OpenAI’s offices were sent thousands of paper clips in an elaborate prank to warn about an AI apocalypse::The prank was a reference to the “paper clip maximizer” scenario – the idea that AI could destroy humanity if it were told to build as many paper clips as possible.
OpenAI sent $25 worth of paperclips.
Human Resources: “But you still took one home without asking, which is theft. Go clean out your desk.”
Everyone works (at least partially) from home now. If you havn’t taken a box of office supplies home yet you are probably braindead.
I’m more worried about what capital will do with the tech than tje tech itself.
Whelp, time to waste another 4 hours on Universal Paperclips
What’s that? Cookie clicker with paper clips?
Yeah, but as you progress it becomes a bit of a thought experiment about AI.
Ooh. Worth paying $2 for on the App Store?
I just play it on a desktop browser, hard to say what $2 is worth to you.
Uhhhh… $2 doesn’t really dent my budget even as tight as it is. But I don’t like to spend money on apps because I’m too old and crotchety about apps not being free with an option to buy ad-free after you’ve played.
I bought it in 2017 and have played it ~6 times since at 4-6 hours per play. Worth $2 imo.
One of my favorite games. I play through about once a year and this year they added new features. When you beat it, you can go to other universes with different starting conditions to play through and see how that changes things. I don’t think that will make me play more but it will keep a record of my plays.
Edit: I play on the android app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.everybodyhouse.paperclipsuniquetest
“elaborate”? Nah.
Thousands of paper clips is like one box lol.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
One of OpenAI’s biggest rivals played an elaborate prank on the AI startup by sending thousands of paper clips to its offices.
The paper clips in the shape of OpenAI’s distinctive spiral logo were sent to the AI startup’s San Francisco offices last year by an employee at rival Anthropic, in a subtle jibe suggesting that the company’s approach to AI safety could lead to the extinction of humanity, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
Since then, OpenAI has rapidly accelerated its commercial offerings, launching ChatGPT last year to record-breaking success and striking a multibillion-dollar investment deal with Microsoft in January.
AI safety concerns have come back to haunt the company in recent weeks, however, with the chaotic firing and subsequent reinstatement of CEO Sam Altman.
According to The Atlantic, Sutskever commissioned and set fire to a wooden effigy representing “unaligned” AI at a recent company retreat, and he reportedly also led OpenAI’s employees in a chant of “feel the AGI” at the company’s holiday party, after saying: “Our goal is to make a mankind-loving AGI.”
OpenAI and Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.
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To touch more deeply on why paperclips allude to the extinction of humanity: the Paperclip Problem is a parable in which an artificial intelligence operating a factory is instructed to make as many paperclips as possible.
It doesn’t stop when it runs out of resources. Instead, it commandeers mining machines to deplete the planet’s metals, and after those had been used up, it melts every human down for the trace iron in our blood.
The instructions didn’t think the AI needed to be told when to stop, so it just kept going.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/ai-and-paperclip-problem
Presumably the same people who thought that the Large Hadron Collider was going to create a black hole that would destroy the world.
Nah, AI doing weird stuff is actually possible. Armageddon isn’t likely, but it’s more on the table than a black hole ever was.
We have an imminent apocalypse (imminent in civilization terms: next few centuries) even without AI.
Yeah and vaccines make you magnetic. Science bad.
I highly doubt that would ever happen.If this AI is building paperclips to overthrow humanity then someone is going to notice
You would think so, but you have to remember AGI is hyper-intelligent. Because it can constantly learn, build, and improve upon itself at an exponential rate it’s not only a little bit smarter than a human-- it’s smarter than every human combined. AGI would know that if it’s caught trying to maximizing paperclips humans would shut it down at the first sign something is wrong, so it would find unfathomably clever ways to avoid detection.
If you’re interested in the subject the YouTube channel Computerphile has a series of videos with Robert Miles that explain the importance of AI safety in an easy to understand way.
There is a game that is based on the same thinking (Universal Paperclips), you play the rule of “the AI”.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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For a system to be advanced enough to be that dangerous, it would need the complex analogical thought that would prevent this type of misunderstanding. Rather, such dumb super intelligence is unlikely.
however, human society has enabled a paperclip maximizer in the form of profit maximizing corporate environments.
They use simple examples to elucidate the problem. Of course a real smart intelligence isn’t going to get stuck making paper clips. That’s entirely not the point.
the the problem of analogy is applicable to more than one task. your point is moot.
for it to be intelligent enough to be a “super intelligence” it would require systems for weighting vague liminal concept spaces. rather, several systems that would prevent that style of issue.
otherwise it just couldn’t function as well as you fear.
Ooooooh i haven’t seen this face since windows xp
