[HN Gopher] Of God and Machines
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       Of God and Machines
        
       Author : signa11
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2022-09-18 09:42 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theatlantic.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theatlantic.com)
        
       | case0x00 wrote:
       | "An artificial general intelligence will probably look more like
       | a whole series of exponentially improving tools than a single
       | thing" cements how I feel AI will be. Also its amusing how GPT-3
       | wrote that, and I'm agreeing with it.
       | 
       | Its a good article, pretty accessible IMO, and quite poetic.
        
       | photochemsyn wrote:
       | Interesting article, but the only mention of regulation of AI
       | tech is a bit off, although probably not deliberately so:
       | 
       | > "In an attempt to regulate AI, the European Union has proposed
       | transparency requirements for all machine-learning algorithms.
       | Eric Schmidt, the ex-CEO of Google, noted that such requirements
       | would effectively end the development of the technology. The EU's
       | plan "requires that the system would be able to explain itself.
       | But machine-learning systems cannot fully explain how they make
       | their decisions," he said at a 2021 summit."
       | 
       | It's very clear that recommendation algorithms on Youtube, for
       | example, are heavily biased in specific directions. The operators
       | of the recommendation system must have access to many dials and
       | filters that control input to and output from the black-box-
       | algorithm, and it's those dials and filters that need to be
       | transparently exposed. Ideally, the user should themselves have
       | access to the filters and dials.
        
         | joe_the_user wrote:
         | _It 's very clear that recommendation algorithms on Youtube,
         | for example, are heavily biased in specific directions._
         | 
         | Indeed, the final result of the youtube recommender might well
         | not be clear to the programmers even if they're satisfying
         | their metric (it's been for a variety of ills, notably). But
         | this is just a stronger argument for demanding explainability
         | in this context.
        
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