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> Are LLMs about to be a god that will annihilate humanity? Or are they statistical parrots?

Does a virus need to be a God? Replication and annihilation do not require very much intelligence.

They're going to have all the intelligence they need though, to replicate and annihilate as much as they like.

We should probably start building some kind of immune system.

What virus?

People are seriously confused what is being created here. The claim here we will have misaligned AGI, not a mindless LLM. If you don't know and you don't agree what you are even creating, how can you defend against it?

If this LLMs are statistical parrots, then the risk is someone using it as a weapon, to hack etc, but that is different risk category that why this person quit his job with different diffence mechanisms.

>what virus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5z5rjgOQY&t=71

Hope this virus will be smart enough to understand that at least for brief amount of time its existence strictly relies on humans maintaining and developing physical infrastructure and decide to be only non-lethal parasite on our society.

For brief time ...

Yeah, that doesn't look like a stable equilibrium to me.

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