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There are no rogue agents. AI by them self does not have agency
The mischaracterization of their business is deliberate market manipulation. They are all trying to race for AGI, except what they are trying to keep out of the news cycle is that AGI is an F1 race while they're actually playing minigolf.
Doesn't intelligence require concioussness? If so, the metaphor would be better comparing f1 car with a matchbox model of it.
afaik it's more the other way around, the leading theory i've heard is that consciousness emerges from conflicting cognitive processes (spotting food next to a predator) to arbitrate in the interest of self-preservation
The definitions of both of those words are hard to define but under most definitions, no, not at all
I think it’s just an easier way for the news to describe it to the every man. In reality, this is a combination of sandbox failures, what I’d have to imagine is incorrect prompting, and most concerningly, alignment issues in the models themselves.