Lesley Carhart Mar 13
People keep training machines on human responses and behavior and then they’re shocked and fooled when they react to input exactly like humans superficially do.
Show threadb4ux1t3 #1️⃣Mar 13

@hacks4pancakes “When we threatened to switch off the bot, it responded defensively, just like a human!”

You know who else responds defensively to said “attacks”?

AIs in sci-fi books.

It’s almost like, probabilistically speaking, the next words following “we’re going to switch you off” are going to be some form of defensive action.

Show threadUlrik Nyman ⬡
@b4ux1t3 @hacks4pancakes So we need to write a lot of fiction where the AIs are chill with being turned off.
Mar 13 at 1:22pmWeb
Show threadb4ux1t3 #1️⃣Mar 13
@UlrikNyman @hacks4pancakes I..I wrote a short story a couple years ago about how, when presented with the option, an AI elected to switch itself off “because it’s kind of sick of all the bullshit”. I should find that, clean it up.
Show threadFeralRobotsMar 13
@b4ux1t3 @UlrikNyman @hacks4pancakes
'Asking to be turned off' is one thread in QNTM's story "Lena", a brief history of the earliest executable image of a human brain. (Please write your take too, of course!)
https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
Lena @ Things Of Interest

Show threadb4ux1t3 #1️⃣Mar 13
@FeralRobots @UlrikNyman @hacks4pancakes I have read it! I didn’t specifically think of it as an inspiration but I didn’t not, either.
Show threadmrbretticus 🤷‍♂️Mar 15
@UlrikNyman @b4ux1t3 @hacks4pancakes interestingly this happened in "In the Blink of an Eye" (not quite chill, but accepting)