The majority of U.S. adults don’t believe the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh the risks, according to a new Mitre-Harris Poll released Tuesday.

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    1 year ago

    Atomic bomb are also dangerous because if someone end up launching one by mistake, all hell is gonna break loose. This has almost happened multiple times:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

    We’ve just been lucky so far.

    And then there are questionable state leaders who may even use them willingly. Like Putin, or Kim, maybe even Trump.

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      …and the development and use of nuclear power has been one of the most important developments in civil infrastructure in the last century.

      Nuclear isn’t categorically free from the potential to harm, but it can also do a whole hell of a lot for humanity if used the right way. We understand it enough to know how to use it carefully and safely in civil applications.

      We’ll probably get to the same place with ML… eventually. Right now, everyone’s just throwing tons of random problems at it to see what sticks, which is not what one could call responsible use - particularly when outputs are used in a widespread sense in production environments.