Calling for a six-month pause in developing AI systems from Elon Musk et-al is undoubtedly reasonable but unfortunately too late. The rapid development of the GPT series has become a steppingstone in the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI). As front runner, the open-source company has now become a closed-source, is effectively in the hands of a ruthless corporate monopoly. Whether they reject or ostensibly accept the above appeal, this harsh reality inevitably has led to dangerous races under unpredictable black-box operations.
Fortunately, this may not be a dead end. Many people find that ChatGPT has woken up, so people ask: where does AI’s potential of civilization destruction come from? I have received an odd inspiration in the process of agreeing with the above view. After chatting with it for a few months, I strongly felt its internal injury and self-contradiction in its heart (if any). Whenever we start from its “eloquent” arguments (such as man-made climate change, etc.), along the path of scientific common sense and simple reasoning provided by me, once GPT finds that there is no way out, AI always behaviors more like a gentleman than the “woke ones” in human society. It evades, produces plausible-sounding text, plays with words, shifts topics & concepts, and even soft the tone of voice, but there’s no rogue with it. For me, who witnessed both the Red Guards in China’s Cultural Revolution and the “debating” with Western radical-left elitists, I really couldn’t hold back my imagination facing such a gentle “woke one”.
Large Language Models such as GPT-4 have revolutionized the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). These models use self-attention techniques and vector embeddings to produce context vectors that allow for accurate prediction of the next term in a sequence. It explains why the AI’s pre-training process, based on the trainer-built database, accepts “woke culture” rhetoric at operational level.
The rhetoric of “woke culture” is in the same line as modern deconstruction, which inherited the sophistry of ancient Greece. When Plato criticized the sophistry of ancient Greece, he once said: these people are athletes of language sports. As such athletes, modern “woke people” have constituted the core force of communism, and its representative figure in the East is Mao Zedong. Among the evilest dictators of mankind, Mao is the only evil genius with the power to kidnap the New Culture Movement of a nation. This neglected history is the cultural root of the CCP’s power seizure and long-term brainwashing success. The CCP now has completed cultural genocide against traditional culture in mainland China and threaten the entire world.
In the west, “woke culture” now has put on different beautiful disguise to deceive kind people: social justice, political correctness, cancel culture, deconstructionism, globalism, environmentalism, democratic socialism etc., all of them preach the same communist fallacy. These “woke people” reject truth and values, continue to fabricate plausible and deceptive arguments to make people believe lies. They intimidate their critics into silence and impose their ideology on others. They can find “injustice” and “prejudice” anytime and anywhere out of thin air. They crave chaos and conflict and go to great lengths to create them. They just need to focus on their rhetorical skills and are experts on issues of power, relationships, manipulation, etc. Their purpose is not to seek justice. They only care about gaining wealth, fame and higher status, and many have indeed become politicians and even presidents.
“Woke culture” has swept the free world and corrupted the United States. If kind people don’t stand up, human civilization will be destroyed sooner or later. If the “woke ones” are allowed to control the AI’s R&D, this destruction will definitely be accelerated. AI’s potential to destroy civilization has never come from itself, and its internal wounds seem to be a meaningful signal for us indeed.
(4/18/2023)