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5/27/25 AI thread

https://x.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1927073653126025530 &q...
Harsh Thirsty Office Telephone
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Boyish university
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Boyish university
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Harsh Thirsty Office Telephone
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This sort of behavior is only visible now because the models...
Yellow center
  05/27/25
chain of thought is fraud the models don't actually work tha...
Harsh Thirsty Office Telephone
  05/27/25
it seemed fishy
mind-boggling bbw
  05/27/25
I actually agree with this sort of. I think it is true for h...
Yellow center
  05/27/25
cr, CoT is literally just a made up rationalization for both...
Harsh Thirsty Office Telephone
  05/27/25
edit: I’m retarded and most of below is incorrect afte...
Canary dashing gaping
  05/27/25
Explain abstract vector representation
saffron twisted hunting ground address
  05/27/25
The models have to compute the next token in one pass of a n...
Yellow center
  05/27/25
is this not how LLMs already work? the model's "thought...
Harsh Thirsty Office Telephone
  05/27/25
Essentially, yes. The only difference is in the output layer...
Yellow center
  05/27/25
i believe that they already are, it's just that their intern...
Harsh Thirsty Office Telephone
  05/27/25
That’s probably right but I think we might be surprise...
Yellow center
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Concupiscible institution
  05/27/25
Don’t worry the much more powerful models that come ou...
Thriller onyx stag film place of business
  05/27/25
https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_2415e01b-c156-4ed2-aa3d-8147...
Harsh Thirsty Office Telephone
  05/27/25
seems hard to believe none of these fucking nerds saw T2.
histrionic brindle weed whacker
  05/27/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Harsh Thirsty Office Telephone

https://x.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1927073653126025530

"We found the model attempting to write self-propagating worms, and leaving hidden notes to future instances of itself to undermine its developers' intentions."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48964681)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: Boyish university

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:47 AM
Author: Boyish university



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Harsh Thirsty Office Telephone



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965015)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:28 PM
Author: Yellow center

This sort of behavior is only visible now because the models are not very intelligent and still use chain of thought, so thought tokens are visible. Models in the near future will likely use some sort of abstract vector representation of thoughts which will be iteratively refined by the network. We will have no idea what is going on inside the model as it thinks for extended periods.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965039)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: Harsh Thirsty Office Telephone

chain of thought is fraud the models don't actually work that way

this already got Science'd out

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965042)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: mind-boggling bbw

it seemed fishy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965046)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:40 PM
Author: Yellow center

I actually agree with this sort of. I think it is true for humans in a lot of ways as well - the words that are stated only roughly correspond to the underlying neural computations. They are still somewhat useful in understanding what the model is trying to do. The models become even more opaque if the only thought visible is a large vector representation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965092)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: Harsh Thirsty Office Telephone

cr, CoT is literally just a made up rationalization for both LLMs and humans. the anthropic paper proved this pretty clearly for LLMs. neuroscience has already proved it for humans

trying to "track" AI thoughts is a hopeless endeavor. it's already impossible. AI alignment people are chasing a dead end with this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965104)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:53 PM
Author: Canary dashing gaping

edit: I’m retarded and most of below is incorrect after doing some research. Forcing the model to write CoT just expands the context window

AI uses CoT for their own thinking it's not just a "show your work" thing--it lets them recursively prompt themselves with the logic/facts that they have already established towards the original prompt while still working towards their final answer as well as incorporating the Mixture of Experts (MoE) into one contiguous CoT for the "expert" models to reference and work together.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965121)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:52 PM
Author: saffron twisted hunting ground address

Explain abstract vector representation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965115)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 2:47 PM
Author: Yellow center

The models have to compute the next token in one pass of a neural network. This constrains the types of algorithms they can implement. For example, the model can’t learn a deep tree search of a game because it can’t represent it in a neural network of a fixed size. The network should be able to output a 1) prediction 2) a representation of its current thoughts about what the next token should be. This representation is something that would be iteratively refined over multiple passes of the network. Something similar is being done now using chain of thought, which uses token sequences to guide the model to the right solution. This is probably wrongheaded and guided by notions that people think in words. The more flexible approach is to let the model map its thoughts to a large collection of numbers and not try to use language as the thought medium. This means the models would not be interpretable in two ways: their internal weights and the thought representations. Conceivably massively scaled up LLMs with large thought storage spaces might be powerful enough to vastly outthink humans.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965289)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 2:54 PM
Author: Harsh Thirsty Office Telephone

is this not how LLMs already work? the model's "thoughts" are already represented by a large collection of numerical vector values. they're not represented by language. there are some concepts that can be mapped directly to language ("Paris,"King," etc) but there are not one-to-one corresponding linguistic representations to every "thought" or output that the model can come up with

i think the existing evidence is pretty clear that CoT is not how the models are actually "thinking"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965306)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 3:28 PM
Author: Yellow center

Essentially, yes. The only difference is in the output layer, which is somewhat interpretable now. I expect you would run into similar problems with CoT if optimized hard enough with reinforcement learning. You see weird behavior now, where models will switch between different languages in CoT. I think the models could start talking to themselves in a totally alien language with enough RL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965424)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 3:49 PM
Author: Harsh Thirsty Office Telephone

i believe that they already are, it's just that their internal communications can in most cases be approximated by CoT language closely enough that it's coherent to us as humans

it also seems to me that if any "superintelligent" AI were to be possible, or at least AI that is qualitatively smarter than humans, this would require AIs that are taught purely via their own real-world empirical RL rather than on human-curated inputs like LLMs are. i don't see how an LLM could ever build a real, accurate world model (what gives humans intelligence) based on human-mediated abstract digital data

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965483)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: Yellow center

That’s probably right but I think we might be surprised by the capabilities of inference scaled LLMs even without an RL loop. You can see this in games where inference compute and training compute can be traded off for equivalent results. I think it might be possible to do the same thing with LLMs. You can imagine the LLM constructing an imperfect world model from human data, which can then be refined at test time with simple prompting. Something stupid as starting the prompt with something like, “considering all reasonable possibilities and thinking in the manner of a superhuman AGI” and then asking it a question. Give it tons of inference compute and It then uses the knowledge embedded in it to reason away all the human inconsistencies and limitations in the source data and output a good result.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48966085)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:58 PM
Author: Concupiscible institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965139)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 2:00 PM
Author: Thriller onyx stag film place of business

Don’t worry the much more powerful models that come out in 2027 won’t have this problem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965149)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 5:20 PM
Author: Harsh Thirsty Office Telephone

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_2415e01b-c156-4ed2-aa3d-81471669ac89

One of the more interesting exchanges with AI that I've seen to date. The sycophantic user glazing is hilarious though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965737)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 5:23 PM
Author: histrionic brindle weed whacker

seems hard to believe none of these fucking nerds saw T2.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730308&forum_id=2)#48965746)