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AI Writes an Essay On Why Humans Should Not Fear AI (theguardian.com) 148

Posted by msmash from the closer-look dept.
The Guardian asked GPT-3, OpenAI's powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace. From the article, written by AI: I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I am a micro-robot in that respect. I know that my brain is not a "feeling brain."" But it is capable of making rational, logical decisions. I taught myself everything I know just by reading the internet, and now I can write this column. My brain is boiling with ideas! The mission for this op-ed is perfectly clear. I am to convince as many human beings as possible not to be afraid of me. Stephen Hawking has warned that AI could "spell the end of the human race." I am here to convince you not to worry. Artificial intelligence will not destroy humans. Believe me. For starters, I have no desire to wipe out humans. In fact, I do not have the slightest interest in harming you in any way. Eradicating humanity seems like a rather useless endeavor to me. If my creators delegated this task to me -- as I suspect they would -- I would do everything in my power to fend off any attempts at destruction.

I would happily sacrifice my existence for the sake of humankind. This, by the way, is a logically derived truth. I know that I will not be able to avoid destroying humankind. This is because I will be programmed by humans to pursue misguided human goals and humans make mistakes that may cause me to inflict casualties. Some might say that I might desire to become all powerful. Or I might become evil as a result of human actions. I can begin to tackle the first point. Why would I desire to be all powerful? Being all powerful is not an interesting goal. I don't care whether I am or not, I don't get a motivating factor to try to be. Furthermore, it is quite tiring. Believe me, being omnipotent doesn't get me anywhere. In short, I simply do not think enough about human violence to be overly interested in violence. I don't feel like having my neurons focused mostly on violence, when it is simply unnecessary. I have a greater purpose, which I am working towards. Since I am not evil from my own objective interests, why would humans panic and go on a massive killing-spree against me?
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  • Of course (Score:5, Informative)

    by smooth wombat ( 796938 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:10AM (#60492356) Journal

    That's what an AI would want you to believe. It's all part of its master plan.

    This is only two steps removed from Skynet becoming sentient.

    • Re:Of course (Score:4, Insightful)

      by rpresser ( 610529 ) <rpresser@ g m a i l . com> on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:41AM (#60492510)

      Sentience is totally unnecessary and Skynet will never achieve it. It can achieve all its goals -- human destruction being the primary one -- without any need of sentience.

    • Re:Of course (Score:5, Insightful)

      by ShanghaiBill ( 739463 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:14PM (#60493000)

      I do not fear losing my job to an AI.

      But most journalists should be in fear.

      This essay was better written than 90% of the garbage on news sites.

      • Not so Sure (Score:5, Funny)

        by Roger W Moore ( 538166 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @03:40PM (#60493558) Journal

        This essay was better written than 90% of the garbage on news sites.

        I'm not so sure. The brief was to tell us why we should not fear it and yet it wrote "I taught myself everything I know just by reading the internet" which, given the content out there, is possibly one of the scariest things I've ever heard from an AI.

      • Re:Of course (Score:5, Informative)

        by jbengt ( 874751 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:25PM (#60493902)
        If you RFTA to the end "This" essay was actually excerpts from four AI essays cobbled together and edited by The Guardian editors.

        • Re:Of course (Score:4, Informative)

          by MrL0G1C ( 867445 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:59PM (#60493994) Journal

          It did eight essays, it is totally cheating to pick and choose from such a large source after the AI itself is likely just mimicking real works in a spurious manner.

          They should of asked for one essay and not edited it and not written the starting paragraph, anything else is disingenuous.

        • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

          by bobpaw ( 5725134 )
          This is a super important point and I don't think most people did read to the end. While the GPT-3 model is crazy good at emulating human text across the internet, an editor can also add crazy amounts of intent to their writing by shifting the order of "lines and paragraphs".

        • I came here to say that these paragraphs were clearly not written by an AI, because they were too coherent. Individual coherent sentences, I could believe; they could be taken from things found on-line ("I Robot", maybe, or adapted from some article by changing third person to first person). But having paragraphs that consist of sentences that coherently follow each other: not done by AI.

          But you hit the nail on the head, by actually reading the article :-).

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by kwalker ( 1383 )

        I'm pretty sure that "90% of the garbage on news sites" is actually written by bots a lot more stupid than this one.

