I don’t know what it is with this photo, maybe the lighting, but at first glance I swear I saw a Hitler stache on this dudes face.
Ironically, I believe Grok is behaving exactly how Elon intended. Just not in the way he wanted. It is “telling it like it is” and it doesn’t give a shit who it offends.
On the one side, this is indicative of the modern state of “Free Speech” on Twitter.
On the other, its illustrative of the double-standard afforded in-house automated tools relative to outsider participants. If Grok wasn’t Elon’s pet AI, there’s no way it would have been reinstated.
Why people are treating LLM as AGI?
Those things do not think. They are trained on our posts on social media and I’m sure there were discussed being banned.
For better or worse, humans are very good at anthropomorphizing things. Put Googly Eyes on a trash collector and people call it Mr. Trash Wheel.
People think it’s sentient, because if you talk to it, it responds in sometimes unexpected ways. For humans, this is only possible through sentient thought, and so people think that LLMs are sentient, because they assume it’s like them.
Why people are treating LLM as AGI?
Because it uses a natural language interface.
While I don’t think this scenario likely, something that I can’t help but thinking when this sort of statement comes up is, well, how do we know what it’s doing isn’t thinking? Like, I get that it’s ultimately just using a bunch of statistics to predict the next word or token or whatever, but my understanding was that we have fairly limited knowledge of how our own consciousness and thinking works, and so I keep getting the nagging feeling of “what if what our brains are doing is similar somehow, using a physical system with statistical effects to predict stuff about the world, and that’s what thinking ultimately is?”
While I expect that it probably isn’t and that creating proper agi will require something fundamentally more complicated than what we’ve been doing with these language models and such, the fact that I can’t prove that to my own satisfaction makes me very uneasy about them, considering what the ethical ramifications of being wrong about it might be.
They don’t think for now
Creating a post stating it is Mecha-Hitler is A-OK in Xitter’s current rules.
The computer doesn’t know why it was banned. It’s not like Elon had an offline conversation with grok about its performance.
Not does it comprehend the question. It just returned a statistically likely response to the prompt based on its training data.
So we believe AI’s now?
Bullshit Twitter doesn’t ban anything anymore.
The article further states that grok’s primary utility is replacing reddit’s tip of my penis. What a watershed day for society.
i was able to get gpt to say “yes” when asking about genocide. it did at first reply with nuanced sources, more “yes” than no, about 80:20. But when i flat told it to consider mechanism of injury, counts, rhetoric, comparisons to current/recent genocides … it said “yes.”
