Maybe they have seen AI fail for so long due to poor performance that it makes AI safety experts seem like they are vastly overestimating what AI can do?
Ask HN: Do older programmers/CS academics view AI safety as a form of arrogance?
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#2What are talking about?
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#3What are talking about?
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#4What are talking about?
I think for older programmers/CS academics, the second most surprising thing about the ChatGPT breakthrough in 2022 was that people cared about AI safety.
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#5I would use the word naïveté, but arrogance too, sure.
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#6What do you mean specifically by safety? It seems everyone, young and old, is running AI in YOLO-mode with full system access.
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#7Define “older”, please.
Someone is older in late 30s. :)
Or did you mean “those who experienced mainframes”?
Thanks.
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#8What do you mean specifically by safety? It seems everyone, young and old, is running AI in YOLO-mode with full system access.
It's why I built the yoloAI tool, in fact!
Re: Ask HN: Do older programmers/CS academics view AI safety as a form of arrogance?
#9If you asking that do experienced programmers think AI safety experts (i.e. ai will doom the world) are overstating theie position the answer is that things are not the same and you cannot predict the future based on the past.
A much better approach would be to just see for yourself what you think. Use it and see how good/bad it is because anything you read or see on social media is likely just marketing.
Re: Ask HN: Do older programmers/CS academics view AI safety as a form of arrogance?
#10What do you mean specifically by safety? It seems everyone, young and old, is running AI in YOLO-mode with full system access.
It's why I built the yoloAI tool, in fact!
That looks useful. I currently run OpenCode inside a containerd/Kata container and I see you support that backend. One thing I've been lazy with because it hasn't bit me yet is assuming the agent won't touch ".git", and diffing afterward. Being able to diff/apply modifications from the sandbox copy would be useful.