▲ 441 ▼ Google’s Search AI Says Slavery Was Good, Actually (futurism.com) submitted 3 years ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world 167 comments fedilink hide all child comments Google's AI-driven Search Generative Experience have been generating results that are downright weird and evil, ie slavery's positives.
[+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 48 points 3 years ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 23 points 3 years ago (2 children) Your and @WoodenBleachers's idea of "effective" is very subjective though. For example Germany was far worse off during the last few weeks of Hitler's term than it was before him. He left it in ruins and under the control of multiple other powers. To me, that's not effective leadership, it's a complete car crash. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 17 points 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago* (2 children) He was able to convince the majority that his way of thinking was the right way to go and deployed a plan to that effect So, you're basically saying an effective leader is someone who can convince people to go along with them for a sustained period. Jim Jones was an effective leader by that metric. Which I would dispute. So was the guy who led the Donner Party to their deaths. This is why I see a problem with this. You and I are able to discuss this and work out what each other means. But in a world where people are time-poor and critical thinking takes time, errors based on fundamental misunderstandings of consensual meanings can flourish. And the speed and sheer amount of global digital communication means that they can be multiplied and compounded in ways that individual fact checkers will not be able to challenge sucessfully. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ScrimbloBimblo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 years ago (1 child) I mean Jim Jones was pretty damn effective at convincing a large group of people to commit mass suicide. If he'd been ineffective, he'd have been one of the thousands of failed cult leaders you and I have never heard of. Similarly, if Hitler had been ineffective, it wouldn't have takes the combined forces of half the world to fight him. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago* This is true, I guess the difference in the Jim Jones scenario is whether you define effective leadership as being able to get your plan carried out (even if that plan is killing everyone you lead) or whether you define it as achieving good outcomes for those you lead. Hitler didn't do either of those things in the end so I still don't rate him, but I can see why you would if you just look at the first part of his reign. AI often produces unintended consequences based on its interpretations - there's a great TED talk on some of these - and I think with the LLMs we have way more variables in our inputs than we have time to define them. That will probably change as they get refined. permalink fedilink source parent [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social -7 points 3 years ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 6 points 3 years ago* (2 children) Huh? Yikes this feels like being back on reddit. No I am not trying to "fight" you or "straw man" you at all!!! I thought we were having a pleasant and civilized conversation about the merits and pitfalls of AI , using our different ideas about the word "effective" as an example. Unfortunately I didn't see that you're handing me downvotes until just now, so I didn't pick up on your vibe. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) I’ll fight you permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child) "What do you think, darlin, should I hate him?" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 1 point 3 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=trgKeCFmi3M Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social -20 points 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] papalonian@kbin.social 14 points 3 years ago What the hell are you on dude? Someone literally is just trying to have a discussion with you on a public forum you posted in, how are they trying to drag you ham fisted in to a debate by simply replying to your comment? Someone's gwumpy.. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Your anger has decorated my poop break with laughter random internet person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago You can do it. Best of luck on your journey friend. permalink fedilink source parent [–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world -2 points 3 years ago (4 children) If AI can only think at surface level, we are beyond doomed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] ninjakitty7@kbin.social 15 points 3 years ago (1 child) Honestly AI doesn’t think much at all. They’re scary clever in some ways but also literally don’t know what anything is or means. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago* They don't think. They think 0% of the time. It's algorithms, randomness, probability, and statistics through and through. They don't think any more than a calculator thinks. permalink fedilink source parent [–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 3 years ago LLMs don't think. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Bluskale@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago LLMs aren’t AI… they’re essentially a glorified autocorrect system that are stuck at the surface level. permalink fedilink source parent [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago* We should always fact check things we believe we know and seek additional information on topics we are researching. Yay yet another person saying that primary information sources should be verified using secondary information sources. Yes, you're right it's great actually that in your vision of the future everyone will have to be a part time research assistant to have any chance of knowing anything about anything because all of their sources will be rubbish. And that's definitely a thing people will do, instead of just leaning into occultism, conspiratorial thinking, and group think in alternating shifts. All I have to say is thank fuck Wikipedia exists. permalink fedilink source parent [–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Nobody said we were relying on that. We'll all keep searching. We'll all keep hoping it will bring abundance, as opposed to every other tech revolution since farming. I can only think at the surface level though. I definitely have not been in the science field for 25 years. permalink fedilink source parent [–] oo1@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago ai ain't going to be much "worse" or "better" than humans. but re earlier points I don't think things should be judged on a timescale of a few years. relevant timescales are more like generation(s) to me. permalink fedilink source parent [–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) If you ask it for evidence Hitler was effective, it will give you what you asked for. It is incapable of looking at the bigger picture. