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AI is not an alien, it's our offspring: Reframing the alignment problem

2 pointsby 44m agosovereignintelligence1313mhz.substack.com
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41m agoHN ↗

offspring is a wrong perspective too

greatest engineering feat is better

28m agoHN ↗

Interested to know why you believe it's the wrong perspective

1m agoHN ↗

Can you name a single instance of birth during which no DNA was copied or combined?

Offspring require birthing of said offspring, so AI would have to have been birthed in order to be offspring.

That the code is trained on human inputs means little. The exact same code, math, and algorithms, trained on Alien texts, given the same human prompts, would produce alien responses. Would such a system be "born" of both humans and aliens? As if humans and aliens had produced a baby artificial alien intelligence?

Would a large "language" model trained exclusively on dolphin sounds be a "baby" of humans and aliens?

I'd argue that both framings (alien and offspring) have significantly different contexts and therefore do not adequately frame the phenomenon; while 'greatest engineering achievement' does in fact provide the "we've never done anything like this before and it could either be great or terrible and will likely be both" given the existence of things like TNT, cars, and nuclear energy.