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>> This hacking will come naturally, as AIs become more advanced at learning, understanding, and problem-solving. Everyone is so sure "AI"s will continue impro

>> This hacking will come naturally, as AIs become more advanced at learning, understanding, and problem-solving. Everyone is so sure "AI"s will continue improving (not to say, everyone is so sure they have improved). It's going to be a little embarrassing if the foretold continuous AI improvement does not come to pass. :grabs popcorn:

palata 4y ago
I do agree, though it feels like ChatGPT, for instance, already has a lot of potential to harm. It can write disinformation at an incredible scale. Now whenever you visit a website, just ask yourself this question: "was it written by a person, or by a bot?". It's getting hard to say. Of course it does not always matter. But intuitively, wouldn't you put more trust into a website written by a human that actually understand what they wrote? "Visiting Prague in 3 days" written by a human may not be perfect, but at least the human understand the idea of "visiting a city in 3 days". Now think about actual disinformation. Can you still put any trust in an article not written on a website you know (e.g. The Guardian)? It was already a problem before, but with AI like GPT, it is now possible to "flood" the web with disinformation written in pretty high quality language...
- YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago
  >> I do agree, though it feels like ChatGPT, for instance, already has a lot of potential to harm. Absolutely, but that is because it hasn't "advanced" as much as some people seem to think. Others seem to see the problems but they seem to hope or believe that they will all go away as those systems "advance" (or "improve" or "progress") further, when they may as well just have reached a dead end after which they can only become bigger and more bloated as time goes by, and still be dumb as bricks, and the only thing that will "advance" is their ability to cause chaos and make a mess. I like this quote by Pedro Domingos: >> People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world. https://www.washington.edu/news/2015/09/17/a-q-a-with-pedro-domingos-author-of-the-master-algorithm/ https://www.washington.edu/news/2015/09/17/a-q-a-with-pedro-...
  - palata 4y ago
    Haha nice quote! :)

palata 4y ago

I do agree, though it feels like ChatGPT, for instance, already has a lot of potential to harm. It can write disinformation at an incredible scale. Now whenever you visit a website, just ask yourself this question: "was it written by a person, or by a bot?". It's getting hard to say. Of course it does not always matter. But intuitively, wouldn't you put more trust into a website written by a human that actually understand what they wrote? "Visiting Prague in 3 days" written by a human may not be perfect, but at least the human understand the idea of "visiting a city in 3 days". Now think about actual disinformation. Can you still put any trust in an article not written on a website you know (e.g. The Guardian)? It was already a problem before, but with AI like GPT, it is now possible to "flood" the web with disinformation written in pretty high quality language...

YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago
>> I do agree, though it feels like ChatGPT, for instance, already has a lot of potential to harm. Absolutely, but that is because it hasn't "advanced" as much as some people seem to think. Others seem to see the problems but they seem to hope or believe that they will all go away as those systems "advance" (or "improve" or "progress") further, when they may as well just have reached a dead end after which they can only become bigger and more bloated as time goes by, and still be dumb as bricks, and the only thing that will "advance" is their ability to cause chaos and make a mess. I like this quote by Pedro Domingos: >> People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world. https://www.washington.edu/news/2015/09/17/a-q-a-with-pedro-domingos-author-of-the-master-algorithm/ https://www.washington.edu/news/2015/09/17/a-q-a-with-pedro-...
- palata 4y ago
  Haha nice quote! :)