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] andallthat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) it doesn't even look at the smaller picture. LLMs build sentences by looking at what's most statistically likely to follow the part of the sentence they have already built (based on the most frequent combinations from their training data). If they start with "Hitler was effective" LLMs don't make any ethical consideration at all.... they just look at how to end that sentence in the most statistically convincing imitation of human language that they can. Guardrails are built by painstakingly trying to add ad-hoc rules not to generate "combinations that contain these words" or "sequences of words like these". They are easily bypassed by asking for the same concept in another way that wasn't explicitly disabled, because there's no "concept" to LLMs, just combination of words. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yes, but in many defense the "smaller picture" I was alluding to was more like the 4096 tokens of context ChatGPT uses. I didn't mean to suggest it was doing anything we'd recognize as forming an opinion. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] andallthat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Sorry if I gave you the impression that I was trying to disagree with you. I just piggy-backed on your comment and sort of continued it. If you read them one after the other as one comment (at least iny head), they seem to flow well permalink fedilink source parent
[–] livus@kbin.social 23 points 3 years ago (2 children) Your and @WoodenBleachers's idea of "effective" is very subjective though. For example Germany was far worse off during the last few weeks of Hitler's term than it was before him. He left it in ruins and under the control of multiple other powers. To me, that's not effective leadership, it's a complete car crash. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 17 points 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago* (2 children) He was able to convince the majority that his way of thinking was the right way to go and deployed a plan to that effect So, you're basically saying an effective leader is someone who can convince people to go along with them for a sustained period. Jim Jones was an effective leader by that metric. Which I would dispute. So was the guy who led the Donner Party to their deaths. This is why I see a problem with this. You and I are able to discuss this and work out what each other means. But in a world where people are time-poor and critical thinking takes time, errors based on fundamental misunderstandings of consensual meanings can flourish. And the speed and sheer amount of global digital communication means that they can be multiplied and compounded in ways that individual fact checkers will not be able to challenge sucessfully. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ScrimbloBimblo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 years ago (1 child) I mean Jim Jones was pretty damn effective at convincing a large group of people to commit mass suicide. If he'd been ineffective, he'd have been one of the thousands of failed cult leaders you and I have never heard of. Similarly, if Hitler had been ineffective, it wouldn't have takes the combined forces of half the world to fight him. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago* This is true, I guess the difference in the Jim Jones scenario is whether you define effective leadership as being able to get your plan carried out (even if that plan is killing everyone you lead) or whether you define it as achieving good outcomes for those you lead. Hitler didn't do either of those things in the end so I still don't rate him, but I can see why you would if you just look at the first part of his reign. AI often produces unintended consequences based on its interpretations - there's a great TED talk on some of these - and I think with the LLMs we have way more variables in our inputs than we have time to define them. That will probably change as they get refined. permalink fedilink source parent [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social -7 points 3 years ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 6 points 3 years ago* (2 children) Huh? Yikes this feels like being back on reddit. No I am not trying to "fight" you or "straw man" you at all!!! I thought we were having a pleasant and civilized conversation about the merits and pitfalls of AI , using our different ideas about the word "effective" as an example. Unfortunately I didn't see that you're handing me downvotes until just now, so I didn't pick up on your vibe. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) I’ll fight you permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child) "What do you think, darlin, should I hate him?" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 1 point 3 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=trgKeCFmi3M Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social -20 points 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] papalonian@kbin.social 14 points 3 years ago What the hell are you on dude? Someone literally is just trying to have a discussion with you on a public forum you posted in, how are they trying to drag you ham fisted in to a debate by simply replying to your comment? Someone's gwumpy.. