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I did not flag it but I agree with the flag. The concerns raised in the article hold equally true for non AI software too. Relying on the modern AI trends to ba
by distcs 4y ago
I did not flag it but I agree with the flag. The concerns raised in the article hold equally true for non AI software too. Relying on the modern AI trends to bait an audience on the pretext of AI related concerns when the concerns are equally true for all software is something many readers here would not appreciate.
And as if that wasn't enough, the phrasing about killing and spouse clearly make it clickbait.
- scrumper 4y agoSo that's an interesting point It's the first example of (seemingly) non-deterministic software with the capability of accessing an API that I can think of. Really it feels like a different class of thing than the toy examples elsewhere in this page (pull the trigger when the hash of some input starts with a 1 or whatever). I think picking up on the AI aspect is valid; those "modern AI trends" have sparked a broad discussion about how much agency to give LLMs. It's fundamentally a different discussion than the general one about concerns in software. My point is, you might try to force me to accept a correspondence between these AI models and any other piece of software, and you would probably be right in a mathematical sense, but the curiosity and fear that Bing has provoked is actually about human feelings, not technology. That's why I objected to the flag. Every other comment on this page is evidence of the validity of the issues raised in the post.