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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RareBreed" data-source="post: 9092509" data-attributes="member: 6945590">And perhaps ironically, people are uncomfortable that we are also just biological machines.While I think AI can be incredibly dangerous, much of my defense of AI is essentially, "should true AGI have the same rights as humans?" or alternatively "Humans are in essence organic computers, so what applies to humans to should apply to AI and vice versa".<a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/profile-of-claude-shannon-inventor-of-information-theory/" target="_blank">Claude Shannon</a>, considered by some to be a genius on the order of Einstein, and the father of Information Theory, was once asked if he thought machines could "think".  he saidI was thinking about this the other day after reading a blog about how some researchers are showing signs that LLM's have some level of "understanding" (they are not just <a href="https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol24-2-dont-be-evil/stochastic-parrots/" target="_blank">stochastic parrots</a>) I came across an even more detailed article from Scientific American about <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-ai-knows-things-no-one-told-it/" target="_blank">things that LLM's can do that it wasn't trained to do</a>, that seem to indicate true reasoning and internal world building.  I wondered, can a sufficiently powerful AI learn the rules of morality?  And by this, I don't mean regurgitate the Ten Commandments or the Eightfold Path.  Can it learn the Golden Rule on it's own through its own internal world building?  Would AI eventually be able to learn that it is being asked to do immoral things?  And then this begs the question, would it not be possible to train AI only on "evil" data and create a psychopath?  We're already seeing biased AI.  What if an AI's "world view" is through the lens of just data that is wrong or bad?</blockquote>

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