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Does the AI even have a frame of reference to apply "Do no evil" in a manner that makes sense to anyone?
by mikece 4y ago
Does the AI even have a frame of reference to apply "Do no evil" in a manner that makes sense to anyone?
- spaceman_2020 4y agoIf it is indeed learning from humans, I fear that it has a terrible source to model itself on.
- bitL 4y ago"Do no exploding gradient"
- pjmorris 4y agoFor comparison: Do human beings have a frame of reference to apply "Do no evil" in a manner that makes sense to everyone? Do corporations have a frame of reference to apply "Do no evil" in a manner that makes sense to someone? I think it is safe to say that two preceding questions are hotly contested, so it's hard to give AI a frame of reference.
- JohnFen 4y agoThe lack of a universal agreement about ethics doesn't mean that having an ethical frame of reference isn't important. "Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos." -- Walter Sobchak, The Big Lebowski
- pjmorris 4y ago> doesn't mean that having an ethical frame of reference isn't important. I can't emphasize how strongly I agree with you. My intent was only to point at how difficult the problem is, maybe the hardest problem in AGI or its precursors, but not nearly the best attended or funded.
- klyrs 4y agoI mean, it was trained on the dregs of the internet. It has a frame of reference to argue that any thing is evil, which will make sense to someone; and that the same thing is not evil, which will make sense to someone else. It's a bit like Poe's law, but now with skynet.