For Tesla, Facebook and Others, AI’s Flaws Are Getting Harder to Ignore

Re:For Tesla, Facebook and Others, AI’s Flaws Are Getting Ha... by BurningFrog on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:04AM (#28747634)

If new technology X saves 100 lives for each person it kills, it will be banned.

Because the dead person has a name, a tragic story, and grieving relatives, which will make the news.

The 100 saved people are anonymous, don't know they were saved by X, and this will be unreported outside of obscure research journals.

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Re:For Tesla, Facebook and Others, AI’s Flaws Are Getting Ha... by ClumsyPilot on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:48AM (#28748236)

If you save a child from drowning you don't get a 'a kill coupon' you can retrieve next time you are accused of murder.

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Re:For Tesla, Facebook and Others, AI’s Flaws Are Getting Ha... by Sodman on Monday October 04, 2021 @12:08PM (#28748665)

Certainly not, but if we invent a life-saving medicine that 1 in 1 million people have a fatal reaction to, we'll still consider it enough of an overall positive for humanity to celebrate it as a technological win for society.

The ratio isn't 1:1 or even 1:10, but there is a line somewhere where X deaths <caused by new tech> is acceptable because of the X^Y lives saved <by new tech>.

See also: Most modes of transport, most medicines and surgical procedures.

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Re:For Tesla, Facebook and Others, AI’s Flaws Are Getting Ha... by BurningFrog on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:05PM (#28753983)

Deliberate murders of individuals are morally very different from tiny risks of deaths in a large population.

Nothing good comes from trying to treat them as the same.

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