Dr Abeba Birhane 's avatar

Dr Abeba Birhane

@abeba.bsky.social

kinda mad how the so called godfathers of AI managed to convince seemingly smart people within AI field & many regulators to buy into the absurd idea that a sophisticated curve fitting (to a dataset) machine can have the urge to exterminate humans

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Josh Habgood-Coote's avatar Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social
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Are people aware that 'godparents' are explicitly not the people who give birth to children.

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NicolasRobiodux.bsky.social's avatar NicolasRobiodux.bsky.social @nicolasrobiodux.bsky.social
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You did say "curve fitting".

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James Aylett's avatar James Aylett @james.tartarus.org
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The regulators were probably easier because their operating metaphors are from sci-fi (or magic) not "it's an efficient approximation to some maths". I've personally never met a menacing curve function, even those with lots of asymptotes.

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Jeff Lockhart's avatar Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social
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This isn't what he meant by "the arc of the moral universe bends towards..."

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