Ben RamseyWhat I hate so much about this timeline is that when you question the use of generative AI, the burden is always on you to prove that the AI won’t do the thing they think it will do. It’s never on them to prove it will be beneficial. They always start from the standpoint that AI works.
Derick Rethans@ramsey sounds like a similar mistake at how UK law believes that a computer can't be wrong, and then you get the Post Office scandal...
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M1ke@m1ke @maccath @derickr Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this. It’s incredible! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
@ramsey @m1ke @maccath Yeah. I have read some of the technical report, and some of these bugs are just silly. Like not dealing with idempotency in a distributed sync. But the real scandal are the cover-ups, and denial from senior Post Office staff and leadership. Fujitsu is also not getting the penalties it deserves.
MelHamnavoe@derickr @ramsey @m1ke @maccath Ethics should be a compulsory part of any #softwareengineering #computerscience degree, is a hill I will happily die on. These weren’t kids off a bootcamp, these were senior BCS type engineers, who were happy to see their users jailed to save their blushes. There are no polite words to adequately describe these people.
@MelvilleSpence @ramsey @m1ke @maccath We had a little module on my course, but not quite enough.
I also belive conferences should have talks on ethics and law. But not having much success getting these talks accepted.
Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦@derickr @MelvilleSpence @ramsey @m1ke @maccath haha if Laracon did that there couldn’t have been 3 talks on AI. Hahahaha