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I’m curious as to how you would implement anything like Asimovs laws. This is because the laws would require AI to have some form of understanding. Every curren
by devjab 2y ago
I’m curious as to how you would implement anything like Asimovs laws. This is because the laws would require AI to have some form of understanding. Every current AI model we have is a probability machine, bluntly put, so they never “know” anything. Yes, yes, it’s a little more complicated than that but you get the point.
I think the various safeguards companies put on their models, are, their attempt at the three laws. The concept is sort of silly though. You have a lot of western LLMs and AIs which have safeguards build on western culture. I know some people could argue about censorship and so on all day, but if you’re not too invested in red vs blue, I think you’ll agree that current LLMs are mostly “safe” for us. Nobody forces you to put safeguards on your AI though and once models become less energy consuming (if they do), then you’re going to see an jihadGPT, because why wouldn’t you? I don’t mean to single out Islam, insure we’re going to see all sorts of horrible models in the next decade. Models which will be all to happy helping you build bombs, 3D print weapons and so on.
So even if we had thinking AI, and we were capable of building in actual safeguards, how would you enforce it on a global scale? The only thing preventing these things is the computation required to run the larger models.
- LeonardoTolstoy 2y agoTo actually implement it we would have to completely understand how the underlying model works and how to manually manipulate the structure. It might be impossible with LLMs. Not to take Asimov as gospel truth, he was just writing stories afterall not writing a treatise about how robots have to work, but in his stories at least the three laws were encoding explicitly in the structure of the robot's brain. They couldn't be circumvented (in most stories). And in those stories it was enforced in the following way: the earth banned robots. In response the three laws were created and it was proved that robots couldn't disobey them. So I guess the first step is to ban LLMs until they can prove they are safe ... Something tells be that ain't happening.
- soco 2y agoOr you have an agent system - maker-checker - where the second agent only does check first's output against the three laws. Perfect? No, but as of today much more realistic than building somehow the laws into the LLM.