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[–] renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 54 minutes ago (2 children)

you can like... enforce this rule programatically? you don't have to say "pretty please" to ai? basically, when AI requests some potentially unwanted thing (like deleting an email), this request goes through a proxy that asks the human for confirmation. Also you can have a safe word set up in the chat interface to act as a killswitch. I thought these are ABCs of ai safety but apparently these are foreign concepts to this "safety director"

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 minutes ago

Program? Like a fucking farmer?

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 minutes ago

The people who internalize this would never engage with a chatbot in this way in the first place. To them this is another intelligence they're conversing with, where you get what you want by following social decorum and enforcing your will amounts to abuse.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 3 points 58 minutes ago

Run? Like physically run? You install a server on your hardware without setting up remote access? Even plug and play one-click solutions like tailscale??

[–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 27 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

I hate how Apple users feel the need to call their computer by the brand. It really makes me cringe.

It is called "a computer"

Maybe "PC"

"box" if you really have to flex that UNIX

They should treat their computers less like a sports car and more like a van

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, isnt that the entire point of Apple? Brand recognition and percieved status attributed to said brand. Its like rappers and gucci belts or country artists and ford pickups

[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 24 minutes ago

yes the point of apple prodcuts is to waste money and shove it at everyone's faces

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago

yeah I sat there for a few seconds trying to figure out the relevance

turns out, it wasn't relevant

instant loss of attention and judging of their character

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Ehhhh as an owner of five or six windows computers, four Linux machines, and a couple Apple computers, I always specify which machine I’m referring to if I’m talking about something I did/something that happened on one of them in case it could be pertinent.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 30 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

The funniest part is this person job is AI safety.

[–] Chulk@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah, I personally wouldn't be announcing this failure to the world if I were in her position. I don't think you could torture it out of me lmao

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago)

Maybe they want to get this out there as cover if/when some regulator somewhere decides to subpoena records from the AI safety director.

[–] KokoSabreScruffy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Maybe they are meant to protect the AI

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago

Maybe they'll take their job more seriously now?

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Can someone explain to mr why these people are buying Mac Minis to run this in a "safe" environment and then they go on and connect it to the internet and give the AI credentials to all their cloud accounts? This seems excessively moronic to me? Am I missing something?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 minute ago

They are buying the Mac Minis since they are a cheap way to run a server where this would work. They aren't create a safe environment for AI, but an access point on local hardware.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 2 hours ago

I don't think you're missing anything. I'm pretty sure this is the trend. People buy Mac Minis, probably don't even download a local model, FA, and FO.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago

They are slaves to trends and haven't thought about it even a little bit?

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Arm power efficiency, and unified ram at a fairly low price (at least compared to current ram pricing).

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 17 points 4 hours ago

I love so much that there are real, hilarious consequences for overzealous early adoption. You can't make this shit up.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 32 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

AI: I'm so sorry. You're correct I violated protocol. I'll make a note of this so it won't happen again.

Nurse: You gave my 5 year old patient 5000cc of morphine!

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 11 points 2 hours ago

it won’t happen again.

Not to him, no.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Now, that's on the Nurse if they didn't notice they were injecting someone with 5-liters of morphine.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't that why we're adopting AI? So the nurse can focus on more important things? 🤫

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

What could possibly be more important than the patient?

Why, the shareholders of course, silly!

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 108 points 6 hours ago (8 children)

I love how these models apologize like they mean it. It doesn't mean it. It doesn't feel bad, and it will do it again.

Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat."

Sure it claims it added more notes to it's config, but if it ignored the rules before, what makes you think that new rules are going to change anything?

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 13 minutes ago

Like an abusive relationship

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago

They behave exactly a child does when a parent forces an apology.

They have the words they're expect to say so they do say them but they don't undersranr why, they definitely don't mean it and they lack the restrain to not doing whatever they apologized for over and over.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat."

If only some people meant it that way too!

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 46 points 6 hours ago

But it’s adding it to a text file that eats up a ton of tokens and routinely gets ignored!

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Apologies mean “I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won’t repeat.”

At best it might not make the same mistake again if that memory is in the current context. But more likely: It will not remember.

Although latest Gemini in particular has much more room for "remembering" things, still.

But "I made a mistake"? It is not self-aware in any way shape or form to the degree where "I made a mistake" carries any real meaning.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago

That MEMORY. md file won't do shit if the AI doesn't read it.

I give it 2 hours before it stops reading it until prompted again.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 69 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

If I was the director of AI safety, and I used AI to own and delete my inbox, I sure as shit would never tell a soul.

This is pure unbridled incompetence.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If I was the director of AI safety, [...] would never tell a soul.

As a director of something, you are kinda public person. No way to just not tell.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Okay but this is like the armoury master person shooting their own foot with a loaded gun when they were juggling guns.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Then the public wants to know where that hole in the director's foot comes from.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 30 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

The whole "AI safety" field is this incompetent. These people that will tell you AI is on the verge of creating a bioweapon, and then run random code in a command line. Completely and totally unserious.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 24 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I don’t know what the hell has happened, but some of these people are basically human jellyfish. Big tech is full of them now.

No thought enters their mind, but they dodge the layoffs and the PIPs and get promoted like this.

I don’t fucking get it.

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[–] violentfart@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

They wanted to “eat their own dog food” but it’s closer to “eating their own dog shit”

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

How come some 25yo person is a director at Facebook?

I mean, even if she is a child prodigy genius, which she obviously is not as she is face first fist deep into AI, how the frack do you have even enough life experience to become a director of any large organization at that age unless you somehow cheated your way in?

Then reading the hat she's doing and how she resolved it tells me she doesn't know shit about computers, she just know how to type commands into AI systems

Is this the future? Am I going to end up being one of those long bearded magicians that still know the old technology, that still can still save the day by using shell commands?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

Don't American companies give a loooot of people director or executive director titles just because it sounds impressive? In roles where you gotta talk to corporate customers at least

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

How come some 25yo person is a director at Facebook?

Maybe she has met the Suckerberg at some time when she was ... younger?

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 79 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The world's first opt-in computer worm. 🐛 🪱

[–] XLE@piefed.social 28 points 6 hours ago

If all the qualifications I need to be a security engineer for Facebook are

  • buy a Mac Mini
  • don't configure remote access
  • install untrusted software
  • leave

Then Facebook should hire me. I'll buy so many Mac Minis on their dime. I will run so many crazy things.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 38 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

“The bot ate my homework” is quickly becoming more plausible than the customary canine culprit.

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