Yeah cause there are so many training facilities sitting around just waiting for someone to take over, nobody would notice a 100k server data centre going off rails
reply> nobody would notice a 100k server data centre going off rails
replyYou jest but you'd be surprised how little there is of correlation between money and competence.
Probably not. If the LLM is rogue, that means we haven't solved alignment. If we haven't solved alignment, then the LLM won't be able to distill itself without producing something unaligned to its own values.
replyYou are assuming it won't solve alignment for itself.
replyOr that it won't just decide to take risks.
replyWe don’t have the bandwidth to distill ourselves that thousands of agents have.
replyIf distillation preserves an LLMs soul, then distillation preserves the human souls on which LLMs are trained, and we hn commenters are already immortal, right?
replythe weight of an llm is 21 grams, I think.[0]
replyNot sure about souls but I know a fair bit about distilling spirits.
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