lol, another pop sci article about AI crap
“Researchers Use Backdoor They Programmed Themselves” isn’t an eye-catching headline I guess.
The next line after the one you refer to is “the team from Binghamton University in New York say its violent robot brainwashing is meant to draw attention to underexplored vulnerabilities that can arise when physical robots take instruction from large language models (LLM)” but whaoah, why didn’t you post that in your eye-catching comment, hmmmm? Maybe we should encourage news outlets to post the full story (or the entire research project) in the headline to avoid this kind of malicious summary :)
Machine running on probabilistic code sometimes does random thing.
No forking shirt.
“Let’s give it a knife” 🤦
This is how AI kills humanity.
Not because it’s smart enough to find a knife and use it against us, but because we’re dumb enough to give it one.
or it breaks your fingers if you compete with it in chess.
Rookie mistake. You need to give it two Gatling guns and a rocket launcher.
It probably won’t chop off your finger.
The probability of it, however, is incalculable.
But if we make it do 10x as many multiplications then we can reduce the probability of it chopping off your finger! No, I said reduce the probability not eliminate…
Tbf the same goes for human doctors
It’s not even random, they literally programmed it to do that then did a surprised pikachu.
Software infected with malware can do stuff that it’s not supposed to.
No shit, Sherlock. First time on the internet?
Meanwhile, AI in media:
Uhhh that’s SI for you
Funny thing is, Bishop actually messed up doing this and slightly cut himself (causing Ripley to freak out because she realizes he is an android)
Ah, cool. It has been a long time since I’ve seen it, but I heard about AI and knives and immediately thought of this scene. Definitely worth a re-watch! The last time I saw the original Alien was about 5 years ago and I just could not believe how good everything looked when practical effects were king (and you have a director who cares about having a lived-in-looking set).
Definitely do a rewatch. Alien is probably my favorite classic
I’m so tired of “surprise” headlines about AI.
It’s fucking dumb.
Apply “it’s fucking dumb” first. Did it make it not noteworthy? Then shut the fuck up.
Humans can be tricked into slicing off their fingers, too…
False equivalencies are so annoying. It’s AI, not a human. It’s a tool. If a company made chainsaws that could intentionally cut off fingers by themselves, they’d be out of business by Monday.
It is a pretty dumb article. LLMs are just easy to manipulate though, and too many people treat them like rigid all knowing programs.
Good. If people are afraid of AI for this reason, then let’s have more of this.
As unlikely as anyone is to encounter this, I’m for anything that paints this AI shit in bad light.
Fuck AI.
“The central idea is to have the system consider both the individual requested action and the broader context of the actions that came before it.”
Looks like a rule #1 to me…
Except that it would imply that the rule isn’t given to an hallucinatory slop machine.
