The first risk is that they may start doing unwanted tasks (e.g. I ask them to run a marketing campaign for me, and the agents decide to spam everyone, manipulate people, hack into computers, etc)
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Untested Abilities and Emergent Phenomena in Scaling Large Language Models
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2C. Since we haven't tested all possible abilities, we don't know the full range of abilities that have emerged in large language models.
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Robot Manufacturers Need Same Liability as Car Makers
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"The manufacturer of a robot should have exactly the same amount of responsibility as the manufacturer of a car." E.g. if a car/robot deployment has a braking malfunction and causes harm, prepare to recall it. And there is a risk of lawsuits.
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LLM Limitations: Reality vs Hype and Unrealistic Expectations
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1/3 As companies hand tweak LLM based systems to cover published failures those who want to believe in a new super being get more and more sucked in. I use LLMs daily, but that are not atall what many people want them to be, nor what they assume will come just around the corner.
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Clearview AI scraped billions of images for police facial recognition
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Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up' US police have used the database nearly a million times, the company's CEO told the BBC. https://
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Artificial Intelligence Risks: Bias and Racism
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Risks of artificial intelligence: scientific, cognitive and racist bias #BeAware #ArtificialIntelligence #Risks
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Artificial Intelligence Risks: Generating False Fake Data
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Artificial Intelligence Risks: The Ability to Generate Incorrect Fake Data #Beware #ArtificialIntelligence #Risks
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Developer Responsibility for Autonomous AI Agent Actions
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A reminder to folks playing around with BabyAGI and AutoGPT, from a roboticist. Using it to retrieve information is one thing. But if you are actually coding it to DO THINGS and take action on the world, *you* are ultimately responsible for its actions.
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ChatGPT Bots Enable New AI Experiment Possibilities
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I saw this and realize with all the ChatGPT bots, an "experiment" could already happen https://
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Building Proactive Defenses Against Rogue AI Systems
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I don’t want to stop the development of AI. But I think we need to build proactive defense against rogue AI, just like we build antivirus and firewall SW.