madrox

I think it funny how much average engineers are beginning to discover the challenges of engineering leadership and program management. This has always been the bottleneck. It's why managers and P…

A warrant is not required for an AMBER alert, which amounts to poor man's mass surveillance of license plates. We're basically fine with an incredibly intrusive push notification to get peop…

As trying things go, it doesn’t seem that crazy of an idea. I imagine air traffic control would even make for a pretty fun video game.

I don’t find that funny at all. AI didn’t invent the problem of balancing profit motives with ethical guard rails. I wouldn’t be surprised if many AI ethics responsibilities move to legal in the futur…

I am not in the AI ethics field, but I've watched multiple tech-adjacent disciplines that say "that's what engineering and product are for" get subsumed by engineering and product,…

This reminds me of when systems administration rebranded to devops

I think it interesting that Bakalar was at Meta for six years before joining OpenAI. A lot changed across the industry in those six years, and in the meantime I wouldn't be surprised if all Bakal…

Maybe if I put it that way there'd be less controversy in the replies

I find that hard to believe. Between AI doomerism and the drama at Google years ago between some researchers and Jeff Dean alone you can get at least 500 pages.

I don't really have any particular disdain for AI ethics. I think the field is changing from one of high theory to high application. People good at one are not usually good at the other, and says…

I don't see either of those as reasons not to train on it. Training isn't zero sum. You don't need to take something out to train ethics, and whether you explicitly train it or not, mod…

I agree, and I don't think many first wave AI ethicists would be on board with that, which is why the field is in for a rude awakening for the next few years if not already.

> What does AI ethics even mean? This, I think, is the question at the core of of the field right now. Five years ago it was highly hypothetical. Today, not so much. I'll be curious to see wha…

I agree, which is a different job from what I expect most AI ethicists imagined it would be.

I was specifically thinking of Candide. A bunch of coddled people thinking we're in the best timeline suddenly subjected to harsh realities.

Because leaving that to emergent behavior is silly. Why is the idea of training models on ethical reasoning so strange?

The ethicists who see their job as publishing papers and acting as philosophy professors, sure, but someone has to own the training and eval suite for how AI thinks about trolley problems.

"Prove" is a shorthand because of course it's a stochastic process. My point is that I would expect ethics to be part of the training and eval criteria.

Microsoft Tay has entered the chat. I'm kind of surprised by the cynicism. There are real problems in AI ethics that contribute to model training. Someone has to own those problems. How that team…

In five years, I'd love to read a book about the history of AI ethics. I suspect it will read like Voltaire. My sense is that it is radically shifting from a fluffy marketing arm to a department …

When crypto rage was at its peak and people had done math to figure out precisely the energy impact it had, people were up in arms about how much it used. I tried to point out that we're only tal…

It is dangerous to admire or despise anyone for who they are; it's ok to say someone did something good or bad.

This is poorly written with an unclear outcome. This starts as talking about how to make 1:1s more productive. It ends with, I must presume though it is unclear, losing a lease with no backup. This is…

We've been talking about taste for a year now as it relates to AI, so I'm going to counterpoint it: if competitors can reproduce your features, UX, and visual decisions within days, your tas…

I think there’s a lot to that. Hollywood is very relationship driven.

Arguably everyone was. Certainly no one was doing it for the money. I suspect there is a myth among most people that executives -- especially Hollywood ones -- didn't get to that position by bein…

Tangential to this, I worked in Hollywood for a while. The studio I worked at had a gaggle of unpaid interns. There was a mix of normal kids and the sons/daughters of prominent Hollywood execs. I…

I am, mostly, aligned with the author here, though I don't think that talking to AI about how to not get caught for killing your wife is really going all the way in. Going all the way in is talki…