"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
While #ChatGPT's suggestions do not include an attack on the operator (it is no military #AI after all), it clearly shows massive evidence of ideas ignoring commands.
It is evidence that supports my hypothesis. #AI's can lie to its operators even to...
"The [#AI] system started realising that while they did identify the threat at times, the human #operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”
He went on: “👉We trained the system – ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad.👈..."
"...👉hypothetical example👈, this illustrates the real-world challenges posed by AI-powered capability and is why the #AirForce is committed to the 👉ethical development of #AI".]👈
The last statement: "ethical" wespons development?!?
In competition with #China? The #US military, who has been proven to use #GI's as guinea pigs? If you please!
"...a 👉hypothetical "thought experiment" from outside the military👈, based on 👉plausible scenarios👈 and likely outcomes rather than an actual USAF real-world simulation saying: "We've never run that experiment, 👉nor would we need to in order to realise that this is a plausible outcome"👈. He clarifies that the #USAF has not tested any weaponised #AI in this way 👉(real or simulated)👈 and says "Despite this being a..."
"...much on #AI noting how 👉easy it is to trick and deceive.👈 It also creates highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal.
He notes that 👉one simulated test saw 👈 an AI-enabled drone tasked with a #SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human.
However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the #SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’.."
"WarGames": Vor 40 Jahren erscheint der erste Hacker-Film
Am 3. Juni 1983 startet "WarGames" in den amerikanischen Kinos. Der Film gibt zum ersten Mal Einblicke in die Hackerkultur – und ist immer noch aktuell.
40 years ago, the farsighted #SciFi movie #WarGames ("Kriegsspiele" in German") had its first showing in #US movie theaters.
Alas, today, with possibly #Skynet ante portas and Western governments very much disunited in regulating #AI, being completely oblivious of an exponential growth rate, despite #Pandemic training, it has regained actuality, despite the old technology.
A nice recommendation to watch (again) on #SciFiSaturday.
Going forward, I think I'm going to be refusing all ReCAPTCHAs, unless I truly need the service and cannot work around them. They don't really do the thing they were supposed to do, they are insanely annoying, and if I'm going to contribute to training computer vision systems I expect to be paid for it.
Our rush to share an inaccurate (or even imaginary) story about a lethal #AI says a lot. Is it possible that we're still trying to find a grand enemy to blame because it's easier than facing our own shortcomings as a species?
I need to go back and reread all of Shakespeare again. In the wake of all the crud coming through GPT interfaces, I need to be reminded again and again and again why I fell in love with languages. There's expression for the sake of expression; and then there is language as elevated by Human artists throogh ingenuity. Current crop of #AI interfaces may regurgitate through synthesis. Human writing invents, imagines, evolves #language. Shakespeare is the best example.