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I am starting to resent these things more and more - the old phrase "you were so concentrated on wondering if you could, you didn't think about if you should".

I am starting to resent these things more and more - the old phrase "you were so concentrated on wondering if you could, you didn't think about if you should". Feels like there are loads of researcher's trying to replace people with AI in every possible avenue. While I am sure it is a technical feat etc, I am not enjoying how this is going. I hope these researchers are able to sleep at night. They are already causing pain for people's livelihoods and yet they just keep on going trying to find more ways for more people to get sacked.

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idiotsecant 3y ago
Technology and science are not and cannot be good or bad. They are amoral. The brains deciding what to do with it carry the moral burden. The answer is never to understand less about reality.
- Engineering-MD 3y ago
  Sure, but not all tools have an equal ethical space in which to be utilised. A tool made specifically for torture (say a device to painfully remove fingernails) will tend to be used for morally bad things (using a reasonable assumption that torture is bad). Could it save the planet by torturing a specific person in a specific situation? Could it help remove that deadly fingernail from a patient? Sure, but its space for evil acts is much broader, and very different to say a ventilator, or an Xbox. The reality is that the potential of science and technology to achieve things seen as good and bad does differ, and the magnitude of that power.
ipsum2 3y ago
Video games are used in AI as a simulator for the real world, literally no one's job is being taken.
strikelaserclaw 3y ago
When technology advances we should advance the way our society is set up (which a lot of people forget is possible). We shouldn't try limit researchers from trying to come up with new stuff because all of science is related in some way, these advancements related to ML might help cure cancer in the future.
- AceFromOttawa 3y ago
  Most of the current advancements in AI research evolved out of teaching AI how to play games. Gameplay and AI research are very closely intertwined, this research project only helps further push the capabilities of AI. Another small step on a very long march ahead.

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idiotsecant 3y ago

Technology and science are not and cannot be good or bad. They are amoral. The brains deciding what to do with it carry the moral burden. The answer is never to understand less about reality.

Engineering-MD 3y ago
Sure, but not all tools have an equal ethical space in which to be utilised. A tool made specifically for torture (say a device to painfully remove fingernails) will tend to be used for morally bad things (using a reasonable assumption that torture is bad). Could it save the planet by torturing a specific person in a specific situation? Could it help remove that deadly fingernail from a patient? Sure, but its space for evil acts is much broader, and very different to say a ventilator, or an Xbox. The reality is that the potential of science and technology to achieve things seen as good and bad does differ, and the magnitude of that power.

ipsum2 3y ago

Video games are used in AI as a simulator for the real world, literally no one's job is being taken.

strikelaserclaw 3y ago

When technology advances we should advance the way our society is set up (which a lot of people forget is possible). We shouldn't try limit researchers from trying to come up with new stuff because all of science is related in some way, these advancements related to ML might help cure cancer in the future.

AceFromOttawa 3y ago
Most of the current advancements in AI research evolved out of teaching AI how to play games. Gameplay and AI research are very closely intertwined, this research project only helps further push the capabilities of AI. Another small step on a very long march ahead.