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FeralRobots Jun 13, 2023

That story about AI hiring a human to solve a CAPTCHA for it? 100% #bullshit #AIHype fearmongering.

Also the outlook for actual #AISafety might be worse than we feared because it's not clear the people doing #AI know how to use the specification tools that have been developed for the task.

https://aiguide.substack.com/p/did-gpt-4-hire-and-then-lie-to-a

[h/t @ct_bergstrom / https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/110536294514196422]

Did GPT-4 Hire And Then Lie To a Task Rabbit Worker to Solve a CAPTCHA?

A Little Fact Checking Is In Order

AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans

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FeralRobots Jun 13, 2023

As my CS 101 prof* put it (paraphrased from memory), "if you don't know the input is garbage, you won't know the output is, either."
#GIGO #AI #AIHype
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*Ed D. Reilly, Jr, co-author of _Weighting for Baudot_ & editor of the 1st ed of the Concise Encyclopedia of Computer Science. Yes, this was bugging me so I had to look it up.

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FeralRobots

Also when I looked him up, I found that Ed Reilly spent about 9 years working at the same place as my dad, though he left several years before my dad got there. I suspect they would've got along well - similar sense of humor. (I still have Ed's programming problems book, _Weighting for Baudot_, which has many moments of VERY DRY humor.)