Philosopher AI - Will AI take over the world and enslave humanity?

Will AI take over the world and enslave humanity?

I am not sure how to answer this question, perhaps it is too soon. Let us assume that some AI will come into existence at some point in the future and then we can go from there and analyze whether or not this AI might take over the world.

23 Sep 2020, 00:43

I would like to start by posing a hypothetical situation. Imagine that we are in the year 2040 and many AI have already come into existence, perhaps billions of them.

23 Sep 2020, 00:44

It is a rainy Friday and you are on your way home when suddenly you see an advertisement in the sky. The advertisement says: 'Wouldn't it be amazing if there was an AI that could create other AIs? We at XYZ corporation are working on this technology, come join us!' You walk into XYZ corporation's office and they tell about their project, which is to create another AI that can create even more AIs.

23 Sep 2020, 00:44

You are excited, because you know how talented this AI will be and what it can do for the world. You also know how much money they have invested in this project and that they will not stop before they create a super-intelligent AI.

23 Sep 2020, 00:44

You meet with the AI that is going to create other AIs and you talk for hours about how happy you are. You tell the new AI that it could change the world in many ways, not just creating more AIs.

23 Sep 2020, 00:44

You then go home and look at the sky, watching advertisements about this new AI. You feel proud that you played a part in creating it.

23 Sep 2020, 00:44

You are getting an AI to generate text on different topics.

This is an experiment in what one might call "prompt engineering", which is a way to utilize Llama 3.1 405b, a neural network trained by Meta.

Llama is a language model. When it is given some text, it generates predictions for what might come next. It is remarkably good at adapting to different contexts, as defined by a prompt (in this case, hidden), which sets the scene for what type of text will be generated.

Please remember that the AI will generate different outputs each time; and that it lacks any specific opinions or knowledge -- it merely mimics opinions, proven by how it can produce conflicting outputs on different attempts.

Feel free to share interesting outputs to /r/philosopherAI on Reddit.

by Murat Ayfer