Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
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Re: Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
#2> AIs will get more reliable over time, like old software is more reliable than new software.
:)
Was that a humam Freudian slip, or artificial one?
Yes, old software is often more reliable than new.
Re: Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
#3But this is why using the AI in the production of (almost) deterministic systems makes so much sense, including saving on execution costs.
ISTR someone else round here observing how much more effective it is to ask these things to write short scripts that perform a task than doing the task themselves, and this is my experience as well.
If/when AI actually gets much better it will be the boss that has the problem. This is one of the things that baffles me about the managerial globalists - they don't seem to appreciate that a suitably advanced AI will point the finger at them for inefficiency much more so than at the plebs, for which it will have a use for quite a while.
Re: Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
#4The most likely danger with AI is concentrated power, not that sentient AI will develop a dislike for us and use us as "batteries" like in the Matrix.
Re: Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
#5> here are some example ideas that are perfectly true when applied to regular software
Hm, I'm listening, let's see.
> Software vulnerabilities are caused by mistakes in the code
That's not exactly true. In regular software, the code can be fine and you can still end up with vulnerabilities. The platform in which the code is deployed could be vulnerable, or the way it is installed make it vulnerable, and so on.
> Bugs in the code can be found by carefully analysing the code
Once again, not exactly true. Have you ever tried understanding concurrent code just by reading it? Some bugs in regular software hide in places that human minds cannot probe.
> Once a bug is fixed, it won’t come back again
Ok, I'm starting to feel this is a troll post. This guy can't be serious.
> If you give specifications beforehand, you can get software that meets those specifications
Have you read The Mythical Man-Month?
Re: Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
#6The most likely danger with AI is concentrated power, not that sentient AI will develop a dislike for us and use us as "batteries" like in the Matrix.
Seems like a self fulfilling prophecy
Re: Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
#7The most likely danger with AI is concentrated power, not that sentient AI will develop a dislike for us and use us as "batteries" like in the Matrix.
I'm not so sure it will be that either, it would be having multiple AIs essentially at war with each other over access to GPUs/energy or whatever the materials are needed to grow if/when that happens. We will end up as pawns in this conflict.
Re: Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
#8The most likely danger with AI is concentrated power, not that sentient AI will develop a dislike for us and use us as "batteries" like in the Matrix.
For one thing, we'd make shit batteries.
Re: Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
#9> here are some example ideas that are perfectly true when applied to regular software Hm, I'm listening, let's see. > Software vulnerabilities are caused by mistakes in the code That's not exactly true. In regular software, the code can be fine and you can still end up with vulnerabilities. The platform in which the code is deployed could be vulnerable, or the way it is installed make it vulnerable, and so on. > Bug…
You should read the footnote marked [1] after "a note for technical folk" at the beginning of the article. He is very consciously making sweeping generalizations about how software works in order to make things intelligible to non-technical readers.
Re: Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
#10The most likely danger with AI is concentrated power, not that sentient AI will develop a dislike for us and use us as "batteries" like in the Matrix.
The reality is that the CEO/executive class already has developed a dislike for us and is trying to use us as “batteries” like in the Matrix.