2026-04-03 11:09 UTC
If you can look past the clickbaity title (pretty sure Connor never actually says "mutate"), I think this is another v good discussion with Connor Leahy. He explains...
- How LLMs work and how they apparently achieve general learning from patterns which was a "holy grail" of AI research
- The risk of losing control; why we need to slow the heck down and regulate its development
(I know it's not popular message, but think it's too important to easily dismiss)
https://youtu.be/rf2KFVcKQdQ
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@peter@toot.cafe 2026-04-03 13:04
Some points lots of people neglect: - More important than how LLMs predict the next word is how the attention mechanism builds "understanding" of patterns. - It's not just human language, they work on tokens of different kinds & achieve multi-modal "understanding". - Losing control of AI doesn't require it to have emotions or sentience, just goals. - The AI companies are trying to achieve AGI/ASI through "recursive self-improvement", and AI is already being used to help develop AI.