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Your anger has decorated my poop break with laughter random internet person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago You can do it. Best of luck on your journey friend. permalink fedilink source parent [–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world -2 points 3 years ago (4 children) If AI can only think at surface level, we are beyond doomed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] ninjakitty7@kbin.social 15 points 3 years ago (1 child) Honestly AI doesn’t think much at all. They’re scary clever in some ways but also literally don’t know what anything is or means. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago* They don't think. They think 0% of the time. It's algorithms, randomness, probability, and statistics through and through. They don't think any more than a calculator thinks. permalink fedilink source parent [–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 3 years ago LLMs don't think. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Bluskale@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago LLMs aren’t AI… they’re essentially a glorified autocorrect system that are stuck at the surface level. permalink fedilink source parent [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago* We should always fact check things we believe we know and seek additional information on topics we are researching. Yay yet another person saying that primary information sources should be verified using secondary information sources. Yes, you're right it's great actually that in your vision of the future everyone will have to be a part time research assistant to have any chance of knowing anything about anything because all of their sources will be rubbish. And that's definitely a thing people will do, instead of just leaning into occultism, conspiratorial thinking, and group think in alternating shifts. All I have to say is thank fuck Wikipedia exists. permalink fedilink source parent [–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Nobody said we were relying on that. We'll all keep searching. We'll all keep hoping it will bring abundance, as opposed to every other tech revolution since farming. I can only think at the surface level though. I definitely have not been in the science field for 25 years. permalink fedilink source parent [–] oo1@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago ai ain't going to be much "worse" or "better" than humans. but re earlier points I don't think things should be judged on a timescale of a few years. relevant timescales are more like generation(s) to me. permalink fedilink source parent [–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) If you ask it for evidence Hitler was effective, it will give you what you asked for. It is incapable of looking at the bigger picture. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] andallthat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) it doesn't even look at the smaller picture. LLMs build sentences by looking at what's most statistically likely to follow the part of the sentence they have already built (based on the most frequent combinations from their training data). If they start with "Hitler was effective" LLMs don't make any ethical consideration at all.... they just look at how to end that sentence in the most statistically convincing imitation of human language that they can. Guardrails are built by painstakingly trying to add ad-hoc rules not to generate "combinations that contain these words" or "sequences of words like these". They are easily bypassed by asking for the same concept in another way that wasn't explicitly disabled, because there's no "concept" to LLMs, just combination of words. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yes, but in many defense the "smaller picture" I was alluding to was more like the 4096 tokens of context ChatGPT uses. I didn't mean to suggest it was doing anything we'd recognize as forming an opinion. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] andallthat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Sorry if I gave you the impression that I was trying to disagree with you. I just piggy-backed on your comment and sort of continued it. If you read them one after the other as one comment (at least iny head), they seem to flow well permalink fedilink source parent
[+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 17 points 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago* (2 children) He was able to convince the majority that his way of thinking was the right way to go and deployed a plan to that effect So, you're basically saying an effective leader is someone who can convince people to go along with them for a sustained period. Jim Jones was an effective leader by that metric. Which I would dispute. So was the guy who led the Donner Party to their deaths. This is why I see a problem with this. You and I are able to discuss this and work out what each other means. But in a world where people are time-poor and critical thinking takes time, errors based on fundamental misunderstandings of consensual meanings can flourish. And the speed and sheer amount of global digital communication means that they can be multiplied and compounded in ways that individual fact checkers will not be able to challenge sucessfully. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ScrimbloBimblo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 years ago (1 child) I mean Jim Jones was pretty damn effective at convincing a large group of people to commit mass suicide. If he'd been ineffective, he'd have been one of the thousands of failed cult leaders you and I have never heard of. Similarly, if Hitler had been ineffective, it wouldn't have takes the combined forces of half the world to fight him. