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Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (20 children)

"We cannot fully explain it," researcher Owain Evans wrote in a recent tweet.

They should accept that somebody has to find the explanation.

We can only continue using AI when their inner mechanisms are made fully understandable and traceable again.

Yes, it means that their basic architecture must be heavily refactored. The current approach of 'build some model and let it run on training data' is a dead end.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

A comment that says "I know not the first thing about how machine learning works but I want to make an indignant statement about it anyway."

[–] [email protected] -5 points 13 hours ago

I have known it very well for only about 40 years. How about you?

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