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There are groups worried about the possibility that AIs will be racist or offensive. And there are groups worried that AI will recursively self improve and kill
by jimrandomh 4y ago
There are groups worried about the possibility that AIs will be racist or offensive. And there are groups worried that AI will recursively self improve and kill everyone. These are not the same, and they don't overlap much at all.
It's much, much easier to tune an AI of less-than-human intelligence until it doesn't say racist things, than it is to tune a superintelligent AI into not killing everyone. And, compared to the risk from possible future superintelligences, there just isn't much scope for a present-day system like ChatGPT to cause real harm. So, as someone coming from the AI Notkilleveryoneism perspective, I see the "what if AI is prejudiced" perspective as a dangerous distraction, I see Gebru and similar researchers as a dangerous distraction: the issues she raises will be solved without too much difficulty, whereas the risk of artificial superintelligence will not.
- nradov 4y agoYou have no evidence for the relative difficulty of tuning some hypothetical "superintelligent" AI. You are just just guessing or expressing an article of faith. I see your science fiction nonsense claim as a dangerous distraction from solving real problems that impact real people.