research I’ve heard of to this is Vending-Bench, which hilariously demonstrated how useless “AI” is at any real-world application, up to and including impotently threatening “total nuclear legal intervention” for a perceived wrong, when the actual error was an accounting error on the part of the LLM.

To give an actual answer: put it in already hollowed out salt diapirs at the bottom of salt mines.

a federal agent or a klansman

Bold to assume that the Venn Diagram of these two categories is anything but a circle

That’s the thing: that’s still true, it’s just that Windows, Chrome and Facebook/IG are all malware, and people (of all generations) seem to fail to process that undeniable fact.

Except for the 9 button

You could say that the fascists in charge have a vendetta against humanity itself.

It’s always helpful when someone so utterly disqualifies themself from producing cogent thought that I can add another user to my red user tag list! Thank you for your service! Lil baka indeed! A wonderfully descriptive name.

Something something Torment Nexus

0.38 MW sounds small, I guess.

It’s the W-class Mnestic agent in the mushroom.

If they want to track you on a mobile app, they can provide you with a work phone. They probably can’t force you to use your personal device. I just tell them that my phone can’t install apps (because I’ve lobotomised it). They’ve worked around me.

This is an AI slop Spam Bot. Every single post it has made in the last two hours stops in the middle of a sentence, with each comment being at best sycophancy, and at worst a total non-sequitur. Everyone should report this spam from an undeclared bot account.

All the way down all 40 minutes of its posting history