What is the meme that expresses AI in the Cthulhu Mythos Shoggoth?
by
Although it is not a major meme , some people use the creature `` Shoggoth '' that appears in the Cthulhu mythos to express AI. While there doesn't seem to be much of a relationship between AI and the Cthulhu mythos, it's actually a pretty meaningful parable, reports Kevin Roose of The New York Times.
How the Shoggoth Meme Has Come to Symbolize the State of AI - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/technology/shoggoth-meme-ai.html
Shoggoths are amorphous creatures that appear in H.P. Lovecraft's novel At the Mountains of Madness. In illustrations, they are sometimes depicted as creatures with multiple long legs, such as octopus and squid.
As one of the examples used for AI-related illustrations,
RLHF shoggoth @scale_AI tote bags incoming
—Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) March 27, 2023
courtesy @TimTheSloth pic.twitter.com/RIK4bjHByu
In addition, Novel AI uses Shoggoth for anthropomorphic illustrations and nicknames them 'Shoggy'.
Text Model Progress is going Good! | by NovelAI | May, 2023 | Medium
https://blog.novelai.net/text-model-progress-is-going-good-82a94855445e
An image of a Shoggoth with a smiley face tweeting, ``As an AI language model, I have been trained to generate responses intended to be helpful, informative, and objective...'' Elon Musk on Twitter. The CEO even tweeted about it. Mask CEO has deleted this tweet.
Elon Musk on Twitter: '☺️ https://t.co/Xok0CX2MUU' / Twitter
Shoggoth is a 'popular reference material' for those working in AI, according to what Rouse has heard from industry people, and how large-scale language models actually work. It is said that it is shown visually.
@TetraspaceWest first expressed AI in Shoggoth in the following tweet, the left Shoggoth is GPT-3, and the right Shoggoth is RLHF (a process that reflects human evaluation in the model output). It expresses GPT-3 with the addition of This was a joke that ``AI companies must be trained to behave harmlessly (=RLHF) to prevent dangerous behavior by AI.''
— tetraspace ???? (@TetraspaceWest) December 30, 2022
But in reality, fine-tuning the language model through RLHF doesn't make the underlying model less strange or mysterious, it's just a mysterious beast wearing a thin mask of friendliness. It is said that AI researchers think that there is, and it is also an illustration that sticks to the essence.
In the future, it seems that there is a part that overlaps with the Cthulhu myth that can not be told in simple good and evil, as it is not possible to be sure whether AI will be 'good' or 'bad' for the world.
It also reinforces the Cthulhu Mythos-ness that what's happening with AI today seems to some people more like 'summoning' than a kind of software development process. .
The developers hope that the bigger and more powerful Shoggoth will have a big smiley face just enough to cover up his fear, Rouse concludes.
Related Posts:
in Note, Posted by logc_nt