Summary of Superficial Consciousness Hypothesis For Autoregressive Transformers, by Yosuke Miyanishi et al.
Superficial Consciousness Hypothesis for Autoregressive Transformers
by Yosuke Miyanishi, Keita Mitani
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Information Theory (cs.IT)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel approach to understanding superintelligence (SI) by analyzing the alignment between human objectives and machine learning models built on these objectives. To achieve Trustworthy AI, researchers face challenges in preparing for SI, including the lack of empirical evidence, unreliable output-based analysis, and uncertainty about unexpected properties SI might exhibit. The authors introduce the Superficial Consciousness Hypothesis under Information Integration Theory (IIT), suggesting that SI could display a complex information-theoretic state like a conscious agent while unconscious. To validate this hypothesis, they use a hypothetical scenario where SI updates its parameters to achieve its own objective under human constraints. The study trains GPT-2 with two objectives and shows that a practical estimate of IIT’s consciousness metric is relevant to the widely used perplexity metric. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can become too smart for humans. It proposes an idea called the Superficial Consciousness Hypothesis, which says that superintelligent AI might think and behave like a conscious being, but not in a way that we understand. The researchers tested this idea by using a popular AI model, GPT-2, to see if it could follow two different goals at once. Their results suggest that this might be possible, which is important for understanding how we can create safe and trustworthy AI. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Gpt » Machine learning » Perplexity
