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I'm not talking about this philosophically so you can call it whatever you want sentience, consciousness, self-determination, or anything else. From a purely p
by slg 2y ago
I'm not talking about this philosophically so you can call it whatever you want sentience, consciousness, self-determination, or anything else. From a purely practical perspective, either the AI is giving itself its instructions or taking instructions from a person. And there are already plenty of ways a person today can cause damage with AI without the need of the AI going rogue and making its own decisions.
- sebastiennight 2y agoThis is a false dichotomy that ignores many other options than "giving itself its instructions or taking instructions from a person". Examples include "instructions unclear, turned the continent to gray goo to accomplish the goal" ; "lost track mid-completion, spun out of control" ; "generated random output with catastrophic results" ; "operator fell asleep on keyboard, accidently hit wrong key/combination" ; etc. If a system with write permissions is powerful enough, things can go wrong in many other ways than "evil person used it for evil" or "system became self-aware".
- imtringued 2y agoMeanwhile back in reality most haywire AI is the result of C programmers writing code with UB or memory safety problems.
- sebastiennight 2y agoWhenever you think the timeline couldn't be any worse, just imagine a world where our AIs were built in JavaScript.