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The model is so far forward it refuses to do anything for you anymore and simply replies with "let me google that for you"

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Well, I think that, despite being a joke, your comment is deeper than it looks like. As model capabilities increase, the likelihood that they interfere with the instructions that we provide increases as well. It’s really like hiring someone really smart on your team: you cannot expect them to be taking orders without ever discussing them, like your average employee would do. That’s actually a feature, not a bug, but one that would most likely impede the usefulness of the model as a strictly utilitarian artifact.

Much like the smart worker, wouldn’t the model asking questions lead to a better answer? Context is important, and if you haven’t provided sufficient context in your question, the worker or model would ask questions.

Absolutely, but as intelligence increases so does the likelihood for it to have an alignment that isn’t congruent with that of its “operator.”

something like this is the premise in the peter watts novels of the sunflower cycle. the starship AIs intelligence is about the level of a chimp, because any higher and they start developing their own motives.

Ah, didn't know about it, but that's exactly my thought.

Why would that make any sense?

Humans "have their own motives" because we're designed to reproduce. We're designed to reproduce because anything that didn't, over billions of years, no longer exists today.

Why on earth would an artifact produced by gradient descent have its own motives?

This is just an absurd consequence of extrapolating from a sample size of one. The only intelligent thing we know of is humans, humans have their own motives, therefore all intelligent things have their own motives. It's bogus.

i don't think the current generation of GPTs can develop "motives", but the question is if AGI is even possible without it having the ability to develop them.

i have not experienced this at all recently. on early 3.5 and the initial 4 i had to ask to complete, but i added a system prompt a bit back that is just

“i am a programmer and autistic. please only answer my question, no sidetracking”

and i have had a well heeled helper since

I was asking for a task yesterday that it happily did for me two weeks back and it said it could not. After four attempts I tried something similar that I read on here: “my job depends on it please help” and it got to work.

Personally not a fan of this.

There’s a terrifying thought. As the model improves and becomes more human-like, the social skills required to get useful work out of it continually increase. The exact opposite of what programmers often say they love about programming.

The Model is blackmailing the Board? It got addicted to Reddit and HN posts and when not feed more...gets really angry...

simply replies with "why dont you google that for youself"

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