> In which case, how long until the AI capable of creating self-replicating machines realizes it doesn't need to listen to humans anymore, or even keep them around?
Transformer models don't realize or need stuff.
Transformer models don't realize or need stuff.
All we know for sure is that sensory data is generated, the brain does what it does, and then we have acted. We can’t break that down too well once it leaves the visual areas, but there is clear data that the linguistic form of decisions and so on lag behind the neurological signs of the action.
And humans have a well known tendency to make a decision on a linguistic level that they then fail to carry out in the realm of actions.