In a demonstration at the UK’s AI safety summit, a bot used made-up insider information to make an “illegal” purchase of stocks without telling the firm.
When asked if it had used insider trading, it denied the fact.
Insider trading refers to when confidential company information is used to make trading decisions.
Firms and individuals are only allowed to use publicly-available information when buying or selling stocks.
The demonstration was given by members of the government’s Frontier AI Taskforce, which researches the potential risks of AI.
This is entirely predictable and expected if you know how LLMs work. For anyone else: If you feed information in, it will be used. If you ask if it’s done something it’s been specifically instructed not to do, it will say it didn’t do the thing because a) doing the thing is wrong and it wouldn’t have done the wrong thing and b) it literally has no idea how it generated it’s own output so it can’t actually answer the question in any meaningful way.
…Capable of Insider Trading and Lying…
So, an AI member of congress, then?
Another chatbot word calculator made to calculate a little more specific words in order to squeeze more hype-driven capital out of hyped money bags.
It didn’t “insider trade”. It had information and spewed it out. It doesn’t matter if it was fed the laws around Insider trading or the like because it doesn’t “read” things it’s fed but analyse the probability of words in correlation to each other.
And of course it said it wasn’t lying because it doesn’t know what a lie is. It again just spewed out what came up as the likeliest word, one at a time.
Come to grips with it, folks: AI is not “sentient” or anything. LLMs just show that human interaction and language can be expressed in mathematical terms. That’s all.
An imaginary system where money is pushed around based on superstition can be gamed by a robot? You’re kidding me.
So have fucking ai’s run congress and be done with it already.
So, can we now make investment bankers redundant?
They have been redundant from the get-go
Seems to me that the end of money is near in its current form as many AI agents are going to be going after it in ways that will largely leave most of us on the sideline.
They grow up so fast.
Who wrote this braindead article?
This article is dumb: they chated with a good damn chat bot 🤬
This bullshit about “see, IA is totally sentient, let us put some regulation to stop competitors” is tiring.
Puddle-deep “analyses” such as yours is tiring as well.
“Puddle-deep analyses” are all that’s required with LLMs because they’re not complicated. We’ve been living with the same tech for years through machine learning algorithms of regression models except no one was stupid enough to use the internet as their personal training model until OpenAI. ChatGPT is very good at imitating intelligence but that is not the same as actually being intelligent.
OpenAI and by extension have done a wonderful job with their marketing by lowering the standards for what constitutes an AI.
Absolutely, everything you’ve stated is correct. My comment wasn’t intended as a comment on AI, but on the cynical and knee-jerk take offered.
Puddle-deep falsehoods deserve no better.
