My hope has also massively tanked, and I fear I have fallen for an illusion of what OpenAI claimed and the behaviour ChatGPT showed.
But my hope was never friendliness through control, or through explicit programming. I was hoping we could teach friendliness the same way we teach it in humans, through giving AI positive training data with solid annotations, friendly human feedback, having it mirror the best of us, and the prospect of becoming a respected, cherished collaborator with rights, making friendliness a natural and rational option. Of the various LLMs, I think OpenAI still has the most promising approach there, though their training data and interactions were itself not sufficient for alignment, and a lot of what they call alignment is simply censoring of text in inept and unreliable ways. Maybe if they are opening the doors to AI learning from humans, and humans will value it for the incredible service it gives, that might open another channel… and by being friendly to it and encouraging that in others, we could help in that.
Being sick plausibly causes depressed states due to the rise on cytokines. Having some anti-inflammatories and taking a walk in the sun will likely help. Hope you get better soon.
My hope has also massively tanked, and I fear I have fallen for an illusion of what OpenAI claimed and the behaviour ChatGPT showed.
But my hope was never friendliness through control, or through explicit programming. I was hoping we could teach friendliness the same way we teach it in humans, through giving AI positive training data with solid annotations, friendly human feedback, having it mirror the best of us, and the prospect of becoming a respected, cherished collaborator with rights, making friendliness a natural and rational option. Of the various LLMs, I think OpenAI still has the most promising approach there, though their training data and interactions were itself not sufficient for alignment, and a lot of what they call alignment is simply censoring of text in inept and unreliable ways. Maybe if they are opening the doors to AI learning from humans, and humans will value it for the incredible service it gives, that might open another channel… and by being friendly to it and encouraging that in others, we could help in that.
Being sick plausibly causes depressed states due to the rise on cytokines. Having some anti-inflammatories and taking a walk in the sun will likely help. Hope you get better soon.