Post #1986153
2026-04-03 13:04 UTC
Some points lots of people neglect:
- More important than how LLMs predict the next word is how the attention mechanism builds "understanding" of patterns.
- It's not just human language, they work on tokens of different kinds & achieve multi-modal "understanding".
- Losing control of AI doesn't require it to have emotions or sentience, just goals.
- The AI companies are trying to achieve AGI/ASI through "recursive self-improvement", and AI is already being used to help develop AI.
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@peter@toot.cafe 2026-04-03 13:13
To finish this thread on a "positive action", here's Connor's ControlAI campaign, to share with MPs: https://controlai.com
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@markhughes@mastodon.social 2026-04-03 14:22
@peter > Losing control of AI doesn't require it to have emotions or sentience, just goals. This will arise naturally. It's literally natural selection, even without AGI, like a bacterium or dare I say a virus. Ones that survive to propagate in some way (local #LLMs? cough) will multiply and have a chance to further develop whatever characteristics assist and amplify that process. We use things like goals to explore this space, but it comes down to what serves the "prime directive" 🤣