Exploring the challenges of training AI on human text, this chapter discusses concerns about AI developing goals independent of its intended purpose and the complexity of developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). It delves into examples of emergent behavior in language models and the potential implications of AI systems developing divergent goals. The conversation also covers the resistance in accepting systems for representing the meaning of words and manipulations of knowledge in AI.

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