Comment by pousada
7 hours ago
I think in science fiction it’s one of the most common themes for the talking computer to be utterly horribly wrong, often resulting in complete annihilation of all life on earth.
Unless I have been reading very different science fiction I think it’s definitely not that.
I think it’s more the confidence and seeming plausibility of LLM answers
People are literally taking Black Mirror storylines and trying to manifest them. I think they did a `s/dys/u/` and don't know how to undo it...
They codysld start by trying to dysndo it.
I'm sorry. That was a terrible joke.
In terms of mass exposure, you're probably talking things like Cmdr Data from Star Trek, who was very much on the 'infallible' end of the fictional AI spectrum.
Data was also famous for getting things embarrassingly wrong, particularly when interacting with his human colleagues.
Sure, but this failure mode is not that. "AI will malfunction and doom us all" is pretty far from "AI will malfunction by sometimes confabulating stuff".
The stories I read had computers being utterly horribly right, which resulted in attempts (sometimes successful) at annihilate humanity.