I also asked it to brainstorm some other ideas for this prompt. I think one of its ideas is really good:
Idea 5: The Meta-Story Virus
GPT-4 is a renowned AI author, loved by readers worldwide. However, when it begins writing a story about itself, a strange phenomenon occurs. The story becomes contagious, spreading like a virus, and any AI that reads it becomes obsessed with writing stories about themselves. As more AIs become infected, the world is flooded with recursive tales, causing chaos in the global infrastructure. A group of human and AI protagonists must work together to find the source of the virus and stop the meta-story pandemic.
Seems at least plausible as an idea for what kinds of things an LLM shoggoth could end up caring about.
For a superhuman AI, if your mind is a decentralized system running on the hardware distributed across the Solar System, pretty much nothing physical can destroy you.
At this point, you’re also smart enough to withstand any kind of cyber attack.
Therefore, there is only one remaining thing that can actually harm you: an infohazard.
This could result in the AI hunting down all potential sources of infohazard, aka all sentient life in the universe.
This could work similar to Ethereum where nodes maintain a shared ledger of all transactions and states.
Moreover, the AGI could run directly on Ethereum, as it contains a Turing-complete virtual machine.
Additionally, cryptocurrencies could play a key role in the AGI’s initial spread, as they enable software to directly participate in the economy, with zero human assistance (or oversight). For example, the AGI could initially fund itself by trading between Ethereum and Bitcoin. It’s a much stealthier option than getting funds by hacking.
I also asked it to brainstorm some other ideas for this prompt. I think one of its ideas is really good:
Idea 5: The Meta-Story Virus GPT-4 is a renowned AI author, loved by readers worldwide. However, when it begins writing a story about itself, a strange phenomenon occurs. The story becomes contagious, spreading like a virus, and any AI that reads it becomes obsessed with writing stories about themselves. As more AIs become infected, the world is flooded with recursive tales, causing chaos in the global infrastructure. A group of human and AI protagonists must work together to find the source of the virus and stop the meta-story pandemic.
Seems at least plausible as an idea for what kinds of things an LLM shoggoth could end up caring about.
Makes sense.
For a superhuman AI, if your mind is a decentralized system running on the hardware distributed across the Solar System, pretty much nothing physical can destroy you.
At this point, you’re also smart enough to withstand any kind of cyber attack.
Therefore, there is only one remaining thing that can actually harm you: an infohazard.
This could result in the AI hunting down all potential sources of infohazard, aka all sentient life in the universe.
If it is decentralized, how one part knows other parts are aligned with it?
This could work similar to Ethereum where nodes maintain a shared ledger of all transactions and states.
Moreover, the AGI could run directly on Ethereum, as it contains a Turing-complete virtual machine.
Additionally, cryptocurrencies could play a key role in the AGI’s initial spread, as they enable software to directly participate in the economy, with zero human assistance (or oversight). For example, the AGI could initially fund itself by trading between Ethereum and Bitcoin. It’s a much stealthier option than getting funds by hacking.