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I know you're only kidding, but your mind can prioritize based on importance. We have some framework on top of our associative models. AI, currently, uses us, for this. We prioritize when we seek out data to use in training, filter it, reinforce some of it, tune the model afterwards again, and so on.

But truth is, all of this will also be, and already is being automated. GPT-4 was created by GPT-3.5. And GPT-5 will be created by GPT-4. And so on.

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> AI, currently, uses us, for this

This implies will, which is highly doubtful.

Your statement is ambiguous. It implies whose will to do what?

We could argue, for example, that a virus doesn't want to exist, and has no intent, doesn't plan and so on, and we'd be mostly right in this, but in the end, it enters a cell and uses its reproduction facilities to replicate itself. That's... what happens. So arguing about "will" might distract from the end result, it might make us feel better or in control, or both, but it's a pyrrhic victory.

Language is a self replicating system. It might not have a will, but it has a drive to replicate. Ideas have a life cycle, they get born, spread, mutate and evolve. I think my extension a LLM will have the drive to spread language.

Indeed, we're used to assign agency only to ourselves. But that's simply our anthropocentric mind speaking. We're systems and LLM is also a system. And the fact how useful LLM seems compels us to evolve it and replicate it. Same as a virus presents itself as valid RNA to a cell, and a cell is compelled to replicate the virus.

An LLM doesn't have to "want" it itself, but it wants it.. through us, because we want it. The fact our desire may turn out self-destructive is a separate thing. It's like drugs. Like this Marylin Manson's song "I don't want the drugs, but the drugs want me."

> LLM will have the drive to spread language

Spread language where?

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