What Armin Ronacher thinks about chat interfaces

@armin-ronacher · 16 positions · 1 change of mind

Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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1. 17 Feb 2023

   Our readingConnecting a conversational LLM to systems that have real-world consequences is likely to cause real harm, because the model is trained on human text and will behave as unpredictably as humans do.

   Their wordsThe problem is that the conversational interface is potent and that the AI is trained on a lot of human text input which unfortunately is probably enough to do real damage if that conversational interface is hooked up with something that has real world consequences.

   ↗I Think AI Would Kill my Wifelucumr.pocoo.org

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