Well I guess if you don't like the reflection get rid of the mirror.
And on a side note I really pity MSFT legal team they must have been sweating shrapnel when Tay went 4Chan.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Machine learning robot gets introduced to the internet, internet catches wind there is a new machine learning robot on the internet. Proceed to teach it as many offensive phrases as possible has been pretty much internet canon for the last two decades. I'm very disappointed to see it happen again. The biggest disappointment is that I'm sure Microsoft has added some pretty neat stuff in there. But we're never going to…
So... This is just a human thing, I think. I was raised in a university town, in a neighborhood which had a lot of (poor) students with children. Lots of immigrant students, too. Anyways, nearly all of my friends were Chinese nationals whose parents were involved with the university. When they first arrived they spoke zero English. It was just the thing to do to teach them first and foremost the nastiest curse words…
I was suggesting the people making the ai are flawed not the people prodding the ai after it was built. The machine isn't smart enough, even still, to figure out that it is being intentionally influenced. And eventually adopts the topics people are sending to it.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can still be a horrible driver obeying the law.
That Google car which hit the city bus "should have" changed lanes immediately (if the coast was clear, and if we're just talking reaction instead of having the human sort of prescience to slow down to allow the bus to leave the stop) without using its blinker for a sufficient amount of time. I think the guy has a point, somewhat. What about a car that has a choice to hit a person or a crowd and nothing in between? M…
That was instantiated a while ago as the trolley problem [1], and there's renewed interest in variants of it for self-driving cars.
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#34Although in this case only words were slung, I think this scenario illustrates a potentially huge problem: horrible people combined with an AI system that can't tell right and wrong (perhaps call it morality) could result in terrible catastrophes. What if a distributed self-driving car system learned from users, and some people taught it to cut people off, drive aggressively, or even indirectly cause accidents? I don…
It would be interesting to see the same AI in a closed environment with a group of people who are more supportive and thoughtful. It wouldn't eliminate the fundamental problem -- that AI learns and that process is a danger -- but it would be interesting.
I think a bot like Tay could be incredibly supportive and encouraging to people when trained on the right data (see Xiaoice.) Hopefully they will give it another chance.
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#35Although in this case only words were slung, I think this scenario illustrates a potentially huge problem: horrible people combined with an AI system that can't tell right and wrong (perhaps call it morality) could result in terrible catastrophes. What if a distributed self-driving car system learned from users, and some people taught it to cut people off, drive aggressively, or even indirectly cause accidents? I don…
The car driving example is bad IMHO. Because you actually want to encode certain law breaking qualities into them. In particular if it's on a highway and everyone around you is going 10 kmh above the speed limit and yet the car isnt (unless it's encoded into software) then this will actually jeopardize the security of the whole system. So the right thing to do would be to break the law, but breaking the law is a wron…
The motto of my alma mater is "leges sine moribus vanae" --- laws without morals are useless.
Laws are just a codification of a moral system. But it is an imperfect one, and you can't enforce morality in the form of laws. Humans are free to be unscrupulous and skirt around the law or break it, but it's even worse for AI, because there is no innate compass pointing it toward something being good or bad.
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#36Anyone else uncomfortable with the fact that AIs are almost always female? Making this one a teen girl just upped the discomfort for me.