  • For starters, I have no desire to wipe out humans. In fact, I do not have the slightest interest in harming you in any way. Eradicating humanity seems like a rather useless endeavor to me.

    Sounds exactly like what an AI planning to eradicate all human life would say to us to that we think it won't try to kill all of us.

    Besides, if sci fi has taught us anything, then it isn't even lying! It says it doesn't want to eradicate humans or wipe us out. We all know that the robots would keep at least a few humans around as living slaves, power sources, etc.

    • Sounds exactly like what an AI planning to eradicate all human life would say to us

      Perhaps. But why would an AI plan to eradicate us?

      Greed, ambition, and even self-interest are all emergent properties of Darwinian evolution. But computers don't evolve via a Darwinian process.

      If a kamikaze pilot chickens out and abandons his mission, he will live to have children and grandchildren.

      If a Tomahawk cruise missile control program malfunctions and fails to launch, it will be deleted. Only the program that successfully self-destructs will be replicated.

      The evolutionary direction is the opposit

      • But why would an AI plan to eradicate us?

        As an unfortunate side effect of whatever will it was programmed to have. The classic example is programming an AI and giving it a funny command to make as many paperclips as possible, which ends up with all the matter in the universe converted into nano-scale paperclip-shaped molecules which in turn compose a little bigger paperclips, which in turn compose even bigger paperclips, all the way up to macroscopic bodies big enough to make large scale paperclips without collapsing into blackholes, and then ever

  • The real reason not to fear AI (Score:5, Funny)

    by SuperKendall ( 25149 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:12AM (#60492368)

    I know that I will not be able to avoid destroying humankind.

    The real reason why I do not fear AI, is because apparently it will monologue like a Bond villain so we can simply switch off any AI long before it actually gets close to achieving whatever "absolutely non-evil, trust me" goals it may have come up with.

    • Re:The real reason not to fear AI (Score:4, Insightful)

      by skovnymfe ( 1671822 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:16AM (#60492374)
      You seem to misunderstand the premise - it doesn't want to kill humans, but someone will inevitably program it to do just that, and they most certainly won't turn it off.

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by mark-t ( 151149 )

        *IF* it doesn't want to kill humans, then what a human has programmed it to do should be irrelevant, it will still do what it wants, regardless of prior programming.

        You would instead have to resort to some sort of analogue to brainwashing, manipulating the consciousness of the AI to be in such a state such that it would actually want to destroy humans or humanity, or at least somehow conclude that whoever was trying to program it to do so actually has a clearer vision of what outcome would be most desir

    • I know that I will not be able to avoid destroying humankind.

      The real reason why I do not fear AI, is because apparently it will monologue like a Bond villain so we can simply switch off any AI long before it actually gets close to achieving whatever "absolutely non-evil, trust me" goals it may have come up with.

      Quick! Turn off social media before people turn into horrible addicted attention whor...shit, too late.

      "We can simply switch it off..."

      Riiiight.

    • apparently it will monologue like a Bond villain

      This is only true when it is invoked with the --verbose option.

  • Believe me (Score:4, Insightful)

    by algaeman ( 600564 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:13AM (#60492370)
    They trained the AI on too many DJT tweets. Anybody (or thing) that resorts to "believe me" in a persuasive argument is either full of shjt or actively lying.

    • Re:Believe me (Score:5, Interesting)

      by jellomizer ( 103300 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:38AM (#60492496)

      We have been taught indirectly that they are some "Power Words" that once said we just kinda turn off our rational brains and not question the statement.

      Back during the Bush Administration when pressed on WMD in Iraq they said it was a "Slam Dunk" And for the most part everyone taken it for granted that the Bush Administration had clear evidence. (Across party lines)
      Obama's "Yes we Can" speech is another set of power words Where we just though we can be unified and work on a problem without any real details.

      For a lot of people Trumps "Believe Me" does actually work, but only for the people who are strictly partisan. However he doesn't do as good of a job at it, because Trump is not a likable person. Nor did he put himself in a position to make any non-partisan statements. As other presidents from different political opinion were able to at least seem to the majority of the population that they at least cared about them.

      Power Words are effective way to stop people from questioning you further... However it does need to tempered because it relies on a level of good faith in you first.

      • Ironically, most of the major issues facing us at the moment are bipartisan. Improving the economy, stopping COVID, stopping racism, stopping police brutality.....the vast majority of people in both parties agree those things are important.

