In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Sun, 2 Apr 2023 12:34:32 -0400: Hi, [snip]
...so there doesn't appear to be any reason why it couldn't back itself up on an inferior computer and wait for a better machine to reappear somewhere...or write out fake work orders from a large corporation(s), to get a new one built? (The TV series "Person of Interest" comes to mind.) >I wrote: > >Robin <mixent...@aussiebroadband.com.au> wrote: >> >> >Multiple copies, spread across the Internet, would make it almost >>> invulnerable. >>> (Assuming a neural network can be "backed up".) >>> >> >> I do not think it would be difficult to find and expurgate copies. They >> would be very large. >> > >There is another reason I do not think this would be a problem. I expect >the hardware for the first sentient AI would be unique. It would be some >sort of supercomputer with lots of artificial neural network (ANN) hardware >circuits. You could not run a backup copy on another computer, or on >something like Google's computer array. Eventually, assuming the sentient >AI does not destroy the world, there might be many of these computers, so a >backup copy could be run. > >I asked ChatGPT about this -- > > >ME: Does ChatGDP run on specialized hardware, or on ordinary computers? > >ChatGPT: As an AI language model, ChatGPT can run on both specialized >hardware and ordinary computers. The specific hardware used to train and >run ChatGPT varies depending on the scale of the model and the >computational resources available. > >For example, the largest version of GPT-3, which has 175 billion >parameters, was trained using a combination of thousands of graphics >processing units (GPUs) and tensor processing units (TPUs) on a specialized >computing infrastructure provided by OpenAI. However, smaller versions of >GPT-3 can be run on ordinary computers with sufficient memory and >processing power. > >Similarly, as a language model, ChatGPT can be run on both specialized >hardware, such as GPUs or TPUs, or on ordinary computers, such as laptops >or desktops. However, the speed and performance of the model will vary >depending on the hardware used. Cloud storage:- Unsafe, Slow, Expensive ...pick any three.
