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In some weird way, this reminds me of the 1990s scare of "Mad Cow's Disease" which was a prion disease in the cow's brain that could infect humans simply by eat
by pavlov 3y ago
In some weird way, this reminds me of the 1990s scare of "Mad Cow's Disease" which was a prion disease in the cow's brain that could infect humans simply by eating the meat.
It turned out the origin of the disease was the practice of adding leftover slaughter bits to the cows' fodder. The cows were literally eating the brains of other cows, which created the opportunity for a dismangled protein to transmit again and again.
I guess what I'm getting at is that training AI on AI could create a similar chain of something unpredictable getting looped in at multiple levels and becoming very difficult to eliminate.
- odiroot 3y agoThe origin wasn't just other cows. It was ground remains of other animals including sheep with scrapie and zoo animals imported from abroad. In any case, the cows got fed with the weirdest stuff.
- islon 3y agoWe'll soon have the "Mad AI's Disease". Though with the current level of hallucinations some LLMs have they are already half way there.
- civilitty 3y agoI vote for "Mad Minsky Disease"
- yomlica8 3y agoEven before 2022 I suspect a lot of the content they trained on was already generated by cruder forms of AI anyway so maybe it was born diseased. Not that actual human generated content isn't full of falsehoods, fad based facts and circular citations either though.
- sidewndr46 3y agoBut that wasn't a scare. It's a real thing that made people ill with no cure.
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- randomdata 3y agoMemory is feeble, but I remember it being a scare. People were genuinely worried about it; mostly because it was a real thing that potentially threatened them. This doesn't seem like a scare. If GPT and the like start outputting increasingly nonsensical outputs (which, a lot of the time, that is the case already) due to tainted inputs, oh well?
- sangnoir 3y agoQuicksand is also a real and dangerous thing, but the media is not always proportionate in reporting the risks.
- pavlov 3y agoI didn’t mean to imply it wasn’t a real thing. (I’m not a native English speaker so I’m probably missing a nuance of “scare” beyond what appears to be its literal meaning of the general public being afraid.)
- sidewndr46 3y ago"scare" in English is often used to describe a public over-reaction to a perceived threat. In the US we had the "red scare" that was an over reaction to communists in the US. A similar concept is the "satanic panic", the idea that all our children were being abducted by satanic cults.
- robert_no_robot 3y agoAlthough it sounds strange but in reinforcement learning there are approaches where actors learn on real world sensory input and then do a couple of rounds of internal simulations to refine the parameters. Then, this is tested against real worlds. I remember that this outperformed algorithms without such simulations. Also dreaming found in humans and other animals seems like this.