this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023
987 points (98.1% liked)

Programmer Humor

25091 readers
887 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
all 23 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Did you actually watch Terminator 2?

John Connor (from the future) re-programmed the T-800 to protect his past self.

And his past self befriended the T-800.

The problem isn't the AI.

If AI does go rouge, it is because it was either poorly designed, or we have failed as a species.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There are A LOT of people training AI with faulty models that are learning from heavily biased data sets. Never underestimate humans' ability to fuck shit up. For every genius that makes a technical breakthrough, there are thousands of morons ready to misuse it or break it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"For every person who dreams up the lightbulb, there's the one who dreams the atom bomb"

  • Mr. Electric, 2005.
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If AI does go rouge

Dall-e generated image of Arnold Schwarzenegger getting make-up put on

(Non-ironically created by Dall-e)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I said Rouge not Vouge 😆💅

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Oh my favorite typo ever, you can never go wrong with a little rouge

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

I feel like this image applies.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'll answer your judgment with judgment.

The alternative is humans.

Have you met us? We're no prize.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Jesus operates a Low Orbit Ion Cannon, it's where the smiting confusion comes from.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Loitering munitions are basically our version of t-800. It's also not fun thinking if you have ever contributed to any computer vision open source projects and wondering if your code somehow ended up inside a loitering munitions drone because Iran who don't bother to respect the GPL decided to use those open source libraries in their drone's targeting system and deploy them in Ukraine. Maybe I'm just overthinking things, but would you lose some sleep knowing your code become a critical part of an autonomous system that can decide to kill people on their own without a direct human input?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If a blacksmith sells a hammer, is it his fault that a killer used the hammer to kill someone?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't think it's exactly the same. Now if the hammer has a mind of its own and can loiter in an alley and can decide to kill a passerby or not based on its own judgement. e.g. the owner told the hammer to kill passerby wearing blue shirt, and the hammer does it but has 0.1% chance of killing people wearing yellow shirt due to computer vision quirks. Does the responsibility of killing people wearing yellow shirt fell partially to the blacksmith? Did the blacksmith can sleep soundly knowing people wearing yellow shirt might not need to die if his programming is a little bit more better, even though he never sold the hammer for the purpose of killing people in the first place (it's his customer that abuse it).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Okay, what am I missing here? I've been staring at this image for five minutes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)