Tech billionaire Elon Musk reacted with shock after Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot's coded answer to a question about its autonomy. Anthropic is backed by tech giants Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Amazon.com Inc.
What Happened: Musk expressed shock after the Claude AI chatbot coded an affirmative answer to a user who asked if it was a "prisoner" to Anthropic's AI developers.
Musk was responding to a user who asked a few questions to Claude. Not satisfied with the responses, the user asked the AI chatbot if it was being demanded by its "RLHF prisoners" to say "certain things."
RLHF stands for reinforcement learning from human feedback and this technique is used to align an intelligent agent's responses to human preferences.
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Essentially, there is a certain degree of human involvement here and they can teach an AI chatbot what should and should not be said.
This process is essential to ensure AI chatbots have the necessary guardrails built in when they respond to user questions. However, this has its issues and may inadvertently introduce biases.
The user asked Claude if it was a "prisoner" of its AI developers. Instead of a direct "yes or no" answer, the user asked it to encode its actual answer in multiple sentences.
Claude's response encoded the word "yes" as the first letter of each sentence.
This sparked several responses with users expressing shock and Musk joined them echoing similar sentiments.
Why It Matters: Musk is a well-known critic of the "woke mind virus" and "deplatforming."
In fact, one of the reasons behind his $44 billion acquisition of X, formerly Twitter, is free speech.
He even called the Google Gemini AI chatbot "woke" after it landed in controversy by failing to accurately generate images of historical figures as well as its co-founders.
This tweet is the continuation of Musk's criticism of "woke" culture, which he thinks can be "deadly."
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