alt Hacker NewsHumans aren’t any better. That’s why we have OSHA etc. I think you’re hoping for a formal logic based AI and I’ll wager no such thing will ever exist - and if it do, it would try to kill us all.
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jmalicki • today at 3:36 PM
Formal logic AI systems have existed and were popular in the 1980s. One of the problems is that they don't work - in the real world there are no firm facts, everything is squishy, and when you try to build a large system you end up making tons of exceptions for special cases until it becomes completely untenable.
Non-deterministic systems that work probabilistically are just superior in function to that, even if it makes us all deeply uncomfortable.
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> Humans aren’t any better
We're different.
People have fairly consistent faults. LLMs are nondeterministic even in terms of how they fail. A high value human resource can be counted on to deliver. That, imho, is in fact one of the primary roles of good management: putting the right person in the appropriate position.
Process engineering has worked to date because both the human and mechanical components of a system fail in predictable ways and we can try to remedy that. This is the golden bug of the current crop of "AI".