Re:Elon Musk says he's terrified of AI taking over the world
by techdragon on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:09PM
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My money is on GTP-3 and it’s descendants eroding the ability to discern fact and even deliberately written fiction, from machine generated junk.
As these models get used to drive summaries and other text processes their pseudo-meaning will creep out from a kind of textual uncanny as everyone gets used to it... eventually it becomes dangerously difficult to glean actually useful knowledge from repeatedly reprocessing the now polluted corpus of “real world text” and we get some real world consequences, much like the failure of engineering at NASA to convey the risk of launching Challenger in the cold, when forced to summarise it to a single slide it conveyed the opposite meaning to management. When we stop doing the summary ourselves were in for trouble eventually.
As these models get used to drive summaries and other text processes their pseudo-meaning will creep out from a kind of textual uncanny as everyone gets used to it... eventually it becomes dangerously difficult to glean actually useful knowledge from repeatedly reprocessing the now polluted corpus of “real world text” and we get some real world consequences, much like the failure of engineering at NASA to convey the risk of launching Challenger in the cold, when forced to summarise it to a single slide it conveyed the opposite meaning to management. When we stop doing the summary ourselves were in for trouble eventually.