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we 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 pi
by GalahiSimtam 4y ago
we 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.