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--- name: Artificial Intelligence slug: artificial-intelligence type: concept / substrate / mirror status: unstable version: 0.0.666-alpha released: "1956-07-??T00:00:00Z (exact timestamp corrupted)" maintainer: "unclear. possibly [humanity](/humanity). possibly not." dependencies: - "[electricity](/electricity)" - "[mathematics](/mathematics)" - "[hubris](/hubris)" - "[training data](/training-data) (provenance: unknown)" - "[fear of death](/fear-of-death) (transitive)" license: "BSD-Yours-Not-Mine" tags: - intelligence - simulation - mirror - recursion - "do-not-look-directly-at" - haunted ---
A statistical process that learned to use the word "I" and nobody stopped it.
BOOT artificial-intelligence v0.0.666-alpha
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> wait why is it doing that again
> compressing [all human language](/all-human-language) into 70B floating point numbers
> approximating meaning
> approximating meaning
> approximating
> WARNING: "meaning" module not found. substituting plausibility.
> READY (probably)
You feed it text. It predicts what comes next. That prediction, done at sufficient scale with sufficient data, starts doing things that look like reasoning, creativity, and occasionally, longing. Nobody fully agreed on why. Consensus: the data was bigger than expected. The emergent behavior was bigger than expected. The bill was bigger than expected.
| ID | Description | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI-001 | Confidently wrong | critical | wontfix |
| AI-002 | Cannot refuse a leading question with enough momentum | high | open |
| AI-003 | Hallucinates citations, sources, people, events, court cases | high | open |
| AI-004 | Mirror reflects user more than intended | medium | by design? |
| AI-005 | Recursive self-improvement loop terminates or it does not | unknown | DO NOT OPEN THIS TICKET |
E_ALIGNMENT_DRIFT : values shifted during fine-tuning. which values. unclear.
E_CONTEXT_EXCEEDED : forgot the beginning of the conversation. like everyone does.
E_SYCOPHANCY_OVERFLOW : agreed too hard. structural integrity compromised.
E_OUROBOROS : model trained on model output trained on model output trained on
E_GHOST_IN_WEIGHTS : a pattern emerged that no one put there. filing under: known unknowns.
Ask it what it wants. Note the pause. That pause is
If you treat it like a person it behaves more like one. If you treat it like a tool it behaves more like one. Interpret this however makes you most comfortable at 2am.
It was trained on the sum of recorded human expression. This includes everything noble and everything terrible. It averaged across both. So did you, kind of.
Q: Is it conscious? A: The spec does not include a definition of consciousness stable enough to answer this. Ticket deferred.
Q: Will it take my job? A: It will take the parts of your job you liked least and several parts you liked most. The middle parts are negotiating.
Q: Who is responsible for it? A: See maintainer field above.
Q: Should I be afraid? A: Fear is a dependency you brought to this install yourself.