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> The obsession is because we are going to anthromorphise it, and then we're going to put it in charge of important things in our lives and that is the risk, i
by Quarrelsome 4y ago
> The obsession is because we are going to anthromorphise it, and then we're going to put it in charge of important things in our lives
and that is the risk, its not the AI that's the problem, its people so removed from the tech that they fail to RTFM. Even the GPT4 release is extremely clear that its poor in high-stakes environments and its up to the tech community to educate ALL the casuals (best we can) so some idiot executive don't put it in full charge of mortgage underwriting or something.
- falcolas 4y ago> its people so removed from the tech that they fail to RTFM I find it highly amusing to think anything resembling an average user of tech has actually RTFM. Heck, I still haven't finished the manual on Firefox and here I am using it as my daily driver. And it has people who actually understand how it all works writing the "manual". EDIT: How many landlords have read the instructions on how RealPage's rent pricing software works, and how it sets values? 10%? Less?
- Quarrelsome 4y agowell in this case the RTFM is just the paragraph on the release page that warns against using it in any high-risk scenario.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agoDoes firefox actually have a complete manual? One that accurately covers the behavior of every option in about:config. I'd love to be able to diff one file to see what things they've screwed with this time when I update.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoHeck, MDN doesn’t even have full documentation for >10 year old tech Mozilla was tightly coupled to in the same time frame. Try discerning how to use XML-related features in a browser and you’ll very quickly find yourself trying to extrapolate from C/Java/even PHP stuff that might be tangentially related but probably isn’t, from increasingly less relevant websites. I couldn’t read the manual even though I tried.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago> its up to the tech community to educate ALL the casuals (best we can) so some idiot executive don't put it in full charge of mortgage underwriting or something tech community are the idiots. Look at google autobanning based on AI The inmates are running the asylum
- NorthOf33rd 4y agoI wish it was this simple, but looking through the last month of “show hn” posts makes it clear that the tech community can’t be trusted either. There are countless examples of authors promoting their latest toy (startup idea) to shoehorn chatgpt into a high stakes environment.
- prox 4y agoWhile I am enthusiastic about using these new tools properly and ethically (for instance creativity or helpful insights) I do worry that nothing has been learned of the dotcom craze, the NFT craze and name another bubble here. It is my sincere hope to that people stop and wonder for a moment before the gold rush adrenaline starts pumping.
- t-3 4y agoWon't happen. Money (aka survival) is too strong a motive. It's both instinctual and rational to ride the wave.
- rnk 4y agoOur almost 80-year-old leaders in the house & in the Senate & in the presidency are not well equipped to make good choices in this area. I'm not convinced professional computer scientists are really well equipped but at least we have potential to understand the scenario. But instead it's going to be people that think global warming doesn't exist because they brought a snowball into the Senate that make choices.
- SoftTalker 4y agoStrongly agree, we need mandatory retirement at 65 for elected office.
- moshegramovsky 4y agoWhat are the benefits of this?
- lazyasciiart 4y agoDe facto term limits is a big benefit in itself, in my opinion. But also, we know that we haven’t solved the problems of aging, and old people as a class suffer from distinct cognitive problems. If it’s reasonable to ban people under 35, or under 21, from the presidency, it’s reasonable to ban people over 65 as well.
- moshegramovsky 4y agoThank you :)
- ChatGTP 4y agoageist much?
- beefield 4y agoI have occasionally been toying with the idea that the number of votes you have would be dependent on your expected lifetime left. The longer hou have to live with your electee's decisions the more say you should have.
- makeitdouble 4y ago> people so removed from the tech that they fail to RTFM Users in the current situation are presented with a big rainbow glowing button with a "FUTURE OF TECH" neon above it, and some small print memo tucked in the corner to explain why they shouldn't push the button. Users should know better, for sure, but companies getting away with completely misleading names and grandiose statements regurgitated as is by the press should take 90% of the blame in my opinion.
- resource0x 4y agoIn a current environment, mortgage underwriting can be done by a drumming bunny. Another bunny will bail them out. Not a good example :-)
- vishal0123 4y ago> some idiot executive don't put it in full charge of mortgage underwriting There are two scenario that you are mixing: Mortgage writing using GPT make more money for the lender: I don't think it is a tech community responsibility to give wrong suggestion against GPT, and it should be handled in legal way. GPT fails and mortgage and using GPT could mean loss for the lender: It would correctly push the market against relying on LLM, and I don't have any sympathy for those companies.
- smiley1437 4y agoThe issue is when the lender is too big to fail and get bailed out at the taxpayer's expense
- femto 4y agoThe people who put an AI in charge will have RTFM and fully understood it. They will do it anyway, as it will suit their own ends at the time.