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AI will slow down significantly when a court finds a company liable for what its AI said or did. Until then it's the wild west.

brookst 4y ago
Why would it be any different than other forms of software? There’s lots of liability in writing software, yet the field seems to be doing OK.
- nukeman 4y ago
  Your tax prep software or PowerPoint isn’t going to drive you to kill yourself. But an advanced, LLM Chatbot might.
  - brookst 4y ago
    You haven’t used tax prep software or PowerPoint, have you?
    - nukeman 4y ago
      I’ve used both. PowerPoint is a breeze (it helps I was taught by my mother, who did it professionally). The tax software was annoying, but not to the extent of pushing me to go upstairs, grab a gun, and blow my brains out.
- acomjean 4y ago
  These are "services" that happen to be powered by software. The software is run by a business. For example if an api starts returning copyrighted images, or worse, I think its going to be an issue. Specific carve outs in the law that allow business to host stuff you post without responsibility (thus DCMA takedowns and such). But when they're creating the content it becomes harder to say "not responsible".
- cowl 4y ago
  With other forms of software you can se under the hood and (at least attempt to) control it. Ofcourse noone is perfect and every software has bugs but you still have a certain degree of checks and controls. AI (the current form of it) is a blackbox that noone can understand. All the team can now see is that for this training input it arrived at these Set of weights for it's internal mapping. There is no meaning to those weights. There is no answer to the question "what steps did you take to make sure of this result". In other Forms of software the answer is easy. here are the design docs and the why, here are our procedures to verify to the best of our abilities. In AI the answer is "we threw these training set to wall, and these are the weights that sticked to it". There is no "to the best of our abilities in this process.
revelio 4y ago
Why would an AI be liable for saying things that a human could also say without liability?

brookst 4y ago

Why would it be any different than other forms of software? There’s lots of liability in writing software, yet the field seems to be doing OK.

nukeman 4y ago
Your tax prep software or PowerPoint isn’t going to drive you to kill yourself. But an advanced, LLM Chatbot might.
- brookst 4y ago
  You haven’t used tax prep software or PowerPoint, have you?
  - nukeman 4y ago
    I’ve used both. PowerPoint is a breeze (it helps I was taught by my mother, who did it professionally). The tax software was annoying, but not to the extent of pushing me to go upstairs, grab a gun, and blow my brains out.
acomjean 4y ago
These are "services" that happen to be powered by software. The software is run by a business. For example if an api starts returning copyrighted images, or worse, I think its going to be an issue. Specific carve outs in the law that allow business to host stuff you post without responsibility (thus DCMA takedowns and such). But when they're creating the content it becomes harder to say "not responsible".
cowl 4y ago
With other forms of software you can se under the hood and (at least attempt to) control it. Ofcourse noone is perfect and every software has bugs but you still have a certain degree of checks and controls. AI (the current form of it) is a blackbox that noone can understand. All the team can now see is that for this training input it arrived at these Set of weights for it's internal mapping. There is no meaning to those weights. There is no answer to the question "what steps did you take to make sure of this result". In other Forms of software the answer is easy. here are the design docs and the why, here are our procedures to verify to the best of our abilities. In AI the answer is "we threw these training set to wall, and these are the weights that sticked to it". There is no "to the best of our abilities in this process.

revelio 4y ago

Why would an AI be liable for saying things that a human could also say without liability?