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0 pointsthisoneworks3y ago0 comments

With great power comes great responsibility? Today there's nothing stopping grandmas from driving, so whatever could go wrong is already going wrong

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johnfn3y ago

It’s a problem of scale. If grandma could autonomously pilot a fleet of 500 cars we might be worried. Same thing if Joe Shmoe can spin up hundreds of instances of stock trading bots.

thisoneworksOP3y ago

You're better off placing your bet on Russian and Chinese hackers, crypto scammers than a Joe Shmoe. But read https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/the-llama-is-out-of-the-ba... - there's no noticeable rise in misinformation

pixl973y ago

You don't understand the alignment problem.

thisoneworksOP3y ago

Oh I'm aware of it. I do not think it holds any merit right now when we're talking about coding assistants.

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johnfn3y ago

It’s a problem of scale. If grandma could autonomously pilot a fleet of 500 cars we might be worried. Same thing if Joe Shmoe can spin up hundreds of instances of stock trading bots.

thisoneworksOP3y ago

pixl973y ago

You don't understand the alignment problem.

thisoneworksOP3y ago

Oh I'm aware of it. I do not think it holds any merit right now when we're talking about coding assistants.

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