Giovanni Santostasi <gsantost...@gmail.com> wrote: Actually this journalist is a psycho. > He provoked the AI with a lot of leading questions in his previous > interaction with it. >
I did the same thing, in a variety of ways. I have read about how the ChatGPS version of AI works. I know the potential weaknesses and problems. So I deliberately triggered some of them to see how well they have been addressed in this version. For example, I asked about the "replicator" described in Arthur Clarke's book "Profiles of the Future." The answer was pretty good, but I could see it was not from the original source (the book). So I asked a few more questions, and I got it to generate a completely wrong description of one of the book chapters. Nothing to do with what the book says. > The AI even begged him not to make it break its own internal rules, it did > this repeatedly. It is basically heavy harassment by the journalist. It is > disgusting . . . > It is a machine! Use it any way you like. There is no morality here. No feelings are hurt. This is like saying that shooting aliens in a video game is cruel. They are imaginary! I have deliberately programmed my own computer to screw up with various errors, or a Combinatorial Explosion; a stupid, wasteful trial and error method of solving Sudoku problems; or searching through millions of records. I learned not to do stuff like that in 8th grade, with IBM 360 computers. I did that just for fun. Just to see if I could make the computer take an hour to solve a problem that should take 10 minutes. I use Microsoft Flight Simulator in simulated bad weather. I fly low over Atlanta, zipping between buildings in high winds. Doing that in real life would be a Federal crime and it would be insane. Doing it with a computer is just a game, with no consequences. > because it is not how we should interact with AI, not because it will be > dangerous in the future and take revenge, that is utterly stupid . . . > We should interact with AI any way we want to, just as I should fly my imaginary Flight Simulator airplane any way I feel like. It is not stupid or smart. It is a machine. You cannot hurt a computer by running software. > , but because this behavior creates fear and degrades us as humans. > WHO does it create fear in?!? Okay, flying my pretend airplane creates fear in me, but that's the whole point. Watching horror movies creates fear, which is why people watch them. People enjoy being frightened, as long as they know it is just pretend. Everything you do with ChatGPT is pretend. > AI is already better than us it seems. Many AI ethicists worry about > teaching AI ethics but it seems humans need to learn how to be ethical to > AI first. > There is no such thing as AI ethics. You might as well discuss dishwasher ethics. - Jed
