https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/02/chatgpt_considered_harmful/
"“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
These were the words that introduced most people in my generation to the
concept of an AI gone rogue; HAL 9000 in the classic science fiction movie
2001: A Space Odyssey, eventually went insane singing the lyrics of
Daisy,
Daisy as it slowly blinked its ominous red eye before finally shutting down
permanently.
To be clear, HAL 9000 is not the only AI ever to go rogue in popular science
fiction - literature is littered with such stories, but there was a certain
relatability and poignancy in the HAL 9000 scenario as throughout the movie HAL
had been not just useful but one could even say friendly, and was as much part
of the cast as the real actors. For me, the scene will never be forgotten
because of the sense of disbelief that an AI would cause or attempt to cause
harm to a human - after all, we had heard of Asimov’s laws of robotics, and
assumed AIs would be safe because they would follow those laws.
The problem is, just as HAL 9000 was science fiction, so were Asimov’s works
and as such relying on fictional laws in the context of the real world and how
robotics and AIs are being developed and deployed, is folly. We cannot assume
that real-world models are being trained based on such fictional laws and the
reality is, they are not."
Via Esther Schindler, who wrote "This is the third incident in which ChatGPT is
convinced that the author is dead."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
