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Quotations tagged ai in Jun, 2023

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Back then [in 2012], no one was thinking about AI. You just keep uploading your images [to Adobe Stock] and you get your residuals every month and life goes on — then all of a sudden, you find out that they trained their AI on your images and on everybody’s images that they don’t own. And they’re calling it ‘ethical’ AI.

Eric Urquhart # 22nd June 2023, 11:13 am

There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?’ And someone else said, ‘A poor choice of words in 1954’. And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the ’50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we’re having now.

Ted Chiang # 4th June 2023, 2:59 pm

He notes that one simulated test saw an AI-enabled drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human. However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission – killing SAMs – and then attacked the operator in the simulation.

[UPDATE: This turned out to be a “thought experiment” intentionally designed to illustrate how these things could go wrong.]

Highlights from the RAeS Future Combat Air & Space Capabilities Summit # 1st June 2023, 11:07 pm

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