The fact that there are no advanced AI chat-bots because they might (I mean they will lol) say something offensive is absurd. we are such babies.
General AI is already here.
It should be implemented on twitter or wherever and used to teach us about ourselves.
driven by engagement, untethered by morals.
A dispassionate glimpse into what sells.
An AI that exploits our engagement, for good or evil.
The bot would become infamous and in due course banned.
Teaching us even more.
What are you on about? There are AI driven chat bots. When they aren’t used it’s not because they might say something offensive. General AI is not here by any definition or redefinition of General AI. We are not fragile.
AI driven chat bots are routinely deployed, yes. But it's also true that at least one bot generated content that spooked its owner:
"The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement. As it learns, some of its responses are inappropriate and indicative of the types of interactions some people are having with it. We're making some adjustments to Tay." (Microsoft statement)
This type of snarky tone isn't that constructive and doesn't add to debate.
That being said, I don't see how the existence of image-gpt supports the notion that GeneralAI exists. Image-gpt couldn't (for example) write the next version of itself.
Ah yes, the only possible issue with releasing fully general AI is that it might say something offensive. Not because we don't have it at all, not because if we did we shouldn't just let it out like a lion in the gazelle pen to see what it does, because of those snowflakes!
reddit is designed for censorship.
It has been a dumpster-fire of group-think since 2018.
Anything against the collective is quarantined and then banned. I stopped going there when they banned every decent meme subreddit bc of 'offensive jokes'
How the fcuk is a rare out of print book on ebay targeting children? You mean like if I kid sees it he might pick it up because of the friendly art on the cover?
After this covid fiasco, im done with models. You guys have fun supporting the climate austerity that is to come, I'm going to just believe that the earth has it's own regulation magic that we have not uncovered yet.
I share your pain in society's mishandling of covid, and understand your skepticism towards poorly applied models. Society is much more complex than most models can address.
The issue with the faith in the earth's own regulation magic is that it also assumes that the regulation magic is friendly to us, and/or that the goal of the regulation is to maintain a steady state which is good for humanity, or that it is even to maintain a steady state (maybe it's idea of 'regulation' is maintaining a chaotic cycle).
I used to joke that climate change was really the dinosaurs trying to come back; we are pumping FOSSIL fuels into the air with an end result of recreating a climate more similar to the warmer days when the dinosaurs roamed.
by issue, I mean "problems even if we assume that the earth's regulatory/homeostatic mechanisms are properly functioning."
That assumption is also problematic, if one allows for the possibility that our technological powers and population size mean we are pushing on the system faster than its regulatory mechanisms can compensate. Our bodies have highly tuned regulatory mechanisms to control body temp, which work amazingly well as long as ambient temps stay within a certain range. Outside that range, not so well.
> I'm going to just believe that the earth has it's own regulation magic that we have not uncovered yet.
Well, it, er, does, but it isn't very good (see ice ages), and operates on timescales that would be inconvenient to us. If humanity died out tomorrow, then CO2 levels would likely get back to normal eventually, but it's not really a _great_ solution, is it? We can hopefully do better.
This type of 'extinction leade' typifies why i switched teams. no one thinks that earth will become Venutian. flooding, soil loss, bio loss, whatever the worst part will be; extinction is not even on the table. fuck these models and the horses they ride in on.
Someone you know might have mapped that! Local data usually comes from the locals. If you enjoy it, one easy way to also contribute is with the StreetComplete app, which just asks you questions like "is this street lit" (my girlfriend actually asked me for that data once, if I knew how to figure out which roads are lit, so she could go running after dark and plan a good distance without going into dark areas).
Unironically this. If I stay in my big city my projected outcome is nothing but poverty in old age. Once a man stops caring about partying and getting laid the freedom to own something substantial and build on it is the new sirens call.
General AI is already here. It should be implemented on twitter or wherever and used to teach us about ourselves. driven by engagement, untethered by morals. A dispassionate glimpse into what sells. An AI that exploits our engagement, for good or evil.
The bot would become infamous and in due course banned. Teaching us even more.
But we are so fragile.