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If it's a super intelligence, why would it follow our instructions?
Our current dumb LLM's are already being weasily little fuckers.
Depending on how it works, it may not be able to actually do anything, unless it starts out by wanting something. And it's up to its creators to decide what it will initially want. Intelligence doesn't necessarily make it any more likely to change what it wants -- intelligence only makes it better at getting what it already wants.
Unfortunately, it seems that current LLMs are largely a black box, it's already lying to us and hiding things. A super intelligent LLM would quite likely run rings around our attempt to monitor it.
I also think the indication is that a super-intelligent LLM would “want” something. I don't know you have consciousness without it.
You keep reading "LLM" when I say "AI".
I really don't think LLMs will ever be superintelligent or true AI. They're merely text prediction engines. Maybe an LLM will be part of a true AI -- like the speech center of the AI's brain. But the speech center alone can never be superintelligent ... or even truly intelligent at all.
I'm saying whatever a true AI is going to be orders of magnitude more complex than LLM's. The idea that it'll be a machine we can fully control is a layer of fantasy on an already fantastical concept.