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The worry I have is that the net value will become great enough that we’ll simply ignore the flaws, and probabilistic good-enough tools will become the new norm
by threecheese 2y ago
The worry I have is that the net value will become great enough that we’ll simply ignore the flaws, and probabilistic good-enough tools will become the new normal. Consider how many ads the average person wades through to scroll an Insta feed for hours - “we’ve” accepted a degraded experience in order to access some new technology that benefits us in some way.
To paraphrase comedian Mark Normand: “Capitalism!”
- ben_w 2y agoIndeed, even if I were to minimise what LLMs can do, they are still achieving what "targeted advertising" very obviously isn't.
- codr7 2y agoThey're both short sighted attempts at extracting profit while ignoring all negative consequences.
- ben_w 2y agoTo extent I agree, I think that's true for all tech since the plough, fire, axles. But I would otherwise say that most (though not all*) AI researchers seem to be deeply concerned about the set of all potential negative consequences, including mutually incompatible outcomes where we don't know which one we're even heading towards yet. * And not just Yann LeCun — though, given his position, it would still be pretty bad even if it was just him dismissing the possibility of anything going wrong
- codr7 2y agoScary thought, difficult to unthink. I'm afraid you might be right. We've accepted a lot of crap lately just to get what we think we want, convenience is a killer.