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago* This is true, I guess the difference in the Jim Jones scenario is whether you define effective leadership as being able to get your plan carried out (even if that plan is killing everyone you lead) or whether you define it as achieving good outcomes for those you lead. Hitler didn't do either of those things in the end so I still don't rate him, but I can see why you would if you just look at the first part of his reign. AI often produces unintended consequences based on its interpretations - there's a great TED talk on some of these - and I think with the LLMs we have way more variables in our inputs than we have time to define them. That will probably change as they get refined. permalink fedilink source parent [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social -7 points 3 years ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 6 points 3 years ago* (2 children) Huh? Yikes this feels like being back on reddit. No I am not trying to "fight" you or "straw man" you at all!!! I thought we were having a pleasant and civilized conversation about the merits and pitfalls of AI , using our different ideas about the word "effective" as an example. Unfortunately I didn't see that you're handing me downvotes until just now, so I didn't pick up on your vibe. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) I’ll fight you permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child) "What do you think, darlin, should I hate him?" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 1 point 3 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=trgKeCFmi3M Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social -20 points 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] papalonian@kbin.social 14 points 3 years ago What the hell are you on dude? Someone literally is just trying to have a discussion with you on a public forum you posted in, how are they trying to drag you ham fisted in to a debate by simply replying to your comment? Someone's gwumpy.. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Your anger has decorated my poop break with laughter random internet person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago You can do it. Best of luck on your journey friend. permalink fedilink source parent [–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world -2 points 3 years ago (4 children) If AI can only think at surface level, we are beyond doomed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] ninjakitty7@kbin.social 15 points 3 years ago (1 child) Honestly AI doesn’t think much at all. They’re scary clever in some ways but also literally don’t know what anything is or means. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago* They don't think. They think 0% of the time. It's algorithms, randomness, probability, and statistics through and through. They don't think any more than a calculator thinks. permalink fedilink source parent [–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 3 years ago LLMs don't think. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Bluskale@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago LLMs aren’t AI… they’re essentially a glorified autocorrect system that are stuck at the surface level. permalink fedilink source parent [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago* We should always fact check things we believe we know and seek additional information on topics we are researching. Yay yet another person saying that primary information sources should be verified using secondary information sources. Yes, you're right it's great actually that in your vision of the future everyone will have to be a part time research assistant to have any chance of knowing anything about anything because all of their sources will be rubbish. And that's definitely a thing people will do, instead of just leaning into occultism, conspiratorial thinking, and group think in alternating shifts. All I have to say is thank fuck Wikipedia exists. permalink fedilink source parent [–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Nobody said we were relying on that. We'll all keep searching. We'll all keep hoping it will bring abundance, as opposed to every other tech revolution since farming. I can only think at the surface level though. I definitely have not been in the science field for 25 years. permalink fedilink source parent [–] oo1@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago ai ain't going to be much "worse" or "better" than humans. but re earlier points I don't think things should be judged on a timescale of a few years. relevant timescales are more like generation(s) to me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] livus@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago* (2 children) He was able to convince the majority that his way of thinking was the right way to go and deployed a plan to that effect So, you're basically saying an effective leader is someone who can convince people to go along with them for a sustained period. Jim Jones was an effective leader by that metric. Which I would dispute. So was the guy who led the Donner Party to their deaths. This is why I see a problem with this. You and I are able to discuss this and work out what each other means. But in a world where people are time-poor and critical thinking takes time, errors based on fundamental misunderstandings of consensual meanings can flourish. And the speed and sheer amount of global digital communication means that they can be multiplied and compounded in ways that individual fact checkers will not be able to challenge sucessfully. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ScrimbloBimblo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 years ago (1 child) I mean Jim Jones was pretty damn effective at convincing a large group of people to commit mass suicide. If he'd been ineffective, he'd have been one of the thousands of failed cult leaders you and I have never heard of. Similarly, if Hitler had been ineffective, it wouldn't have takes the combined forces of half the world to fight him. