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What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It might turn into dumb skynet though. Like a version of skynet that does malicious things, but not because it’s trying to hurt people, just because it’s really stupid and we put it in charge of things.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah, the McKittrick effect (remember Wargames?)

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh like politicians and CEOs? Can we try replacing them with AI?

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Boards are certainly looking at this. They certainty won't align with the workers, consumers, or publics interest.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We can't even get them to not be racist under light adversarial conditions. Billions of dollars have probably been spent on that problem to no avail.

LLMs like ChatGPT have kind of just turned the problem of getting knowledge into a computer, into the problem of getting it back out in a controlled way. It's still hard and failure-prone but now nobody knows how it works inside.