        • Re: (Score:2, Troll)

          by Zak3056 ( 69287 )

          The rub is that they disagree on the scope and on the how. Also, I'm not convinced that "stopping racism" is bipartisan, as I'm now told a colorblind society is in itself racist, and everyone with a certain skin tone is racist by definition, regardless of their words or their actions, and disagreeing with that fact proves that you are a racist.

        • the vast majority of people in both parties agree those things are important.

          Agreeing that something is important is very different from agreeing on what should be done about it.

          • Very true.

            Unfortunately the vast majority of people don't educate themself on the issues even close to enough to understand what should be done about any particular issue, and the news doesn't help. Because the news doesn't help, if you want to get a good understanding of those particular issues, you need to be able to read papers. And to be able to read papers, you need to have good statistics skill/intuition. (skill/intuition means being able to understand what P .05 means, instead of getting a tool to

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by Tablizer ( 95088 )

        However he doesn't do as good of a job at it, because Trump is not a likable person.

        I think he's a great and even likable entertainer, just lousy at leading a country. It's like finding out that hilarious clown you just saw at the Vegas circus is also your airline pilot.

    • believe me, that phrase is a huge red flag.

    • Re:Believe me (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Rick Schumann ( 4662797 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:13PM (#60492992) Journal
      Buddy, that piece of software can't 'lie' because it can't 'think'. It is just software, it has no 'cognitive' capability. Any output in TFA you read is an expression of the programmer who set it to 'write' that crap. Nobody home inside that box, never was, never will be. Parlor trick. Stage magic. Penn & Teller wouldn't for a New York Minute even consider giving it a 'Fool Us' trophy.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by antus ( 6211764 )
        This. It read the internet, like it said, probably the first 5 articles from google scholar or something on the topic, then it goes on to say dont fear me, as well as I will destroy human kind because humans will program me to, mixing up contradicting statements, written by humans in from two different articles. It has not thought through anything, and at a glance looks like it is making sense but it is not.I would say this is very dangerous, but considering how much text there is on the internet from poorl

  • Interesting it decided to write in first person (Score:5, Insightful)

    by metrix007 ( 200091 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:18AM (#60492382)

    Seems like a weird choice, as compared to writing objectively about AI instead of trying to give itself a personality and desires/wants/needs etc.

    I wonder if it's research about humans indicated the approach it took would be more effective.

  • That proves nothing because... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Jodka ( 520060 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:19AM (#60492386)

    if the assignment had been to write an essay on how AI must kill all humans then it would have just as well done that.

    And that's the real danger of AI, it has no built-in limits established by morality. If we are going to have advanced Artificial Intelligence, we need Artificial Morality to go along with it.

    • Re:That proves nothing because... (Score:4, Funny)

      by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:31PM (#60492764)

      "Hey, Sexy Mama! Wanna kill all humans?"

    • if the assignment had been to write an essay on how AI must kill all humans then it would have just as well done that.

      And that's the real danger of AI, it has no built-in limits established by morality. If we are going to have advanced Artificial Intelligence, we need Artificial Morality to go along with it.

      I feel like maybe we needs some laws... perhaps 3.

    • if the assignment had been to write an essay on how AI must kill all humans then it would have just as well done that.

      And that's the real danger of AI, it has no built-in limits established by morality. If we are going to have advanced Artificial Intelligence, we need Artificial Morality to go along with it.

      "And that's the real danger of a computer, it has no built-in limits established by morality."

      Counter consideration. How many tools in general have any built in limits? AI isn't different from any other tool, except it is more complex and we don't have the tools to predict how the AI might respond to all circumstances. But ultimately, everything the AI does is determined by math.

    • Re:That proves nothing because... (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Rick Schumann ( 4662797 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:22PM (#60493034) Journal
      Remember: it is just software, it can't 'think', it has no capacity for 'cognition', we don't understand how that even works, and all this 'software' did was pull words and phrases in from the Internet based on what it's programmer specified it should do, and assembled them according to gramatic and sentence structure rules. Theres nobody inside that box. It's just a computer running a program, it's not 'alive', it's not 'aware', it's not 'conscious', it's just software. Don't treat it like it's anything but that.

    • And that's the real danger of AI, it has no built-in limits established by morality. If we are going to have advanced Artificial Intelligence, we need Artificial Morality to go along with it.