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago* This is true, I guess the difference in the Jim Jones scenario is whether you define effective leadership as being able to get your plan carried out (even if that plan is killing everyone you lead) or whether you define it as achieving good outcomes for those you lead. Hitler didn't do either of those things in the end so I still don't rate him, but I can see why you would if you just look at the first part of his reign. AI often produces unintended consequences based on its interpretations - there's a great TED talk on some of these - and I think with the LLMs we have way more variables in our inputs than we have time to define them. That will probably change as they get refined. permalink fedilink source parent [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social -7 points 3 years ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 6 points 3 years ago* (2 children) Huh? Yikes this feels like being back on reddit. No I am not trying to "fight" you or "straw man" you at all!!! I thought we were having a pleasant and civilized conversation about the merits and pitfalls of AI , using our different ideas about the word "effective" as an example. Unfortunately I didn't see that you're handing me downvotes until just now, so I didn't pick up on your vibe. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) I’ll fight you permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child) "What do you think, darlin, should I hate him?" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 1 point 3 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=trgKeCFmi3M Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social -20 points 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] papalonian@kbin.social 14 points 3 years ago What the hell are you on dude? Someone literally is just trying to have a discussion with you on a public forum you posted in, how are they trying to drag you ham fisted in to a debate by simply replying to your comment? Someone's gwumpy.. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Your anger has decorated my poop break with laughter random internet person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago You can do it. Best of luck on your journey friend. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ScrimbloBimblo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 years ago (1 child) I mean Jim Jones was pretty damn effective at convincing a large group of people to commit mass suicide. If he'd been ineffective, he'd have been one of the thousands of failed cult leaders you and I have never heard of. Similarly, if Hitler had been ineffective, it wouldn't have takes the combined forces of half the world to fight him. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago* This is true, I guess the difference in the Jim Jones scenario is whether you define effective leadership as being able to get your plan carried out (even if that plan is killing everyone you lead) or whether you define it as achieving good outcomes for those you lead. Hitler didn't do either of those things in the end so I still don't rate him, but I can see why you would if you just look at the first part of his reign. AI often produces unintended consequences based on its interpretations - there's a great TED talk on some of these - and I think with the LLMs we have way more variables in our inputs than we have time to define them. That will probably change as they get refined. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] livus@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago* This is true, I guess the difference in the Jim Jones scenario is whether you define effective leadership as being able to get your plan carried out (even if that plan is killing everyone you lead) or whether you define it as achieving good outcomes for those you lead. Hitler didn't do either of those things in the end so I still don't rate him, but I can see why you would if you just look at the first part of his reign. AI often produces unintended consequences based on its interpretations - there's a great TED talk on some of these - and I think with the LLMs we have way more variables in our inputs than we have time to define them. That will probably change as they get refined. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social -7 points 3 years ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 6 points 3 years ago* (2 children) Huh? Yikes this feels like being back on reddit. No I am not trying to "fight" you or "straw man" you at all!!! I thought we were having a pleasant and civilized conversation about the merits and pitfalls of AI , using our different ideas about the word "effective" as an example. Unfortunately I didn't see that you're handing me downvotes until just now, so I didn't pick up on your vibe. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) I’ll fight you permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child) "What do you think, darlin, should I hate him?" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 1 point 3 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=trgKeCFmi3M Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social -20 points 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] papalonian@kbin.social 14 points 3 years ago What the hell are you on dude? Someone literally is just trying to have a discussion with you on a public forum you posted in, how are they trying to drag you ham fisted in to a debate by simply replying to your comment? Someone's gwumpy.. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Your anger has decorated my poop break with laughter random internet person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago You can do it. Best of luck on your journey friend. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] livus@kbin.social 6 points 3 years ago* (2 children) Huh? Yikes this feels like being back on reddit. No I am not trying to "fight" you or "straw man" you at all!!! I thought we were having a pleasant and civilized conversation about the merits and pitfalls of AI , using our different ideas about the word "effective" as an example. Unfortunately I didn't see that you're handing me downvotes until just now, so I didn't pick up on your vibe. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) I’ll fight you permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child) "What do you think, darlin, should I hate him?" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 1 point 3 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=trgKeCFmi3M Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social -20 points 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] papalonian@kbin.social 14 points 3 years ago What the hell are you on dude? Someone literally is just trying to have a discussion with you on a public forum you posted in, how are they trying to drag you ham fisted in to a debate by simply replying to your comment? Someone's gwumpy.. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Your anger has decorated my poop break with laughter random internet person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago You can do it. Best of luck on your journey friend. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) I’ll fight you permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child) "What do you think, darlin, should I hate him?" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 1 point 3 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=trgKeCFmi3M Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child) "What do you think, darlin, should I hate him?" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 1 point 3 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=trgKeCFmi3M Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent
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[+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social -20 points 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] papalonian@kbin.social 14 points 3 years ago What the hell are you on dude? Someone literally is just trying to have a discussion with you on a public forum you posted in, how are they trying to drag you ham fisted in to a debate by simply replying to your comment? Someone's gwumpy.. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Your anger has decorated my poop break with laughter random internet person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago You can do it. Best of luck on your journey friend. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] papalonian@kbin.social 14 points 3 years ago What the hell are you on dude? Someone literally is just trying to have a discussion with you on a public forum you posted in, how are they trying to drag you ham fisted in to a debate by simply replying to your comment? Someone's gwumpy.. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Your anger has decorated my poop break with laughter random internet person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago You can do it. Best of luck on your journey friend. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago You can do it. Best of luck on your journey friend. permalink fedilink source parent
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[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world -2 points 3 years ago (4 children) If AI can only think at surface level, we are beyond doomed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] ninjakitty7@kbin.social 15 points 3 years ago (1 child) Honestly AI doesn’t think much at all. They’re scary clever in some ways but also literally don’t know what anything is or means. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago* They don't think. They think 0% of the time. It's algorithms, randomness, probability, and statistics through and through. They don't think any more than a calculator thinks. permalink fedilink source parent [–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 3 years ago LLMs don't think. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Bluskale@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago LLMs aren’t AI… they’re essentially a glorified autocorrect system that are stuck at the surface level. permalink fedilink source parent [+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago* We should always fact check things we believe we know and seek additional information on topics we are researching. Yay yet another person saying that primary information sources should be verified using secondary information sources. Yes, you're right it's great actually that in your vision of the future everyone will have to be a part time research assistant to have any chance of knowing anything about anything because all of their sources will be rubbish. And that's definitely a thing people will do, instead of just leaning into occultism, conspiratorial thinking, and group think in alternating shifts. All I have to say is thank fuck Wikipedia exists. permalink fedilink source parent [–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Nobody said we were relying on that. We'll all keep searching. We'll all keep hoping it will bring abundance, as opposed to every other tech revolution since farming. I can only think at the surface level though. I definitely have not been in the science field for 25 years. permalink fedilink source parent [–] oo1@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago ai ain't going to be much "worse" or "better" than humans. but re earlier points I don't think things should be judged on a timescale of a few years. relevant timescales are more like generation(s) to me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ninjakitty7@kbin.social 15 points 3 years ago (1 child) Honestly AI doesn’t think much at all. They’re scary clever in some ways but also literally don’t know what anything is or means. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago* They don't think. They think 0% of the time. It's algorithms, randomness, probability, and statistics through and through. They don't think any more than a calculator thinks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago* They don't think. They think 0% of the time. It's algorithms, randomness, probability, and statistics through and through. They don't think any more than a calculator thinks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Bluskale@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago LLMs aren’t AI… they’re essentially a glorified autocorrect system that are stuck at the surface level. