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This makes as much sense as saying the government's purchase of Microsoft Encarta (a digital encyclopedia product) will cause the downfall of civilization, beca

This makes as much sense as saying the government's purchase of Microsoft Encarta (a digital encyclopedia product) will cause the downfall of civilization, because Encarta doesn't tell the "full story" about your pet topic.

__MatrixMan__ 3y ago
I'd argue that a misleading source is a bit less harmful than a misleading assistant, and that AI is more like the latter.
- jrm4 3y ago
  Yes. Moreover I'd argue that literally the most dangerous thing about "AI" is that it is actually like a misleading assistant, but all too many people believe it to be a reliable "source."
lukeschlather 3y ago
ChatGPT's censorship goes beyond "not telling the full story." Someone I knew was being insulted by one of their coworkers in a foreign language, and they asked ChatGPT to translate - it refused. It's not hard to imagine that this sort of filtering could cost lives if used in a life-or-death situation as a replacement for a translator. And what's sad is ChatGPT is really the best machine translator in existence. It's not hard to imagine it making a serviceable substitute for a translator, at least in principle, if uncensored.
chaosbolt 3y ago
It's because of people like you we have 0 privacy today, "oh the government is gathering our data? well nothing to hide and they use it to fight terrorism", "oh assange is arrested? well he had it coming", "oh the government is asking twitter to censor certain political posts? who cares are you a racist?", etc. I'd say you get the idea but I doubt you would. I explained the parent's comment to you, I didn't say this specific action would cause the end of civilization. And yes while we're at it the government using Microsoft Encarta or even Google to do research is also anti democratic, you'd want the government employees to use a non censored search engine instead of just seeing the snopes fact checked articles if they're going to base their life affecting decisions on it, and if Encarta had something like "the king of Gondor is a bad person" because some microsoft employee wrote it, and the CIA based their decision on that to assassinate him, then it'd be antidemocratic as well. I'll let you stare at the finger and miss the moon telling me how Gondor isn't real.
- anotherman554 3y ago
  The parent comment you tried to explain was about A.I. Doomsday. If you think the A.I. will not cause doomsday I don't know why you are trying to "explain" it.
jrm4 3y ago
I'd definitely have that flavor of concern if the government were able to purchase the thing that beat Encarta, namely Wikipedia.

__MatrixMan__ 3y ago

I'd argue that a misleading source is a bit less harmful than a misleading assistant, and that AI is more like the latter.

jrm4 3y ago
Yes. Moreover I'd argue that literally the most dangerous thing about "AI" is that it is actually like a misleading assistant, but all too many people believe it to be a reliable "source."

lukeschlather 3y ago

ChatGPT's censorship goes beyond "not telling the full story." Someone I knew was being insulted by one of their coworkers in a foreign language, and they asked ChatGPT to translate - it refused. It's not hard to imagine that this sort of filtering could cost lives if used in a life-or-death situation as a replacement for a translator. And what's sad is ChatGPT is really the best machine translator in existence. It's not hard to imagine it making a serviceable substitute for a translator, at least in principle, if uncensored.

chaosbolt 3y ago

It's because of people like you we have 0 privacy today, "oh the government is gathering our data? well nothing to hide and they use it to fight terrorism", "oh assange is arrested? well he had it coming", "oh the government is asking twitter to censor certain political posts? who cares are you a racist?", etc. I'd say you get the idea but I doubt you would. I explained the parent's comment to you, I didn't say this specific action would cause the end of civilization. And yes while we're at it the government using Microsoft Encarta or even Google to do research is also anti democratic, you'd want the government employees to use a non censored search engine instead of just seeing the snopes fact checked articles if they're going to base their life affecting decisions on it, and if Encarta had something like "the king of Gondor is a bad person" because some microsoft employee wrote it, and the CIA based their decision on that to assassinate him, then it'd be antidemocratic as well. I'll let you stare at the finger and miss the moon telling me how Gondor isn't real.

anotherman554 3y ago
The parent comment you tried to explain was about A.I. Doomsday. If you think the A.I. will not cause doomsday I don't know why you are trying to "explain" it.

jrm4 3y ago

I'd definitely have that flavor of concern if the government were able to purchase the thing that beat Encarta, namely Wikipedia.