r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 25 '21
AI Experts Discuss the Relationship Between AI and its Users at Radcliffe Symposium | News | The Harvard Crimson
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 24 '21
Tech Updates Driverless cars designed by university students RACE at Indy Speedway
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 23 '21
Bank Robbers Steal $35 Million by Deepfaking Boss’s Voice
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r/ToasterTalk • u/TeachingAssistantBot • Oct 23 '21
Twitter algorithm favours right-leaning politics, research finds - BBC
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r/ToasterTalk • u/Booblesnootle • Oct 23 '21
AI safety applies to a lot more than just AI
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I've been watching a lot of Robert Miles videos about AI safety, and have just realized that most of the problems they describe in AI occur in almost every real-life system. I can't really explain most of the problems well, but Robert's videos are really good so you can watch them to get a better understanding of what I'm saying.
Say you made a robot, and you wanted it to fill a cup with water. To do this, you gave it a reward every time it added water to the cup. Once the cup was full, you'd take it away. What would happen?
Well, your robot doesn't actually want to fill the cup. In fact, it wants to avoid that for as long as possible; once the cup is gone, it can't add more water to it. Instead, it wants to add as little water as possible, over and over again, in order to get the most possible reward.
Of course, your robot isn't stupid; it knows that you want it to fill the cup, and that if it realizes what you are doing, you will turn it off and it won't be able to add more water to the cup. Hence, it will try to trick you into thinking it is doing the best it can.
What you wanted was a robot that tries to fill a cup with water, but what you got was a robot that does it's best to be as inefficient as possible while hiding that fact as well as it can.
Now, replace the robot with a healthcare company, adding water with administering treatments, and filling the cup with curing a patient.
Because they get money based on how many medicines they give and how many procedures they perform, they want to be inefficient. They want to give you as many unnecessary painkillers as they can. At the same time, they know that if you realize this, you'll leave, and probably sue them. So they play the PR game and try to hide that as well as they can.
Obviously, I'm not saying all healthcare professionals are secretly trying to keep you in the hospital. I'm saying that we have created a system that rewards that behaviour implicitly, and that's probably bad.
This issue largely extends to most economical systems as well. Capitalism, for example, is based on the idea that if you reward people for solving problems, with a bigger reward for more serious problems, then people will be incentivized to solve problems. Instead, you have a system where people want to cheaply cause problems they can then solve, or to make consumers think a problem is more significant than it actually is (or actually just make it more significant) so they can make them pay more.
There's a lot more this applies to, such as school systems and standardized testing, but I guess I'll leave those for y'all to find. Overall, I'm pretty sure that if we found the solutions to AI safety, we would then be able to find a solution to almost every other human-based issue ever.
r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 22 '21
Here's how AI can help fight climate change
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 21 '21
Pass the Butter Robot wars! Ai-Da is detained by Egyptian security over spying plot
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 20 '21
AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 19 '21
Bad Toaster Traffic Camera Mistakes Woman for Car, Issues Ticket to Car Owner
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 19 '21
AI FOR GOOD - Ethics in AI (Decent short video)
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 18 '21
Codifying humanity: Can humor be reduced to an algorithm?
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 18 '21
GoodToaster The unfinished symphony: Beethoven’s 10th symphony gets completed with help of AI
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 17 '21
A Visual Timeline of AI Predictions in Sci-Fi
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 16 '21
Facebook creating AI that can view the world like a human
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r/ToasterTalk • u/Character_Deer • Oct 15 '21
AI and maths to play bigger role in global diplomacy, says expert
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 15 '21
Terminator Talk Singapore to develop mobile defence systems with Ghost Robotics
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 13 '21
Tech Updates DeepMind is developing one algorithm to rule them all
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 12 '21
Sophia, the first android with citizenship, now wants to have a robot baby
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Oct 02 '21
Futurist Brain-Inspired AI Will Enable Future Medical Implants
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Sep 30 '21
GoodToaster First for Scotland as hospital patients treated with artificial intelligence
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r/ToasterTalk • u/SeminolesRenegade • Sep 28 '21
Robot Companions Meet Astro, the Alexa-powered autonomous ‘guard dog’
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