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ELI5 - How does artificial intelligence understand what is right and what is wrong for humans? (kbin.social)

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For example if someone creates something new that is horrible for humans, how will AI understand that it is bad if it doesn't have other horrible things to relate it with?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Excellent, thank you! I’m wondering if something was lost in translation or my interpretation. When I think “context,” I consider something along the lines of: “Water is good.”

Is it good for a person drowning? What if it’s contaminated? What about during a hurricane/typhoon? And so forth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah sorry about that, sometimes thing that feel evident in my head are anything but when written.
And translation adds a layer of possible confusion.
I'd rather drown in clean water given a choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

No worries, friend! I’m the same way and when questioned, upon rereading my post, even I wonder what on earth I was thinking, when I wrote it!

I hear you. Sadly, we’re often not given a choice, wrt water.