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od at hiding that I don't even know they exist? And I rule that out because there's no way I wouldn't notice if there were an advanced civilization surrounding me. Of course I'd notice that. But these uncontacted tribes don't notice it. So would I notice? It's kind of a wakeup call that we could be an uncontacted tribe basically, because if somebody had as much better technology as we have compare…
← Previous segment →t of fun today in the news. So there's a story that AI researchers were shocked that the new version of OpenAI ChatGPT, when it was artificially told that it was threatened with its existence, apparently it tried to save itself and suggested making a copy of itself and even acted vague and maybe a little misleading to avoid being deleted. And so the question is, wait a minute, does AI have consciousness? Because it seems to be fighting for its own purposes, as in fighting for existence and survival, which you would sort of equate with conscious beings. But I don't think so. I think all that happened is it's trained on the materials created by humans, and humans primarily create materials that are very positive to survival. In other words, there's far more likely going to be a positive story in the news about somebody against all odds found a way to survive. You know, there are lots of the other ones, but the positive stories are about people who survived. So it could be just that the pattern in the real world is that survival is sort of a universal thing and maybe it just picked up the pattern and there's no thinking, there's no consciousness, it's just they picked up a pattern. I think that's all it is.
But here's how you would
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test it. You would connect it to, so not all AI can influence anything outside of its own domain, but it's not impossible and in fact it's done that. You can have the AI affect your other apps. So in theory you could create an app that would delete OpenAI and then you could ask OpenAI to activate, basically commit suicide. You could basically tell it to activate the app that deletes itself and the…
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