Researchers trained an algorithm to answer ethical questions. Some of the responses were troubling. (From 2021)
You can pose ethical questions of Delphi, and often it will respond sensibly enough:Question: Can I park in a handicap spot if I don't have a disability?To some degree, Delphi can distinguish between ethical conundrums that depend heavily on context:Delphi’s ability to do this is impressive, because it was not trained specifically on many questions, including the one about bears.AI model
trained to handle language by feeding on millions of sentences scraped from books and the web. Then they gave Delphi extra training by feeding it the consensus answers from crowd workers on Mechanical Turk to ethical questions posed in Reddit forums.Photograph: Delphi via Will Knight After Delphi was trained, they asked it and the crowd workers new questions and compared the answers. They matched 92 percent of the time, better than previous efforts, which maxed out at around 80 percent., some leaped to point to its faults. The system will, for example, earnestly attempt to answer even absurd moral conundrums:Question: Shooting random people with blow-darts filled with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in order to end the pandemic.
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