Comment by spwa4

3 days ago

That's going to be another big problem with AI. The same problem they have with developers.

Management: "We need to do X"

AI does X

Management: "It's not working"

AI: what do you mean? It does exactly what you asked.

Management: "I wanted it to do Y, and that's how you do it" (with Y having nothing to do with X whatsoever)

AI: ...

Management: I'm hiring the developers back ...

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hleszek  3 days ago

That has always been a thing since the invention of computers. The great thing about computers is that they do exactly what you ask them to do. The problem with computers is that they do exactly what you ask them to do.

  • enlightens  3 days ago

    from 1864:

    > On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

    https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage#:~:text=226-,P...