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What I wish I'd see more of is a fear of AI even without general intelligence. When you combine autonomy with AI, even stupid AI, you can still have bad result
by PakG1 12y ago
What I wish I'd see more of is a fear of AI even without general intelligence. When you combine autonomy with AI, even stupid AI, you can still have bad results and significant collateral damage. See Knight Capital's trading bug, Roombas that can't distinguish between dust and dog poo, and more. Yes, Google's self-driving cars may end up being more reliable and safe than average human drivers. But that would assume the engineering team has a good handle on all situations and bugs. I'm not saying hold up progress on this front. I'm only saying that people seem to be happily buying into even trivial AI advances without both eyes open.
- collyw 12y agoIs this not more of a general problem where as a software engineer you need to think of ALL possible outcomes rather than just the expected ones?