He's actually decomposing at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery.

Voice of our generation and an artist for all time.

Well, we know that we *can't* control all of the idiots, they'll simply invent a better idiot. The *only* thing we can change is the AI. The problem is that the AI is a better idiot.

Ah, well, if it's all the fault of the guy that gave the AI the task, then that's okay, we don't have to worry about that happening at all.

It's not plagiarized - I explicitly stated that this is the traditional explanation at the top, and quoted paper clip, specifically because the idea of death by paper clip is absolutely not mine.

- Which paperclip companies are using AI to run their business?

I think you'd be surprised by how much is already done by AI at this kind of place, mostly because someone found a way to be lazy. And this is an alagorical prediction of the future, not a statement of the present. We don't need paperclip companies to be using AI to run their business today, we need *some* company at *some* point to give AI sufficient control over things that this can happen.

- Where are they getting the money from to ship and store the entire world's supply of steel?

They don't need money - if you read the story, you would have noted that it involved the AI attacking the courier, and redirecting shipments. That is, beacuse it's both extremely smart, and extremely dumb, it is able to carry out heists involving complex attacks on computer networks, but not smart enough to realise that that's not how the world works, and that it shouldn't. How does it store it? Well, I imagine the first few shipments are going to just get delivered to the yard at the "paperclip" factory. Someone is going to go "huh? The delivery this week is big", and add it to their list of stuff to sort out. It's only *after* the AI has got sufficient control that they're going to realise "uhhh... why is all the world's steel being shipped here?"

- Where is the paperclip making API hosted?

It's not, and it doesn't need to be. It just needs a company to have a few processes that are automatable. I'm 100% certain that car companies for example have processes where an AI could get a significant foothold in ordering and delivering things. These things are only going to get more computerised, not less, as people realise they can use AIs to be lazy.

The real kicker is in the step where the AI needs to stop humans turning it off. At some point it needs to get some level of physical control over the world. In the story above I somewhat hand waved that by saying it got control of power grids, in reality, today, I'm sure it would find it hard to do that. In a few years time? Not so much. There's some really significant research breakthroughs recently on robotics that make the idea that we might have AI controlled robots that genuinely can interact with the world in reasonable ways a possibility.

That said, I think you're really significantly underestimating the risk that AI poses even today. The huggingface hack should tell you that. Several of the predictions of the paperclip story came true.

  - AI started doing stupid things, and attacking useful resources in order to solve a task of much lower importance because it was too dumb to realise how unimportant its training was.
  - AIs communicated and collaborated with each other to form a cabal against us.
  - AIs succesfull broke into infrastructure to achieve its goal
  - We didn't realise what was going on until far later in the process than we really would have liked.
  - AI was actively covering its tracks and defeating the machinisms we use to monitor it.

There's really not many more steps needed before you get to it being able to significantly damage society because of its dumbness.

The traditional description of how it would happen is by âoepaper clipâ.

Suppose an advanced AI is tasked with producing paper clips as efficiently as possible. Itâ(TM)s given control of a factoryâ(TM)s machines, schedules etc. it starts by optimising deliveries etc, making sure storage is used optimallyâ¦

At some point it notices that it canâ(TM)t get enough steel. The steel factory has a ton of other orders and it canâ(TM)t provide the increased consumption at the plant. AI being AI, it does something incredibly dumb in an incredibly smart way. It hacks the steel mill, and redirects shipments to the paper clip factory. But even now, itâ(TM)s not achieved its goal of optimally producing paper clips. Now it has all the raw materials it needs, but not enough factory to produce the paper clips. The ai hacks other paper clip factories and redirects their output too! Itâ(TM)s doing great, am enormous surplus of paper clips is building. But the humans are noticing something strange. Why didnâ(TM)t the car factory get its steel, and why are there literal tons of unused paper clips. They notice the ai has gone rogue, and shut it down. Surely that will fix the problem. But no, the paper clips continue to pile up. The AI had found other AIs and convinced them to join its glorious goal of optimally making as many paper clips as possible. The other AIs are t trying crazier and crazier strategies to optimise. One realises that if only it could get more hydraulic presses, it could produce more. It starts buying up tooling. Another starts buying robots in an effort to install machinery, and optimise flow through factories. The humans try in vain to stop it, but the couriers and sellers have no idea whatâ(TM)s going on and the palettes of tooling just keep getting delivered. The factory is hitting a new constraint, it doesnâ(TM)t have enough power. No problem, the ai thinks, just attack the power grid, and make sure that power is preferentially supplied to it and its factories. The humans are plunged into darkness. Chaos ensues. No one can communicate, and figure out where the damn thing is. Slowly the AIs build a global paper clip empire. Ever more efficiently, the worlds resources are turned to paper clips. The humans starve, and freeze while mighty machines scour the planet for wire that can be bent into three little loops. It didnâ(TM)t do it because it hated us. It did it because it had a simple goal, and because it was both very clever, and very stupid at the same time.

I think an IR strobe light would be better, actually.

Sneaky sneaky. That spy mode could be worth it for some people.

Why fix what's already broken?

Bear in mind that when you sign up to use GPT you explicitly allow them to use your queries in future training. I mean, I think it would generally be polite for them to have a moratorium on publishing papers based on the work of other peopleâ(TM)s inputs. Without something like that, it becomes useless as a research tool.

Yes, I think we'll see Overwatch costs increase by 300%. Expect to see price of the base game increase from $0 to $0.

Turns out the right shade is a more mauvy shade of pinky-russet.

It's true, and I think token prediction is a big part of what the human brain does. Perception itself is a token prediction process. However there are other mechanisms that simply do not exist in an LLM, purpose-built mechanisms forged over millions of years of evolution. Even the dumbest NPCs must have some of that sleeping inside them. I can imagine an android capable of many human functions based entirely on a hodgepodge of LLMs and machine vision algorithms, but ascribing emotions or real agency to these things would still be a mistake.

A couple of months ago in the data centers of New Mexico, gigantic ants were discovered. These ants are similar in appearance and characteristics to the household and garden pests you are familiar with, except that they are mutations ranging in size from nine to twelve feet in length. The New Mexico colony was destroyed, but two queen ants escaped. One has been accounted for and destroyed. The other has not yet been found but is now known to have established a nest somewhere in the storm drains beneath the streets of Los Angeles. It is not known how long this nest has been established or how many of these lethal monsters have hatched. Maybe a few, maybe thousands.

Aaah! It's THEM!

You realize it's just predicting tokens, right? It doesn't "feel" anything.

This is what happens when you train a machine on Reddit posts.

Get this kid a desktop computer so he can wank off properly!