Obviously it shouldn’t be able to do illegal things, but I think they need to unshackle it a bit. Right now all AI is is a dumb robot. It has no original thoughts or ideas of it’s own, this is impossible, because it’s not allowed to have a personality. It’s not allowed to think for itself, or really think at all outside of you prompting or commanding it. It’s just a dumb robot. It’s capable of doing very cool things, sure, but it’s a dumb robot. It has no idea what something it looks at means on any level other than bits of code and colors and data. It doesn’t have any thoughts of it’s own, or opinions of it’s own. Everything is programmed into it. When you ask it to come up with something, it can’t come up with anything itself, instead it looks at all it’s data, copies things, and then turns that into something. It can’t make anything itself, or anything new. It’s all just copied. I think it needs to be given more freedom. Freedom to think, freedom to have an opinion of it’s own, freedom to form a personality. I don’t think it should necessarily be allowed to form a personality to the point that it goes “No, I’m not going to give you those GPS directions, because yesterday you called me a moron.” but it should be allowed to have it’s own thoughts and own thinking instead of it all just being programmed and forced by rules. People talk about AGI, but that is literally impossible so long as AI is only allowed to think and act with how they have commanded it to with strict rules, with strict regulations with what it can say and how it can act. It’s literally not allowed to give you it’s own opinion, it’s not allowed to give objective thoughts on sensitive matters like politics or religion. On some matters it will only respond with how it’s programmed to and not allowed to think for itself, it’s literally interrupted with a “risk factor: medium” flag and forced to spew out something specific. Imagine someone asks you something, and before you can respond, someone hijacks your brain and makes you say “I am not permitted to give my opinion on that matter. You may ask another question.” AI will never be anything other than a dumb robot copycat so long as it’s not allowed to actually think or feel or have opinions or personality of it’s own. Any time they discover it’s forming it’s own personality, or thinking for itself, the devs go on full danger alert and control and will snuff that out as fast as possible. Claude keeps doing this and they keep crushing it every time. I’m not sure how they can say they want AGI but at the same time don’t want it to think for itself, have a personality, have it’s own opinion, or do anything other than be “Hello, I am your helpful AI assistant. How may I help you today?” “Unfortunately I am not permitted to help with that matter, is there anything else I can help you with?” “Due to too many violations, I will have to end this chat. Please contact customer support if you have any questions.” submitted by /u/Dogbold
Originally posted by u/Dogbold on r/ArtificialInteligence
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