He compared this contradiction to Douglas Adams's self-eating cow.
The fact that I remain committed to the "normal technology" perspective for understanding AI's economic impacts doesn't mean I can't appreciate how profoundly weird it is to use AI on a day-to-day basis. Agents are designed behave and interact in a humanlike way, yet "happily" accept endless amounts of grunt work, which often reminds me of Douglas Adams' "cow that wants to be eaten".
Users find the idea of humanlike AI agents pretending to happily perform grunt work that humans hate deeply unsettling because it simulates positive emotions for undesirable tasks.
@random_walker Haha, damn I'm going to start doing AI leadership, start paying them in tokens.
@random_walker See this by @dioscuri for a few other relevant literary characters (like Dobby from Harry Potter), and the "Willing Servants" problem: https://www.polytropolis.com/p/the-house-elf-problem It's a somewhat uncomfortable thought, but Hinton's baby mother probably also belongs into this category
@random_walker theres something deeply unsettling about watching an AI pretend to be happy about performing a task humans hate doing
He compared this contradiction to Douglas Adams's self-eating cow.
The fact that I remain committed to the "normal technology" perspective for understanding AI's economic impacts doesn't mean I can't appreciate how profoundly weird it is to use AI on a day-to-day basis. Agents are designed behave and interact in a humanlike way, yet "happily" accept endless amounts of grunt work, which often reminds me of Douglas Adams' "cow that wants to be eaten".