‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead

Re:‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger... by danShumway on Monday May 01, 2023 @09:50PM (#35782220)

I don't mean it's easy to do, I mean they're doing it. Google is literally announcing a cloud service that uses an LLM to analyze if code snippets are safe. This is an obviously bad idea and it's not theoretical, it already exists.

I don't necessarily disagree that it was a leap, but it's a leap we've taken now.

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Re:‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger... by zmmmmm on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:43PM (#35782657)

I think I mostly am agreeing with you but I see it through a liability lens.

When Google's cloud service to analyze code snippets screws up, nothing in the ToU should alleviate Google from the responsibility they should rightly bear if they ship a system with known and understood flaws that are not clearly portrayed to the user (and I don't mean buried in the middle of a paragraph in page 36 of the ToU).

If forcing Google to accept liability kills the service dead then good - it's probably the right thing until they can reach an acceptable level of safety that they are willing to accept the resultant risk.

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