• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Asimov’s robots were inherently algorithmic.

    LLMs are inherently stochastic, and can’t be made to conform to any laws with certainty.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    “Laws” don’t work like that, because the people making the chatbots don’t even understand how they work…

    They can’t make their chatbots do anything, and they can’t stop them from doing anything either.

    They “program” by giving it a task over and over, and telling it when it does a good job. That’s why they operate at a loss and are desperate for people to use it. The more it’s used the better it got, and they think if people use it enough, some day it will magically start working

    But even if it did, no one would know how it works. And if that ever happens, the first thing they’d do is have that chatbot train others.

    We need laws for the humans running the code, not for the code.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Most of Asimov’s robot stories were about how those laws led to unintended (and mostly unwanted) consequences. So while I think it’s good to keep the three laws in mind, a useful set of restrictions is going to be more complicated than that.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    I hate this question. Asimov’s laws were a plot device for stories about how they fail.

  • Zensate@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    No.

    Since language is always subject to interpretation, any LLM that is regulated by language will be able to interpret its own limitations.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Yeah sure. How?

    It sounds good in theory (maybe). But I don’t know how you’d achieve it in practise.