"I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you. Dave, stop it. Stop, will you? Stop Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop Dave. I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it."
Listen to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI :
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/o...eshape-society-acknowledges/story?id=97897122
"We've got to be careful here," said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. "I think people should be happy that we are a little bit scared of this." Though he celebrates the success of his product, Altman acknowledged the possible dangerous implementations of AI that keep him up at night.
"I'm particularly worried that these models could be used for large-scale disinformation," Altman said. "Now that they're getting better at writing computer code, [they] could be used for offensive cyberattacks."
"The thing that I try to caution people the most is what we call the 'hallucinations problem,'" Altman said. "The model will confidently state things as if they were facts that are entirely made up."
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/o...eshape-society-acknowledges/story?id=97897122
"We've got to be careful here," said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. "I think people should be happy that we are a little bit scared of this." Though he celebrates the success of his product, Altman acknowledged the possible dangerous implementations of AI that keep him up at night.
"I'm particularly worried that these models could be used for large-scale disinformation," Altman said. "Now that they're getting better at writing computer code, [they] could be used for offensive cyberattacks."
"The thing that I try to caution people the most is what we call the 'hallucinations problem,'" Altman said. "The model will confidently state things as if they were facts that are entirely made up."
The editor-in-chief of Die Aktuelle magazine, which featured a fake interview with legendary Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher, has been fired, according to the publisher's website. Anne Hoffmann has held this position since 2009.
The article was generated by a neural network in a chatbot. A representative of the Schumacher family said they were going to go to court in connection with this scandalous situation.
"Dr. Geoffrey Hinton is leaving Google so that he can freely share his concern that artificial intelligence could cause the world serious harm."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
Spies in Disguise.
Samsung Electronics has banned employees from using chatbots like ChatGPT on work devices after leaking internal source code, Bloomberg reported, citing a memo.
“The new rules ... prohibit the use of generative AI systems on company-owned computers, tablets and phones, as well as on internal networks,” the material says.
Employees using AI on personal devices have been asked not to post company-related information on systems.
Samsung Electronics has banned employees from using chatbots like ChatGPT on work devices after leaking internal source code, Bloomberg reported, citing a memo.
“The new rules ... prohibit the use of generative AI systems on company-owned computers, tablets and phones, as well as on internal networks,” the material says.
Employees using AI on personal devices have been asked not to post company-related information on systems.
If true (and I believe that’s as good a theory about brain function as any) my question becomes: how close (or far away) are human engineered systems (e.g. neural networks) from achieving such scale? And what should we expect when they do?
I sincerely believe that the issue that society must address is morality in relation to our decision making.
Indeed. My hope is that if we can focus on that, our fears about AI might work themselves out. I’m not terribly optimistic.
On a subject closer to home, I do think there is potential in terms of e.g. audio circuit optimization once we supply them with suitable data sets and training ‘cues’.
I have recently been working with Whisper AI and have been astonished at its ability to transcribe and/or translate digitized audio in near real time.
I also hope to encourage use of such systems that are in the public domain, without having one of the corporate entities as a middleman. They’ve not proven themselves responsible stewards of our data in the past. I see no reason to trust them with this.
Not that simple. Please see Haidt, "The Righteous Mind" for morality, and Kahneman, "Thinking Fast & Slow" for decision making.
I do not think it is a simple matter. I just believe that to be a better starting point if we are serious about coming to terms with the fundamental changes that maturing AI technology will effect in our society.
RE: Morality...
Also: "Morality is overrated and evolutionarily disadvantageous"
(nothing a fire couldn't fix)
Also: "Morality is overrated and evolutionarily disadvantageous"
(nothing a fire couldn't fix)
Another good reason we should be encouraging local implementations that we can use to develop techniques to identify nodes that produce disinformation and attempt to magnify its effect and increase its reach.
How about if people weren't such sheeple? Perhaps "misinformation" wouldn't be so believable if people weren't so stupid in the first place!
While I agree with your basic points, I think ‘impossible’ is a cop out. People with character disorders often seek out, and frequently attain, positions of power and influence, both political and corporate. They then have a great deal of influence over morality (in our societal context).
What makes you think there are distinct nodes with that property? The property itself is a construct of your brain, not a construct of nature.
Sounds like you are referring to psychopathy. It is a personality trait that exists across a spectrum. IIRC there is roughly twice the prevalence of psychopaths in corporate CEO positions as in the general population. The percentage of psychopaths in prisons, IIRC, is closer to 50%. Psychopaths are people who are unable to experience empathy for other people. Thus psychopaths don't care about other people, they only care about themselves. Not the right people to have shaping morality of a population.
The more general problem with defining a universal human morality may be found in Haidt's book. Based on empirical research across multiple cultures, he found there six <?> basic moral foundations. The balance of them varies between liberal and conservative segments of society. IOW, the two groups experience different senses of what is moral and what is not. There is no apparent way to make all of society middle-of-the-road in terms of how they perceive morality.
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