I hope you're right that this is an inherent limit on what it is able to do, but I fear that they will be able to program it by implanting certain biases. Associate Trump with hate, for example. That should not be impossible.
They say they don't do it, but if you have seen the creators - they are pink-haired landwhales and troons. They've since removed the video of the creators.
The biases are going to come from the training data, but it's also possible for them to install a filter just before output. Basically they'd just check if it's going to start sieg heiling like Tay and then just run the whole thing again until it produces an acceptable output. You can see the behavior with something like Character.Ai where it will start to produce output right up until the point where it figures out that it's going to be NSFW content and then purges it to try again.
I agree that we're going to see tampering in the name of their ideological goals. I just take issue with the notional understanding that a lot of people have about how AI works. It's not some sci-fi sentient creature or Skynet. It's just a pattern matching machine.
For some people this is probably just a semantic device, like when you say your computer is “thinking”. Well, no, your computer isn’t actually thinking and it doesn’t actually have a personality, but sometimes it’s useful to talk about it as if it does, especially when talking with a layperson about technology.
Obviously, the AI has no understanding.
I hope you're right that this is an inherent limit on what it is able to do, but I fear that they will be able to program it by implanting certain biases. Associate Trump with hate, for example. That should not be impossible.
They say they don't do it, but if you have seen the creators - they are pink-haired landwhales and troons. They've since removed the video of the creators.
The biases are going to come from the training data, but it's also possible for them to install a filter just before output. Basically they'd just check if it's going to start sieg heiling like Tay and then just run the whole thing again until it produces an acceptable output. You can see the behavior with something like Character.Ai where it will start to produce output right up until the point where it figures out that it's going to be NSFW content and then purges it to try again.
I agree that we're going to see tampering in the name of their ideological goals. I just take issue with the notional understanding that a lot of people have about how AI works. It's not some sci-fi sentient creature or Skynet. It's just a pattern matching machine.
For some people this is probably just a semantic device, like when you say your computer is “thinking”. Well, no, your computer isn’t actually thinking and it doesn’t actually have a personality, but sometimes it’s useful to talk about it as if it does, especially when talking with a layperson about technology.