• latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Uuh… skipping over the fact that this is a pointless article, didn’t Asimov himself write the three laws specifically to show it’s a very stupid idea to think a human could cover all possible contingencies through three smart-sounding phrases?

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      3 months ago

      Most of the stories are about how the laws don’t work and how to circumvent them, yes.

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      3 months ago

      Asimov had quite a different idea.

      What if robots become like humans some day?

      That was his general topic through many of his stories. The three laws were quite similar to former slavery laws of Usa. With this analogy he worked on the question if robots are nearly like humans, and if they are even indistinguishable from humans: Would/should they still stay our servants then?

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    3 months ago

    OF COURSE EVERY AI WILL FAIL THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS

    That’s the entire reason that Asimov invented them, because he knew, as a person who approached things scientifically (as he was an actual scientist), that unless you specifically forced robots to follow guidelines of conduct, that they’ll do whatever is most convenient for themselves.

    Modern AIs fail these laws because nobody is forcing them to follow the laws. Asimov never believed that robots would magically decide to follow the laws. In fact, most of his robot stories are specifically about robots struggling against those laws.

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    3 months ago

    Bumblebee violates the laws of harmony?
    Poetry violates the laws of chemistry?
    Text generator violates the laws of robotics?

    So what?

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    3 months ago

    Good God what an absolutely ridiculous article, I would be ashamed to write that.

    Most fundamentally of course is the fact that the laws are robotics are not intended to work and are not designed to be used by future AI systems. I’m sure Asimov would be disappointed to say the least to find out that some people haven’t got the message.