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0 pointsbadestrand4y ago0 comments

GPT-3 is just a tool. If a product that uses it messes up you can hardly blame it on the tool but rather on that product or the company developing it (here Nabla).

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s3tz4y ago

Not exactly, it's a service with unpredictable output. This isn't like a knife where you know what will happen depending on how you use it.

egeozcan4y ago

Chatting with random people on the internet is much more unpredictable. Try writing on 4chan that you are depressed and gasp in horror how horrible humans can be when anonymous.

Okay maybe it is indeed very predictable what would happen on 4chan, but I hope you get my point.

Here the AI is just a tool, we shouldn't categorize them as some "special" software.

_s_a_m_4y ago

> Chatting with random people on the internet is much more unpredictable

Not particularly the best comparison, we are talking here about applications and services which we sell and we have to make sure that we have the confidence that we can trust our own systems and the customer can rely on our word and engineering skills. Right now we are still in the primordial soup of AI. As long as we do not have proper methods to verify and certify our models, they are dangerous and unpredictable.

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bsjks4y ago

If you ask in certain boards and make an effort to write your post detailing what’s going on, you will only receive helpful responses.

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_s_a_m_4y ago

You can frame anything being "a tool". But if you want to stay within your logic, then this is a very specific "tool", it is supposed to directly interact with people, not machine to machine, and as such it can have consequences which are unpredictable. And no, human to human interaction is mostly NOT unpredictable, we act according to social norms and have common sense, otherwise you're not a proper human.

This is not a new issue but is heavily researched in the certifiable AI area. If you just turning million knobs randomly based on an architecture and the biased data you have, of course you don't really known what you are doing.

KarlKemp4y ago

It really doesn’t matter what it ‘is’ or if it makes sense to speak of things in moral categories. There are plenty of ‘tools’ that are/should be restricted, from guns to Tucker Carlson.

It can obviously have some effect on the so-called ‘real world’, or people wouldn’t pour money into developing & using it. It would be a unique feat to be powerful with no chance of any of the effects being harmful.

From there, it’s just arithmetics: what harms and benefits do we expect with what probabilities, and how does this change depending on the distribution scheme?

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s3tz4y ago

Not exactly, it's a service with unpredictable output. This isn't like a knife where you know what will happen depending on how you use it.

egeozcan4y ago

Chatting with random people on the internet is much more unpredictable. Try writing on 4chan that you are depressed and gasp in horror how horrible humans can be when anonymous.

Okay maybe it is indeed very predictable what would happen on 4chan, but I hope you get my point.

Here the AI is just a tool, we shouldn't categorize them as some "special" software.

_s_a_m_4y ago

> Chatting with random people on the internet is much more unpredictable

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bsjks4y ago

If you ask in certain boards and make an effort to write your post detailing what’s going on, you will only receive helpful responses.

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_s_a_m_4y ago

KarlKemp4y ago

It really doesn’t matter what it ‘is’ or if it makes sense to speak of things in moral categories. There are plenty of ‘tools’ that are/should be restricted, from guns to Tucker Carlson.

From there, it’s just arithmetics: what harms and benefits do we expect with what probabilities, and how does this change depending on the distribution scheme?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse