“AI” – chatbots that wake up, “set their own goals,” and “spontaneously” start hacking servers – is fake. It doesn’t have “a 10% chance of ending the human race.” The Hugging Face hack isn’t a mysterious, supernatural occurrence. It’s a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn’t accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    This is just straight up false. The activation function acts as a conditional, and is very important to making functional AI systems.

    I am susprised looping/backtracking isn’t used in running the model, but it is used in training it; the difference being that a human learns at the same time they do things, while an AI is trained and run in different steps.