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Re:An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep by lancengym on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:50AM (#27747782)
Interesting essay. I think the big blind spot for humans programming AI is also the fact that we tend to overlook the obvious, whereas algorithms will tend to take the path of least resistance without prejudice or coloring by habit and experience.
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Re:An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep by TeMPOraL on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:54AM (#27747848)
Yes. What I like about AI research is that it teaches us about all the things we take for granted, it shows us just how much of meaning is implicit and built on shared history and circumstances.
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Re:An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep by saalweachter on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:27AM (#27748207)
The hard part about programming is that you have to tell the computer what you want it to do.
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Re:An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep by TeMPOraL on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:28AM (#27748226)
The difficult, but in many ways rewarding, core of that is that it forces you to finally figure out what you actually want, because the computer won't accept anything except perfect clarity.
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