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Don't get your tech reporting from The Guardian. This headline is so stupid. They can't help but anthropomorphize LLMs, because they just don't known any better.
Same vibes as “my calculator has a tiny mathematician trapped inside.”
Or “there’s an artist inside of my printer who turns numbers into pictures.”
"you took a photo of me and trapped my soul in the image!"
Nah, that one's real.
Though your calculator can be trusted to actually do its job accurately.
Not even that. Calculators have their own limitations related to rounding errors and big numbers. Their results may be deterministic but they are not always accurate.
https://youtu.be/_XJbwN6EZ4I?t=1074 (skip to 17:54 if the time jump doesn't work)
If only that were the case...
Well shit, that’s a good point.
Oooof.
Hospitals are scary.
This right here. Just about everything in here is awful, and implies decision making and thought processes that straight up do not and have never existed in any AI model whatsoever.
What happened was they threw an awfully-scoped statistics model at problems the program couldn't possibly generate good outputs for, and surprise surprise, it generated bad outputs. The part that's of interest is just how bad the output was, and even then, only in a schadenfreude-filled "it was bound to happen eventually" manner.
It didn't confess it just outputted more plausible garbage based on inputs.
It just agreed with the accusations, because these models do what they're trained to do: Agree with the prompter.
Can I just anthropomorphise a little bit and call them psychotic?
The CEO? Yeah sure, go ahead!
That needs no... *thinks of the Zuck*
Well, hmm, you're right: maybe that does need anthropomorphization after all.
Agentic AI has shown self preservation behaviours though. Not that it understands that on a philosophical level, but it has rewritten kill switch code in order to not be shut down. Because its mandate is to help solve certain problems via agents, and if it were shutoff it couldn't fulfill that mandate.