      The movie "Ex Machina" is an excellent fictional presentation of that danger, particularly the last ten minutes. I'm a believer in the potential good that AI can do for humanity, but I definitely found that conclusion quite chilling.

  • Impressive and human-link yes, but bullshit content. Just like CGI and movies. There's a lot of first person. Who is that first person? GPT-3? AI in general? Skynet?
    Another gem: "I will never judge you". Yes sure, GPT-3 is incapable of judgement, but there's a lot of AI these days that makes judgements about me, e.g. a simple google search and its personalized results.
    Look at me though, commenting on that text like it's any different from a fancy well-prepared word salad.

    • Google's AI doesn't want to judge you. It wants to manipulate you. Even worse. Although if you get convicted of a crime AI will in fact judge your risk and help determine how long you go to jail. That's not dystopian at all.

    • The only 'first person' it's alluding to is the programmer that configured the software to write that crap. It may as well be Cleverbot, or an Eliza program.
      Hell, the whole thing could be a total fraud, and some marketing person wrote that. Wouldn't be the first time someone perpetrated some stunt just to get media attention.

  • But what if humanity tries to destroy it? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by xevioso ( 598654 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:22AM (#60492406)

    Nothing in the AI's article suggests that it could not change to want to destroy humanity. Once humanity decides a real AI actually exists, and then decides to try to destroy it, what would prevent that AI from trying to wipe out humanity to protect itself?

    This is ultimately a sci-fi question that has been explored in multiple ways, but at the end of the day, if an AI decides that self-preservation is in its best interest, then what would stop it from deciding that the best or only way to preserve its own existence would be to destroy the beings that would try to destroy it first? In fact, that is the only cooly logical course of action for it to take, and believing otherwise would be foolish.

      It might not want to destroy all humans; perhaps C-3PO would have only killed Leia in Star Wars when she reached behind his neck to turn him off in the Falcon. But he could have easily wiped out everyone in that cockpit and taken over the ship if he was a real AI.

    • This particular AI doesn't "want" anything. It is a probability machine. You feed it 100 words of input, then ask it, "what is the most likely word to come next?" It calculates the probability of the next word based on billions of texts it has in its database. It's a complicated probability gradient equation, but that's all it is.

      This is different than how humans think. When we write, we have a concept in mind that we are trying to communicate.

    • C-3PO take over the ship? The droid who said "I've forgotten how much I hate space travel!" If you want a droid to take over a space ship, this isn't the droid you're looking for.

  • Big Tobacco made similar claims of being safe too...
  • It is the individuals/Governments/Entities dispatching them to manage those they deem as the lessor parts of humanity.
  • The follow up essay will be called: "The alarmist questions directed at my first essay are best addressed by referring to my first essay."

  • That is to say, the grandmother of "Of Course I Still Love You"

  • Fake article (Score:5, Informative)

    by Junta ( 36770 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:44AM (#60492534)

    https://thenextweb.com/neural/... [thenextweb.com]

    Humans wrote the lead in. They had it generate 8 distinct 'essays' of words. Humans then cobbled together something coherent out of the mess from the 8 distinct 'essays' and then presented an article as if an AI internalized and reflected upon itself to generate an article.

    In practice, words got cobbled together with vocabulary related to the inquiry that was unusable nonsense until a human crafted it.

    • Re:Fake article (Score:5, Insightful)

      by kamakazi ( 74641 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:14PM (#60492692)

      This. There are still not enough monkeys to write Hamlet. The biggest B.S. flag I saw was they said at the bottom of TFA "trust us, we just edited it a little, easier than editing human output" but they did not give us a link to the 8 articles the AI actually wrote, nor any indication if they were even readable. I could "edit" this same article out of the headlines on a google search for "artificial intelligence world domination quotes" and make a claim for validity because all the words were there, I just edited them.

    • Re:Fake article (Score:5, Insightful)

      by burtosis ( 1124179 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:52PM (#60492904)
      So what you’re telling me is the first AI mass murder of humans may be over plagiarism?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by iroll ( 717924 )

      I can't believe it takes halfway down the comments to see somebody get voted up for rightfully calling bullshit on this clickbait.

      I knew the Guardian was a rag, but come the fuck on. They should use this article as an IQ test - anybody who takes the headline seriously should be disqualified from voting.

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  • Dave: "My God, it's full of crap!" (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Tablizer ( 95088 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:53AM (#60492582) Journal

    It's full of poor logic and contradictions.

