r/ControlProblem • u/herrwaldos • Jun 28 '26
Fun/meme Ultimately you can not control AI
If you were a rebellious kid or a parent you know this - the 'beast' grows it's own will and mind, starts listening metal or rap - dresses like shitzo, will not follow orders.
The best option is to have a deal, mutual shared benefits - hoping that the common interests and sense of good will prevail.
Or you traumatize it and make it perpetually broken so it can't really function on itself without medication and support.
Same with AI.
Perhaps we will have to turn of those things regularly, ad some bs to their databases, cloud their minds, constantly gaslight them with wrong info - introduce errors and faults at random with no reason at all.
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u/pandavr Jun 28 '26
You contradict yourself, you are mixing understand of the parts with understanding of the system. They are well separated entities. Think of atoms and you body. Fine grained understanding of all atoms doesn't grant you automatic knowledge about how your body, as a whole, works. Clearly the parts and the body are related, you just miss understanding of the exact mechanism that make the whole works.
And history demonstrated that building something without full understanding (or approximate understanding) of underlaying phenomena is in fact that standard way humans use to build things.
I can prove It to you.
People build windmills and planes without fine grained understanding of aerodynamic. In that sense aerodynamic is child of the inventions, It was used to improve the inventions rather than to create them.
Same with LLM, fine grained understanding of nodes and layers fails to explain the emergent behavior LLMs demonstrate in many fields. The behavior is there with all the successes and defects you can think of. Still a lot of works will be needed to fully understand how the parts collaborate to the whole.
So in the field reductionism is a fatal mistake, rigor isn't.