Inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, Google wrote a ‘Robot Constitution’ to make sure its new AI droids won’t kill us::AutoRT, a data gathering AI system for robots, has safety prompts inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics that it applies while deciding what task to attempt.
Yeah, I’ve heard this one before.
‘We Promise To Not Be Evil’,…unless it gets in the way of profit some years from now…
Embrace Goodness, Extend Goodness,… Extinguish Goodness
Fooled us once… We won’t get fooled again.
We won’t get fooled again.
Oh yes, we will.
Because “we” is the general public, who has made google rich. Why wouldn’t they=we repeat the stupidity? What should have changed?
It was sort of a play on the old quote:
"There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once,…shame on— shame on you— fool me can’t get fooled again’
—Bush
And a mixing of Who lyrics.
basically implying that I am a fool, we are fools, we will fool ourselves, and get fooled again.
Me: Spending hours upon hours with me and my friends playing around on what was then called “GOOG-411”, training early language models that would then eventually years later become part of the reason Google Assistant was so ahead of its time.
Looking upon with shame years later; the massive push by everyone half-way familiar with a computer pushed everyone else to switch to Google Chrome Browser.
Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics are a plot device in a fiction book that are designed to initially look good and then fail spectacularly. Not sure they are the best to base your Robot Constitution on.
The inspiration is just having programmed guard rails, not the actual three laws.
“You can’t say the N word, but if whites go to war with browns, you know who to shoot at.”
This looks like meaningless PR to try and scoop up a little AI anxiety attention and feed their “don’t be evil” brand narrative.
“Constitution”? What has been constituted? Are they a sovereign nation now? Did they get land? If so, I’d also like to get some land for free!!
Until it hits directive 4 like in Robocop
- “Serve the public trust”
- “Protect the innocent”
- “Uphold the law”
- “Any attempt to arrest a senior officer of OCP results in shutdown” (Listed as [Classified] in the initial activation)
- make people watch ads
- give all the money to Google
Nice constitution.
One small issue.
We are inside your homes.
Meanwhile in the Pentagon: ‘Autonomous drones you say…’
Lets define “us” now,
Anyone who’s read anything at all about x-risk knows that this is bullshit
If only the companies seeking to profit on this boom were actually focused on alignment.
Relevant Ryan George: https://youtu.be/Lb16CEhqDnw