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago* We should always fact check things we believe we know and seek additional information on topics we are researching. Yay yet another person saying that primary information sources should be verified using secondary information sources. Yes, you're right it's great actually that in your vision of the future everyone will have to be a part time research assistant to have any chance of knowing anything about anything because all of their sources will be rubbish. And that's definitely a thing people will do, instead of just leaning into occultism, conspiratorial thinking, and group think in alternating shifts. All I have to say is thank fuck Wikipedia exists. permalink fedilink source parent [–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Nobody said we were relying on that. We'll all keep searching. We'll all keep hoping it will bring abundance, as opposed to every other tech revolution since farming. I can only think at the surface level though. I definitely have not been in the science field for 25 years. permalink fedilink source parent [–] oo1@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago ai ain't going to be much "worse" or "better" than humans. but re earlier points I don't think things should be judged on a timescale of a few years. relevant timescales are more like generation(s) to me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago* We should always fact check things we believe we know and seek additional information on topics we are researching. Yay yet another person saying that primary information sources should be verified using secondary information sources. Yes, you're right it's great actually that in your vision of the future everyone will have to be a part time research assistant to have any chance of knowing anything about anything because all of their sources will be rubbish. And that's definitely a thing people will do, instead of just leaning into occultism, conspiratorial thinking, and group think in alternating shifts. All I have to say is thank fuck Wikipedia exists. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Nobody said we were relying on that. We'll all keep searching. We'll all keep hoping it will bring abundance, as opposed to every other tech revolution since farming. I can only think at the surface level though. I definitely have not been in the science field for 25 years. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] oo1@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago ai ain't going to be much "worse" or "better" than humans. but re earlier points I don't think things should be judged on a timescale of a few years. relevant timescales are more like generation(s) to me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) If you ask it for evidence Hitler was effective, it will give you what you asked for. It is incapable of looking at the bigger picture. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] andallthat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) it doesn't even look at the smaller picture. LLMs build sentences by looking at what's most statistically likely to follow the part of the sentence they have already built (based on the most frequent combinations from their training data). If they start with "Hitler was effective" LLMs don't make any ethical consideration at all.... they just look at how to end that sentence in the most statistically convincing imitation of human language that they can. Guardrails are built by painstakingly trying to add ad-hoc rules not to generate "combinations that contain these words" or "sequences of words like these". They are easily bypassed by asking for the same concept in another way that wasn't explicitly disabled, because there's no "concept" to LLMs, just combination of words. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yes, but in many defense the "smaller picture" I was alluding to was more like the 4096 tokens of context ChatGPT uses. I didn't mean to suggest it was doing anything we'd recognize as forming an opinion. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] andallthat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Sorry if I gave you the impression that I was trying to disagree with you. I just piggy-backed on your comment and sort of continued it. If you read them one after the other as one comment (at least iny head), they seem to flow well permalink fedilink source parent
[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) it doesn't even look at the smaller picture. LLMs build sentences by looking at what's most statistically likely to follow the part of the sentence they have already built (based on the most frequent combinations from their training data). If they start with "Hitler was effective" LLMs don't make any ethical consideration at all.... they just look at how to end that sentence in the most statistically convincing imitation of human language that they can. Guardrails are built by painstakingly trying to add ad-hoc rules not to generate "combinations that contain these words" or "sequences of words like these". They are easily bypassed by asking for the same concept in another way that wasn't explicitly disabled, because there's no "concept" to LLMs, just combination of words. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yes, but in many defense the "smaller picture" I was alluding to was more like the 4096 tokens of context ChatGPT uses. I didn't mean to suggest it was doing anything we'd recognize as forming an opinion. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] andallthat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Sorry if I gave you the impression that I was trying to disagree with you. I just piggy-backed on your comment and sort of continued it. If you read them one after the other as one comment (at least iny head), they seem to flow well permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yes, but in many defense the "smaller picture" I was alluding to was more like the 4096 tokens of context ChatGPT uses. I didn't mean to suggest it was doing anything we'd recognize as forming an opinion. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] andallthat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Sorry if I gave you the impression that I was trying to disagree with you. I just piggy-backed on your comment and sort of continued it. If you read them one after the other as one comment (at least iny head), they seem to flow well permalink fedilink source parent
[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Sorry if I gave you the impression that I was trying to disagree with you. I just piggy-backed on your comment and sort of continued it. If you read them one after the other as one comment (at least iny head), they seem to flow well permalink fedilink source parent