For example if someone creates something new that is horrible for humans, how will AI understand that it is bad if it doesn’t have other horrible things to relate it with?

  • dedale
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    11 year ago

    Then again, most humans conception of right and wrong depends on context, not on a coherent morality framework.

    • Maeve
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      11 year ago

      What does that even mean? Contact matters.

      • dedale
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        1 year ago

        I mean most of the time we act based on what we perceive to be socially acceptable, not by following an ethical law gained through our own experience.
        If you move people to a different social environment, they’ll adapt to fit unless actively discouraged.
        The social context is the AI prompt.
        We rarely decide, make choices, or reflect about anything, we regurgitate our training data based on our prompts.

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          11 year ago

          Excellent, thank you! I’m wondering if something was lost in translation or my interpretation. When I think “context,” I consider something along the lines of: “Water is good.”

          Is it good for a person drowning? What if it’s contaminated? What about during a hurricane/typhoon? And so forth.

          • dedale
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            11 year ago

            Yeah sorry about that, sometimes thing that feel evident in my head are anything but when written.
            And translation adds a layer of possible confusion.
            I’d rather drown in clean water given a choice.

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              11 year ago

              No worries, friend! I’m the same way and when questioned, upon rereading my post, even I wonder what on earth I was thinking, when I wrote it!

              I hear you. Sadly, we’re often not given a choice, wrt water.