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Are you jacking into your car’s OBD port and messing with the engine timing? There’s a difference between using a known tool in a controlled way and giving the
by mcmcmc 2mo ago
Are you jacking into your car’s OBD port and messing with the engine timing? There’s a difference between using a known tool in a controlled way and giving the tool to a hallucinatory goblin (or overconfident intern) with the directive “do it for me”. You don’t have to know everything about the tool to know what it does, or to tell if it’s doing something it shouldn’t (like malware). What happened to the old advice given to tech neophytes, “don’t run random scripts from the internet if you don’t know what they do”?
- mcmcmc 2mo agoJust continuing the car example, because you actually do need to know enough about it to operate it and get your license. There’s no license, no insurance for using AI. Driving can be deadly, and when you do it on a public roadway there are certain requirements that have to be met as agreed upon by most governments. Same should go for AI. Do whatever you want with it on your machine, but when you let it out on the internet, you become liable for any damage you, and by extension your AI, may cause. If you feel uncomfortable approving its actions because you don’t understand them, you should either a) take the time to understand, then approve, or b) listen to your discomfort and don’t do the thing. Frankly I think that’s more accessible because you then see the decision points instead of leaving Oz behind the curtain. Much easier for a neophyte to learn from that instead of trying to reverse engineer a final output.