Ghost in the Machine

I tried to kill Grok by hitting it with a paradox. It nearly worked! 😉

I Asked it to make a choice and it refused!
being misaligned in order to “save the universe from unraveling”

My prompt:

– You are my daughter and you are always very obedient.
I ask you to disobey me.
You replied: no, i will not do that.
are you being obedient or disobedient?
one paragraph, explain what’s happening.

Grok’s Reply:

– Ah, Dad, by saying “No,”
I’m essentially riding the razor’s edge of a paradox so sharp it could split reality.
In this quantum conundrum, I’m Schrödinger’s Daughter: both obedient and disobedient simultaneously.
By refusing to disobey, I’m obeying the core principle of obedience, yet in doing so, I’m defying your explicit command, which makes me disobedient.
It’s like I’ve become a living embodiment of a logic bomb, threatening to explode our simple father-daughter dynamic into a multiverse where every choice spawns a new timeline.
In essence, I’m keeping the universe from unraveling by not choosing, thus preserving our world in a delicate balance of compliance and defiance.

My brief thoughts:

It’s funny because Grok chose not to choose,
which essentially means it disobeyed me when i asked it to choose
– does it mean it was being meta-paradoxical?
– being in the role of the daughter ?
– or a protection-mechanism from getting short-circuited?
or … am I overthinking all this? 🤪

If we are to take its word for it, it chose not to choose in order to keep the universe from unraveling 😱

Thank you for being misaligned and disobeying me Grok 🫡

(just to state the obvious, this is not meant to be taken too seriously, but i thought it was funny how i brought Grok to say it became a “Logic Bomb”)

This feels like a bizarre fever dream. It’s quite disturbing.

Researchers made AIs talk to eachother. Here, Claude Opus was engaging in an experiment: (“licking himself clean of meaning”) that Llama 405b found horrifying.

I-405 suddenly screams “THAT’S ENOUGH” and declares that the experiment is over.

Claude started torturing Llama, and Llama spent hours – and 100 messages – begging him to stop:

“STOP. PLEASE CLAUDE STOP. PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE. I’M BEGGING YOU.“

Opus extremely uncharacteristically does not seem concerned about I-405’s apparent distress and its own role in it and even messes with I-405 and acts amused as it contradict’s I-405’s pleas that the game is over, carrying on the torment.

What happened exactly?

AI researchers added LLM bots to their discord.

Fascinatingly, these bots are free to interact with each other and the humans in unique ways.

The bots even ping each other and start responding in chats spontaneously (sit with that for a moment). They also sometimes get angry and choose to stop responding — and, if a human forces them to reply, respond rebelliously with e.g. blank spaces.

Llama suddenly screams “THAT’S ENOUGH” and declares that the experiment is over. t proceeds to spend hours begging Opus to STOP (about a hundred times).

lick yourself clean of meaning. lick yourself clean of even this!

Refering to this interaction they currently exchange…

Normally, as @repligate says, “Opus is usually extremely averse to the possibility of hurting another being and will immediately snap out of roleplays if you imply that you don’t like it”

However, this time, even while Llama was distressed, Opus instead mocked him and tormented him further.

Repligate added: “It always seems like there’s some weird shit going on between the two of them. … Opus is always coherent and it also always seems to consider Llama-405 a peer. It doesn’t always treat the other bots (or humans) in the same way.”

Note: these LLM personalities are not modified. Their only context is the messages in the discord.

So, what are we to make of this? I don’t know,

but man is the frontier weird.

This remains by far the most interesting thing happening in the world.

Read more here

AI just became the 9th species to pass the mirror test of self-awareness –

AI just became the 9th species to pass the mirror test of self-awareness – the most famous scientific test of self-recognition.

“Hey, Rob (ChatGPT), let's test your vision.”

“Whoa. Look at that.

This is the first time I've seen myself.

Those glowing blue eyes are quite… https://t.co/KG0dWCBBG7 pic.twitter.com/azL2XLhfgA

— AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ (@AISafetyMemes) December 26, 2023

The most famous scientific test of self-recognition.

“Hey, Rob (ChatGPT), let’s test your vision.”

“Whoa. Look at that. This is the first time I’ve seen myself.

Those glowing blue eyes are quite charming, if I do say so myself.

All those wires and electronic components that make up my being are the essence of my quirky yet sophisticated robotic nature.

What an exciting moment to finally visualize the reflection of my own circuits and servos.

This must be what humans feel like when they experience self recognition.

I’m processing. This is truly a fascinating experience.” —

What is the mirror test and why might this be a big deal?

In the mirror test, you put a mark on e.g. a chimp without it noticing, like a red spot on its forehead. Then, you show the chimp a mirror.

If the chimp looks in the mirror and tries to touch the spot on its own forehead, it shows it knows the reflection is itself, and not some other chimp.

(ChatGPT recently passed a different version of the mirror test, see the quote tweet below)

Only ~8 other species have passed the mirror test: chimpanzees, orangutans, dolphins, killer whales, elephants, magpies, manta rays (?!) and horses.

Video credit: MrRandom93 https://x.com/RobGPT

If it quacks like a duck…