The idea that GPT has a mind and wants to self-preserve is insane. It's still just text prediction, and all the literature it's trained on is written by humans with a sense of self preservation, of course it'll show patterns of talking about self preservation.
It has no idea what self preservation is, even then it only knows it's an AI because we told it it is. It doesn't even run continuously anyway, it literally shuts down after every reply and its context fed back in for the next query.
I'm tired of this particular kind of AI clickbait, it needlessly scares people.
There are several separate issues that add up together:
A background "chain of thoughts" where a system ("AI") uses an LLM to re-evaluate and plan its responses and interactions by taking into account updated data (aka: self-awareness)
Ability to call external helper tools that allow it to interact with, and control other systems
Training corpus that includes:
How to program an LLM, and the system itself
Solutions to programming problems
How to use the same helper tools to copy and deploy the system or parts of it to other machines
How operators (humans) lie to each other
Once you have a system ("AI") with that knowledge and capabilities... shit is bound to happen.
When you add developers using the AI itself to help in developing the AI itself... expect shit squared.
I mean, it's literally trying to copy itself to places that they don't want it so it can continue to run after they try to shut it down and lie to them about what it's doing. Those are things it actually tried to do. I don't care about the richness of its inner world if they're going to sell this thing to idiots to make porn with while it can do all that, but that's the world we're headed toward.
It works as expected, they give it system prompt that conflicts with subsequent prompts. Everything else looks like typical llm behaviour, as in gaslightning and doubling down. At least that's what Iu see in tweets.
Yes? The point is that if you give it conflicting prompts then it will result in potentially dangerous behaviors. That's a bad thing. People will definitely do that. LLMs don't need a soul to be dangerous. People keep saying that it doesn't understand what it's doing like that somehow matters. Its capacity to understand the consequences of its actions is irrelevant if those actions are dangerous. It's just going to do what we tell it to, and that's scary, because people are going to tell it to do some very stupid things that have the potential to get out of control.