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Siri's bad, that's not the same thing as the claim (there's an Apple executive who is so worried about AI becoming super intelligent that they hold it back)
by refulgentis 3y ago
Siri's bad, that's not the same thing as the claim (there's an Apple executive who is so worried about AI becoming super intelligent that they hold it back)
- anonzzzies 3y agoI am not sure that was the intended reference; we know this behaviour now very well from neutering AIs, but I read the statement of gp as, like some of the AI neutering, but even more extreme, this Siri manager is trying to not offend anyone to such extreme that it makes a basically worthless product. Not to save the world from AI. I hope someone, in my lifetime, will make on-device LLMs which allow that type of neutering to be switched off. I don’t get offended and LLMs are getting far worse by trying to ‘protect the children’, not humanity.
- jiggawatts 3y agoThat's a fairly accurate summary of position. Apple doesn't have the right kind of "vision" for what they could achieve with Siri, and they don't have the stomach for the type of risk-taking that it would take to get there even if they did. If they did, we'd be hearing about Apple buying hundreds of thousands of GPUs, not Facebook.
- refulgentis 3y agoYes we are, and yes you are. It's right in the post. "Apparently there's a senior exec in Apple that is even more of a puritan than the "AI safety" nuts and forced Siri to be dumbed down to prevent even the slightest risk of any impropriety. With people like that in charge, innovation can't occur."
- whycome 3y ago"slightest risk of any impropriety" isn't "super intelligent" And it seemed to be a facetious comments. It's how "apparently" is used in colloquial speech nowadays.