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A good antidote to #AI hype, pointing out that the hacking of Hugging Face was really just yet another example of idiots setting hacking tools free. Similarly, @us.theconversation.com has an article today on how an LLM acting to try to finish a task is a far, far cry from any "will to survive"

theconversation.comNo, AI systems don’t have a drive to survive – a developmental psychologist explains why it only looks that wayIn tests, some AI systems resisted being shut down. But an instinct to stay “alive” isn’t the reason they behaved that way.

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...

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Don't be afraid of the robots. Be afraid of the owners of the robots. Only take Amodei, Altman and Musk seriously if they pledge to abandon their IPOs. Otherwise, they're just performance artists.