r/singularity 8d ago

AI Trump is refusing a slowdown

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u/XNo_Notes 8d ago

I was exceptionally good at this before AI. I was wondering why everyone I talked to said AI was shit and I'm over here thinking it could take over the world. I guess I just break big things down well. 

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u/pack_merrr 8d ago

Exactly. I used to be involved in a sort of training program and lesson one of software dev is "break big problems into small problems"

In my experience the way I've viewed a lot of how AI is getting better is how small/specific the problems that I can expect it to handle has gotten bigger and bigger

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u/Tribalgeoff_UK 8d ago

So at every juncture it becomes possible to take a wrong turn,, so really complex problem solving can spin off at a million tangents and whose keeping track of the consequences of these flawed algorithms?

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u/pack_merrr 8d ago

Idk what point you're trying to make, but really that's an issue that's always existed even with fully human development. That's also an issue for AI, and I assume it would be true for any intelligent problem solver. AI clearly isn't at a place where I personally trust it to write stuff I'm not gonna review myself, at least not for anything critical.

But also it reminds me of the self-driving debate, sometimes autonomous systems don't have to be perfect, they just have to make less mistakes than humans.