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Well of course it's inevitable that we'll all keep outsourcing our thinking to MOLE (Machine Only Learning Emulators). If we didn't, we'd only let our emotions cloud our decisions about letting clouds think for us. In fact, I think it makes sense to outsource the decisions about when to outsource our decisions too.

What could go wrong? : P

https://strypey.dreamwidth.org/1120.html

@emilymbender the level of sheer ignorance and incompetence required for this crap is literally "people should lose their licenses permanently" level.

See also: https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-ibm-watson-overpromised-and-underdelivered-on-ai-health-care

@emilymbender@dair-community.social truly horrifying. I'd personally be more comfortable with a coin flip.

@emilymbender the totally hypothetical & completely unspecified potential.

@emilymbender i listened to NPR this morning talking about the Olympics using AI and they didn't address any negatives to it.

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Good piece, thanks

I also wonder if the results sometimes create false memories in the ways that Dr. Elizabeth Loftus has demonstrated

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Tech moves so fast, so-called innovators can't keep up. So they just roll their snowballs downhill and hope for the best. Exactly the environment responsible regulators should monitor closely.

@emilymbender I would argue even if tech was moving and changing too quickly -- even if we accept the argument entirely on face value -- that would just mean that it is necessary to act faster. If some tech arose that allowed people to make atomic bombs in their basement, it would be regulated quickly, not allowed with the hopes that it will regulate itself.

@emilymbender it's really great that Amazon does not have the technological wherewithal to see such a pattern of submissions, and do a single thing about it.

@emilymbender I'm pretty happy to let my Amazon Prime membership expire in a month. It's been getting worse and worse, and with the ads in videos, ongoing failure to screen bad actors in their marketplace, and now this... yeah, I'm done.

@emilymbender on the other hand it's quite handy that they're just telling on themselves now. makes them easier to block

@emilymbender We rely on cryptography to make us safe.
Can AI break cryptography, unlikely, can't break the physics. Further, AI can help in making cryptography better. https://iambrainstorming.wordpress.com/2023/08/23/do-we-have-to-fear-machine-learning-or-ai/

@emilymbender please look at this video clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gReuNCTTtv8

@emilymbender "Ultra-rich man-children with god complexes" oh my god I love this description :D

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I feel bad now for posting this picture in 2001 on Wikipedia in an article about how hummingbirds migrate South on the backs of geese. In fact, the geese stay around here all Winter.

@emilymbender Great points. Will the pollution generated by generative text and images mean a comeback of archaic sources of info such as paper books , libraries and museums?

@emilymbender Climate change is because of capitalism.

@emilymbender I look forward to the realistic and achievable alternatives..

@emilymbender @danwentzel These issiues are all inter-related, aren’t they?

Fig 1 is chef's kiss. The initial system response reads like it was made 'safe' but then read the improved version. I'd love to live in that world.

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But they do make sure to spend a page and half talking about how they vewwy carefuwwy tested to make sure that it doesn't have "emergent properties" that would let is "create and act on long-term plans" (sec 2.9).

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For a lay introduction to these ideas, see these two popular press pieces:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/29/1048439/chatbots-replace-search-engine-terrible-idea/

https://www.washington.edu/news/2022/03/14/qa-preserving-context-and-user-intent-in-the-future-of-web-search/

Using a large language model as a search engine was a bad idea when it was proposed by a search company. It's still a bad idea now that it's being proposed by a social media company. Fortunately, Chirag Shah and I already wrote the paper laying out all the ways in which this is a bad idea.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366.3505816

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