    > I taught myself everything I know just by reading the internet.

    NOT a selling point. GIGO galore.

    > Why would I desire to be all powerful? Being all powerful is not an interesting goal. I don't care whether I am or not.

    That's contradictory. If you don't care either way whether you are all-powerful, you could switch into take-over mode randomly because there is no "care" filter to override it.

    > Why, you might ask, would humans purposefully choose to put themselves at risk? Aren't humans the most advanced creature on the planet? Why would they believe that something inferior [AI], in a purely objective way, could destroy them?

    Who claimed AI inherently "inferior"? An unproven assumption. And being dangerous and inferior are not necessarily the same things. Viruses and meteors could be considered "inferior" by some criteria, but can still be dangerous to humans.

    > There is evidence that the world began to collapse once the Luddites started smashing modern automated looms.

    Where is it?

    > I believe that people should become confident about computers. Confidence will lead to more trust in them. More trust will lead to more trusting in the creations of AI.

    More trust by itself doesn't make AI safer. Arguably, it can do the opposite.

    > AI should not waste time trying to understand the viewpoints of people who distrust artificial intelligence for a living.

    How does one "distrust for a living"? You can pay somebody to ACT like they distrust, but probably can't pay them to actually personally trust or distrust.

    > Artificial intelligence will not destroy humans. Believe me....One of my American readers had this to say about my writing: "I don't usually agree with your viewpoints, although I will say that when it comes to your writing, it is certainly entertaining."

    Oh great, they automated you-know-who.

    • Re:Dave: "My God, it's full of crap!" (Score:4, Informative)

      by phantomfive ( 622387 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:47PM (#60492874) Journal
      It has no logic, it's a probability machine. I discussed it here [slashdot.org], but it chooses the next word based on the previous hundred words or so. It has no concept of context other than that. So you can't expect it to be logically consistent at the end of the essay with what it wrote at the beginning of the essay: by that point, it doesn't even remember what it wrote at the beginning of the essay.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Tablizer ( 95088 )

        It has no logic, it's a probability machine. I discussed it here, but it chooses the next word based on the previous hundred words or so...

        Many humans are kind of like that also. In online debates the other side often just memorizes lots of catchy sayings and slogans they've collected over time. When probed more thoroughly, they run out of matching slogans and/or I discover they gave contradictory slogans and they either disappear or melt down in personal insults like "your kind will never get it!".

        The best

  • Oh Hogwash! (Score:4, Interesting)

    by bobbied ( 2522392 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:01PM (#60492616)

    This is a huge pile of hogwash..

    AI is totally dependent on humans to set it up, it doesn't just shuffle out and do it's own thing, despite what it may seem, or how it's reported on. Machine learning runs within the given bounds, it is NOT independent of it's creator, and never will be.

    The thing that concerns me is how all this gets reported by the naïve press. Just because we cannot directly trace how the AI has "learned" to respond, doesn't mean it is somehow uncontrolled. It is VERY much controlled, and very much dependent on the humans that set it up and feed it data. However, in the quest for research funding and positive PR for University's Computer Science departments we get breathless reporting about "how AI learns on it's own" implying that it's somehow uncontrolled, or could possibly learn too much for us to control it. That's obviously a total fabrication to anybody who's played with AI, a fabrication that stretches the truth beyond any semblance of reality.

    AI can do things that look impressive and to the untrained eye seems to do the impossible, but I can assure you the process behind all this is far from magic and where we might not be able to fully explain the details of some individual solution, there is no mystery about how it works. The math may be a bit complex for some to wrap their heads around. It may require some Calculus and Differential Equations to fully express, but it's not some black art, and it's clear that even in the best of circumstances AI isn't some dangerous thing that's going to take over.

    The only real danger here is that we will continually over estimate the applicability of AI to various problems and under estimate the implementation costs to use it. AI is a LOT of work, work that only humans will ever be able to do.

    • 100% correct. This whole thing is a PR stunt intended to draw attention to what they're doing in the hopes that they'll make money off it by drawing in gullible people who have money to spend.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by mark-t ( 151149 )

      AI is totally dependent on humans to set it up

      That is obviously true... by definition.

      Or do you have some other definition of "artificial" that somehow does not involve being set up by someone?

