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Ok, those are some good points about what can go wrong. I still doubt that things are particularly more prone to going wrong in more intelligent systems. Wasn't it early, simplistic systems like Tay that went the furthest off the rails? The problem is that more intelligent AI will be used more ambitiously, so when it does go wrong, the consequences might be more serious than some racist twitter posts.

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Right. Hedge fund going global threat? That wasn't purely a machine. But none of this needs to be purely a machine. And it sure got far before people reined it back in.

And I don't know that "more intelligent" is necessary. I can see plenty of mirth coming from an amateur or hacker / techies group or less responsible country (hah!) using whatever commercial offer to bake their own agent. What's harder? The core. Hooking up the core to a wallet, internet access, a robo-signing staff - and working around the fine print of the core vendor - that might be much easier than what OpenAI and friends are trying to do. Do they also create their own reward function and alignment in there? Yes. That's part of the fun. That's the point. Do they get it right? Maybe, maybe not.

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