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> No one has ever been able to demonstrate an "unsafe" AI of any kind "A man has been crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it failed to differentia
by threeseed 3y ago
> No one has ever been able to demonstrate an "unsafe" AI of any kind
"A man has been crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it failed to differentiate him from the boxes of food it was handling, reports say."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67354709 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67354709
- kspacewalk2 3y agoThis is an "AI is too dumb" danger, whereas the AI prophets of doom want us to focus on "AI is too smart" dangers.
- Davidzheng 3y agoThis sort of prediction is by its nature speculative. The argument is not--or should not--be certain doom. But rather that the uncertainty on outcomes is so large that even extreme tails has nontrivial weight
- senseiV 3y agoOh no do not use that. That was servo based, AI drones, which I think is the real "safety issue" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38199233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38199233
- threeseed 3y agoAll robots are servo based. And there is every reason to believe this is an ML classification issue since similar robots are in widespread use.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoAnd someone lost their fingers in the garbage disposal. A robot packer is not AI any more than my toilet or a landslide.
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