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> "This AI stuff is dangerous to world" It's not exactly that, their rhetoric is: "This AI stuff is dangerous to world if YOU use it. But when we use it, it is
by b-x 6y ago
> "This AI stuff is dangerous to world"
It's not exactly that, their rhetoric is: "This AI stuff is dangerous to world if YOU use it. But when we use it, it is good."
All entities think that they hold the key to good values, while the others are always suspected of hiding vile intentions.
- albntomat0 6y agoThat's a stronger opinion about their views than necessarily is true. Based on their actions, OpenAI seems to (rightly, in my opinion) view that some people would misuse GPT-3/etc, even if the majority would not.
- luckylion 6y agoThey said the same about gpt-2 though, and then open sourced it anyway, just not adding their trained models. Others did the work themselves, and the work didn't end, apparently.
- mtgp1000 6y agoDefine misuse.
- SaltyLemonZest 6y agoOne obvious example would be to fully automate social engineering email scams. Imagine how much disruption it would cause if spearphishing became as common as robocalls have become post-automation.
- admax88q 6y agoIf it became that common it would quickly cease to be that effective. Spearfishing works because it's rare, so it doesn't automatically set off your bullshit detector. Most people don't fall for "cheap vi@gra" emails anymore. Social engineering in general is effective because it's rare enough that people don't feel the need to develop policies and strategies for preventing it.
- SaltyLemonZest 6y agoSure, but there's no reason to expect the required strategies to be non-disruptive. It's now impossible for anyone not on my contact list to call me, because I won't pick up or listen to their messages - it'd be a tragedy if email became similarly locked down.
- reportgunner 6y agoWouldn't the same AI be able to detect that the text was generated by itself ?
- albntomat0 6y agoFor example, convincing and hard to detect fake content generation on Facebook/reddit/etc
- johnwyles 6y agoThe irony is we're talking about Good vs Evil of potential AI systems. It could be a nuclear arms race but I suspect we would be better for it. When information has been free it has nearly always been of benefit to humanity.
- b-x 6y ago> [...] that some people would misuse [Insert any tool here] Following this logic, one would forbid schooling to lads based on the suspicion that they may "misuse" what they will learn to do some evil. One would use the alphabet to write threats to others. One would use a knife to stab others. So how do you police the right to access the knowledge? Should we restrict accessing knowledge to some few elites that some authority should decide who they are? IMHO knowledge should be accessible to all. The accumulation of the humanity knowledge should not be controlled by an Orwellian entity. <s> Otherwise, let's start a movement demanding to wipe online universities courses from the Internet </s>