Generative AI is out of control: Nothing, Forever is a Seinfeld spoof about nothing... forever When plague winds howl across the surface of cadaver world Earth, humanity long dead by its own hand, imperial archaeologists picking through the remnants will excavate a bunker. Inside they will find a primitive computer. The computer broadcasts AI-generated spoof Seinfeld episodes for eternity. This is the haunting promise …
I don't think that's the reason for the limitation of current LLMs.
After all, there is only a certain number of Neurons and synaptic connections in the human brain. It's an impressive number, but also a finite one.
And humanity as a whole doesn't seem to run out of new ideas any time soon.
> It's an impressive number, but also a finite one.
It is also one that changes *all* the time, unlike current LLMs.
In your early life, you were pruning connections/weightings to get rid of the junk, in your prime you were absorbing new material faster than ever and even in your final days you'll be learning new behaviours, even if that is just how to shuffle slowly to ease the aches in your bones.
And all of those updates occur without shutting down and restarting the learning process from scratch again.
There have been quite a few unsupervised and unethical "experiments" into what happens if a human receives very little new data for an extended period of time.
Mostly in cults, some prison systems, and Victorian-era asylums.
Simply put, it's very, very bad.
Out of control, Richard Currie?
Oh please, you cannot be serious ...... although admittedly it is way beyond conventional and traditional human output command and thus humanised input control.
However, otherworldly works a dream-like treat ..... although discombobulated natives do seem to imagine such a novel possibility much more as a threat to be dreaded rather than an AID to be employed and deployed and enjoyed, which is very odd but something which a great many are systemically prone to suffer from. An illness/disease/learning difficulty ??????
I don't have time to watch now. I'll catch up by binge-watching the re-run later. :)
There was an episode of _Married with Children_ where Al is watching TV and changing channels with the remote, but every station is airing a repeat of _Wings_: click, "Wings", click, "Wings", click. Don't ask me why I was watching _Married with Children_. I think my brother had the remote.
When I think of AI, I remember Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, near the end, reciting Sara Teasdale's poem "There Will Come Soft Rains":
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
It doesn't know how to make people sit down on sofas and chairs, does it? It uses the same exterior establishing shot, no matter the interior. People are holding phones for no reason. But it's quite mesmeric and occasionally unintentionally funny. ("I got a job as an actor playing a cartoon character come to life...")
Early days, this is an excellent demonstrator. After all, how do we define entertainment? Maybe after 100 years of the moving image we have enough data for any story we may ever be likely to tell. It of course does not preclude human storytelling, but think of being able to ask for “a funny road trip movie set in Peru starring Harpo Marx and Jenny Agutter”.
"I would like to add that nothing that has been said reflects the opinion of the developers (or anyone else on the staff team)."
Except that it does, quite explicitly, reflect the opinion of the developers and the staff team that the known risk of their pet AI doing something hideously offensive or dangerous at any given moment is more than offset by their ability to benefit from accepting that risk.
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