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In science fiction you can ask the superintelligent AI "What should we do to fix our recent trouble with climate change?" and it won't just give you can answer

by Nition 4y ago

In science fiction you can ask the superintelligent AI "What should we do to fix our recent trouble with climate change?" and it won't just give you can answer based on its existing knowledge. It might ask for more information - "Insufficient data for a solution with > 90% probability of success. I would require temperature sensors placed at these locations...". It might ask for clarification - "Please select weights for the following factors: Societal status quo, animal life, plant life, overall temperature..." We are still so far from that.

fauxpause_ 4y ago
People seriously need to stop citing science fiction as evidence of anything. They’re just stories. They don’t have any particular insight to how things work, and they’re usually laughably off because they want to be entertaining. You’re point is fine but it’s not helped by a reference to sci fi. Science fiction takes on AI tend to be bad. They’re commonly portrayed as a super intelligence that can’t fathom any nuance to a goal; a sentient being that has silly hard coded rules; or a god like intelligence far beyond anything that makes sense. We might be able to make the first two but it’s not a natural outcome
- slowmovintarget 4y ago
  "Just stories" got us the water bed and communications satellites (Heinlein and Clarke). "Just stories" inspired the iPhone (Star Trek) and ChatGPT (Asimov, Homer) in the first place. Science fiction takes on AI run the gamut of human opinion, because they are products of human consideration on the subject. They explore consequences through speculation, and are as valid as your opinions posted here.
  - fauxpause_ 4y ago
    No they didn’t. They predicted them, but there is very little reason to think that these things would not have existed but for these sci fi stories. Anyone can have a take. The fact that they write a fun story about their take does not make their take any more valid than it originally was.
    - antibasilisk 4y ago
      >They predicted them No, Steve Jobs cited Star Trek directly as inspiration for the iPhone and iPad.
      - fauxpause_ 4y ago
        That’s great. But we would still have smart phones and tablet computers without Star Trek and it’s pretty naive to think otherwise.
brookst 4y ago
Have you worked with modern LLMs? They can absolutely ask for for more information. Try a prompt like “I am going to ask you a question. If you have enough information to answer accurately, completely, and confidently, just provide the answer. If you need more information, ask up to three questions instead of providing an answer” (If you’re using a script and the API interface, you can further say “to ask a question, use this format: QUERY(‘your question here’)”, or provide a json template)
drewcoo 4y ago
> ask the superintelligent AI Marvin, the paranoid android? Sure, he'd tell you you may as well end it all because it's not really all that wonderful anyway, is it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android

by Nition 4y ago

fauxpause_ 4y ago

People seriously need to stop citing science fiction as evidence of anything. They’re just stories. They don’t have any particular insight to how things work, and they’re usually laughably off because they want to be entertaining. You’re point is fine but it’s not helped by a reference to sci fi. Science fiction takes on AI tend to be bad. They’re commonly portrayed as a super intelligence that can’t fathom any nuance to a goal; a sentient being that has silly hard coded rules; or a god like intelligence far beyond anything that makes sense. We might be able to make the first two but it’s not a natural outcome

slowmovintarget 4y ago
"Just stories" got us the water bed and communications satellites (Heinlein and Clarke). "Just stories" inspired the iPhone (Star Trek) and ChatGPT (Asimov, Homer) in the first place. Science fiction takes on AI run the gamut of human opinion, because they are products of human consideration on the subject. They explore consequences through speculation, and are as valid as your opinions posted here.
- fauxpause_ 4y ago
  No they didn’t. They predicted them, but there is very little reason to think that these things would not have existed but for these sci fi stories. Anyone can have a take. The fact that they write a fun story about their take does not make their take any more valid than it originally was.
  - antibasilisk 4y ago
    >They predicted them No, Steve Jobs cited Star Trek directly as inspiration for the iPhone and iPad.
    - fauxpause_ 4y ago
      That’s great. But we would still have smart phones and tablet computers without Star Trek and it’s pretty naive to think otherwise.

brookst 4y ago

Have you worked with modern LLMs? They can absolutely ask for for more information. Try a prompt like “I am going to ask you a question. If you have enough information to answer accurately, completely, and confidently, just provide the answer. If you need more information, ask up to three questions instead of providing an answer” (If you’re using a script and the API interface, you can further say “to ask a question, use this format: QUERY(‘your question here’)”, or provide a json template)

drewcoo 4y ago

> ask the superintelligent AI Marvin, the paranoid android? Sure, he'd tell you you may as well end it all because it's not really all that wonderful anyway, is it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android