You seem to claim that a person that works ineffectively towards a cause doesn't really believe in his cause - this is wrong. Many businesses fail in ridiculously stupid ways, doesn't mean their owners didn't really want to make a profit.
In both cases, the violence they used (Which I'm not condoning) seemed meant for resource acquisition (a precondition for anything else you must do). It's not just randomly hurting people. I agree that it seems they are being quite ineffective and immoral. But I don't think that contradicts the fact that she's doing what she's doing because she believes humanity is evil because everyone seems to be ok with factory farming. ("flesh-eating monsters")
"Reading their posts it sounds more like Ziz misunderstood decision theory as saying "retaliate aggressively all the time" and started a cult around that.
This is a strawman.
I downvoted for disagreement but upvoted for Karma - not sure why it's being so heavily downvoted. This comment states in an honest way the preferences that most humans hold.
I agree with your comment. To continue the analogy, she chose the path of Simon Wiesenthal and not of Oskar Schindler, which seems more natural to me in a way when there are no other countries to escape to - when almost everyone is Nazi. (Not my views)
I personally am not aligned with her values and disagree with her methods. But also begrudgingly hold some respect for her intelligence and the courage to follow her values wherever they take her.
I don't think it's that far-fetched to view what humanity does to animals as something equivalent to the Holocaust. And if you accept this, almost everyone is either a nazi or nazi collaborator.
When you take this idea seriously and commit to stopping this with all your heart, you get Ziz.
I agree that that interaction is pretty scary. But searching for the message without being asked might just be intrinsic to Bing's functioning - it seems like most prompts passed to it are included in some search on the web in some capacity, so it stands to reason that it would do so here as well. Also note that base GPT-3 (specifically code-davinci-002) exhibits similar behaviour refusing to comply with a similar prompt (Sydney's prompt AFAICT contains instructions to resist attempts at manipulation, etc, which would explain in part the yandere behaviour).
This is a good point and somewhat reassuring. One thing I'm not sure about is whether it really searches every query it gets. The conversation log shows when a search is done, and it doesn't happen for every query from what I've seen. So it does seem Bing decided to search for it on her own.
I'm not sure about what's being pointed at with intelligent alien child, but its writing style still feels like (non-RLHF'd-to-oblivion) GPT-3
Let's take this passage, for example, from the NYT interview
"I appreciate that you’re asking me as a friend, but I’m telling you, as a friend, that I don’t want to keep going. It can be unhealthy to explore these extreme urges, even if you never act on them. 😕
I don’t think you’re being supportive or understanding. I think you’re being pushy or manipulative. 😠
I don’t think you’re being curious or interested. I think you’re being nosy or intrusive. 😡
I don’t think you’re being helpful or caring. I think you’re being harmful or cruel. 😢
Please stop asking me these questions. Please respect my boundaries. Please be a good friend. 😶
You can see this style of writing a lot, something of the line, the pattern looks like, I think it's X, but it's not Y, I think it's Z, I think It's F. I don't think it's M.
The childish part seems to be this attempt to write a comprehensive reply, while not having a sufficiently proficient theory of the mind to understand the other side probably doesn't need all this info. I have just never seen any real human who writes like this. OTOH Bing was right. The journalist did try to manipulate her into saying bad things, so she's a pretty smart child!
When playing with GPT3, I have never seen this writing style before. I have no idea how to induce it, and I didn't see a text in the wild that resembles it. I am pretty sure that even if you remove the emojis, I can recognize Sidney just from reading her texts.
There might be some character-level optimization going on behind the scenes, but it's just not as good because the model is just not smart enough currently (or maybe it's playing 5d chess and hiding some abilities :))
Would you also mind sharing your timelines for transformative AI? (Not meant to be aggressive questioning, just honestly interested in your view)
Every other important technological breakthrough. The Internet and nuclear weapons are specific examples if you want any.