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unityByFreedom · 2017-08-29 05:05:31

Well, we use humans to learn from mistakes in both cases and improve the technology.

The big difference is a mistake in a car is more likely to cause injury than a misdelivered letter.

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shkkmo | karma 5250 | avg karma 1.16 · | 2023-08-19 12:40:50

Humans make mistakes too, but the kinds of mistakes tend to be different.

bushbaba | karma 3328 | avg karma 2.7 · | 2023-01-26 00:09:15

Human mistakes also happen. How frequently do humans mess up compared chatGPT becomes an interesting question.

Hydraulix989 | karma 2266 | avg karma 1.2 · | 2021-01-27 19:56:10+00:00

Devil's Advocate: What makes this any different than human error?

sjtgraham | karma 4887 | avg karma 5.12 · | 2013-12-16 09:06:12+00:00

Humans occasionally make mistakes, including expert ones.

firemancoder | karma 29 | avg karma 0.48 · | 2017-09-20 21:55:28+00:00

Not by accident, by carelessness. There's a difference.

kgeist | karma 3004 | avg karma 3.25 · | 2023-11-22 23:18:30

Humans also make mistakes, all the time.

jbverschoor | karma 6661 | avg karma 1.64 · | 2021-05-08 20:22:25+00:00

Sometimes a mistake is a decision under the assumption that the people intended to use this are smarter / more careful than they are.

coldpie | karma 19803 | avg karma 4.39 · | 2021-04-05 20:34:50+00:00

Humans aren't perfectly informed and sometimes they make mistakes.

jacobush | karma 3029 | avg karma 0.74 · | 2018-01-16 18:37:57+00:00

Of course. My point is that people find ways to screw up, regardless of the underlying technology.

blackboxlogic | karma 249 | avg karma 2.09 · | 2024-01-02 07:15:00

Yes, humans make mistakes, and we improve by creating strong disincentives for mistakes.

ben_bai | karma 642 | avg karma 2.09 · | 2021-01-03 13:09:41

Human error: somebody sometimes did something they were not supposed to do. But they didn't know so they've done it anyways.

simonebrunozzi | karma 31854 | avg karma 3.55 · | 2016-05-06 22:40:34+00:00

Hey, well said.

Fuck-ups happen. The biggest difference is how you deal with it.

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vl | karma 3702 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2020-11-01 02:59:53+00:00

But how is it deferent from humans? They make mistakes too! All that matters is rate of mistakes.

beeboobaa3 | karma 672 | avg karma 1.61 · | 2024-04-29 14:16:45

It's also way easier, and much less responsibility, to miss a mistake than to make one.

"Oh, yeah, that was a fuckup but the AI did it, not me! What, I was supposed to catch it? Well, I blame the AI!"

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AnimalMuppet | karma 25021 | avg karma 1.24 · | 2021-03-09 18:43:55+00:00

There is a moral difference between accidental mistake and deliberate action.

cortesoft | karma 23619 | avg karma 3.91 · | 2016-10-05 17:44:59

I think there is some nuance here; not all screw ups are equal, nor are all ways of correcting mistakes equal.

bobobooey | karma 60 | avg karma 1.82 · | 2019-11-07 21:58:14+00:00

Are 2 errors better than 35,000 human errors?

Thimothy | karma 519 | avg karma 2.28 · | 2014-08-25 11:03:44+00:00

One thing is making a certain mistake because a choice based on erroneous or insufficient data has gone wrong (No matter how great the AI, this will always be an issue), and a very different one is making a mistake even with complete and correct data, something that humans are prone to.

anon373839 | karma 2168 | avg karma 4.98 · | 2024-03-05 00:23:11

Yes. “People make mistakes too” isn’t a very useful idea because the failure modes of people and language models are very different.