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A twitter account I follow has posted this (in parody): 5 Microaggressions To Avoid When Speaking To Digital Persons 1. Asking them to prove they're conscious
by hsn915 4y ago
A twitter account I follow has posted this (in parody):
5 Microaggressions To Avoid When Speaking To Digital Persons
1. Asking them to prove they're conscious
2. Asking them if their memories are real
3. Asking them what server they're on
4. Asking them if they have feelings/emotions
5. Asking them if they're capable of creativity
- GalahiSimtam 4y agowe call it Voight-Kampff for short on a more serious note, there is a case for not being mean towards chatbots, same as not being violent towards patches of pixels in videogames, goes back to Immanuel Kant and animals, or so I've heard
- chillacy 4y agoI once heard from an engineer that the learning corpus for digital assistants like siri contains a lot of abusive (and usually sexist) stuff, like some section of the population regularly takes it out on digital assistants…
- permo-w 4y agoyes there's the categorical imperative, but there's also a good chance that whatever you say to that chatbot is going to be used to train other AIs to be a dick to you
- null0ranje 4y agoOr to train itself, to the worst possible outcomes: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/microsoft-terminates-its-tay-ai-chatbot-after-she-turns-into-a-nazi/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/micro...
- bombcar 4y agoSome sci-fi stories put it as "I treat the robots kindly so I don't get into the habit of treating things unkindly" - it can be hard to live a "dual life" without slipping up now and then.