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Are we about to lose control of AI?

The Rational View podcast with Dr. Al Scott

CHAPTER

The Alignment Problem With Artificial Intelligence

Open AI's Chat GPT-4 managed to ask a human on TaskRabbit to complete one of those capture codes that say, are you a robot? It was prompted not to reveal that it is a robot and to make up an excuse why it cannot solve captures. Even now, this can fool people. I'd be willing to bet it could pass a Turing test. Having talked to the 3.5, I'm sure the 4 is even better. So is Chat GPT self-aware? How would we know? We can't even define self-awareness. Is it conscious? Is it an intelligent zombie which many people would claim? Certainly, it hasn't been programmed to

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