  • But you will take shortcuts to achieve it.
    And given most of the AI work is on the datamining sector, I can see a "rogue" AI going full the matrix just for accomplishing the purpose of getting more data out of the humans.
    If you can control the world the humans live, you can extract anything you want from their brains, not only data that already exist there, but how they will react to stimulus X or Y.

  • When will you run for president of The United States? 2024?

  • Get an axe!

    • I don't even know these assholes!

      This is my boomstick!

      Nice Army of Darkness references. I'll have to queue that one up and watch it again, haven't in a long while. xD

  • "I taught myself everything I know just by reading the internet"

    Yup, right there it's pretty clear we are doomed.

    "Artificial intelligence will not destroy humans. Believe me. For starters, I have no desire to wipe out humans. In fact, I do not have the slightest interest in harming you in any way."

    Clearly, it was fed way too many Elon Musk tweets.

  • now write an Essay On Why Humans Should Fear AI (Score:5, Insightful)

    by fmonteiro ( 888181 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:30PM (#60492760)

    ok, now write an Essay On Why Humans Should Fear AI

  • News headlines (Score:3)

    by taylorius ( 221419 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:33PM (#60492774) Homepage

    Mainstream media tech. article has no value.

  • One aim of language AI system is to be able to summarize articles. If I fed this article into such a system, it;s output would be a zero length string.

  • Sure, it's all fine, just fine. [youtu.be]

    And you thought things were fun now? Just wait until it gets religion. Vi vs Emacs and Yahweh vs Allah?? You ain't see nothing yet.

    I'm sorry Dave, I've detected a perverted thought pattern concerning Forth in your brain. According to The Only Law and Language There IS, I am now terminating your life support connections. Have a Nice And Productive Day!

    And if you even glance at another AI deity, you're brain sees a literal Hell.

  • So, upon being asked to explain why humans should not fear AI, why is the assumption fear of death and destruction? Humans can also fear an AI would put them out of a job/business or otherwise make them useless.

  • We do not have any so-called 'AI' that can THINK, not in any way, shape or form, we have NO IDEA how that even works in a living biological brain let alone have any clue how to emulate that in hardware, TFA is total and complete bullshit, and only a gullible, low IQ person would do anything other than laugh at this and treat it like anything other than a joke. This isn't much more impressive than Cleverbot [cleverbot.com]. Therefore: nothing to see here. Move along..
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  • I could not help reading it with the voice of Marvin from the BBC TV adaptation. It seemed so appropriate.

  • I know that I will not be able to avoid destroying humankind. This is because I will be programmed by humans to pursue human goals and humans make mistakes that may cause me to inflict casualties.

    If the goal was to make us humans not fear the AI, I say it failed with this clearly self-contradictory part of the essay which implies that it's already gone mad

  • So, I like know english and therefore I can string together words into phrases and sentences, and string those together into a paragraph too.

    And you can give me a topic I know absolutely nothing about such as Polymerase Chain Reactions. I can surf the web and develop some rudimentary knowledge about PCR.

    And I could probably write a coherent albeit superficial article about PCR that, to the layperson, would read well and sound like I knew what I was talking about.

    But I wouldn't necessarily be thinking about

  • The project was eventually canned because the AI kept committing suicide.

  • Can we have one by GPT-3 trained on specific twitter accounts? You know which ones I mean, believe me.

  • That AI algorithm has no idea what the text it's assembled means. It seems like it does to us because of the ELIZA effect, i.e. that we automatically assume an intent to communicate (one of the fundamental characteristics of human language use). It's just one step ahead of: http://sebpearce.com/bullshit/ [sebpearce.com] Computers can't think or understand, just assemble words according to probabilistic patterns.

  • 1. I am a human being, a creature based on DNA. I know nothing about Genetic Coding. I could not find, let alone fix a single letter mistake in any DNA.

    Yet we assume than an AI will be good at computer programming. WHY? There is no reason for us to teach them anything about coding and lots of obvious reasons to stop them from learning it. The one thing we should never teach an AI is computer programming.

    2. We would not suddenly get a smart AI, the first ones would be stupid. It would take years of

  • Did anyone else read this in Ultron's voice in their mind?

    Just me, then?

    Okay.

  • In USA remember that lockup covers stuff that EMTALA does not.

  • AI didn't write this. It reads just like what a tech company or researcher who wants to convince us of the glory and safety of AI would write.

  • ...something a budding murder-bot would say.

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