[PaulHoule]

5 years ago we felt like we had to write programs that always get the right answer. We never realized that all it had to do was apologize and people wouldn’t mind.

Eliezer Yudkowsky is up in arms about it because it can bullshit better than he can and never has to take a break. It can replace the authors of The New York Times opinion page if not the actual reporters. Can it replace the CEO?

[temporarely]

Why not the presidency. Every four years there is a battle to fine tune the executive LLM, but a secret deep state controls the actual code running and so the LLM is modified to fake partisan fights.

p.s. only slightly tongue in cheek. Use of AI by state to manage social perception is on my bingo card. It will be very effective.

[tim333]

I've thought a bit about the practicality of using an LLM for a president type job. I think it could work ok with some manual override. You'd need documents with the plans and principles to follow but they'd be open source so the people could see what was going on, and if it said something silly the human leader could override but it would be public so the voters could see the LLM said do this but the humans said no that so you could keep tabs. It would make the process more open than the present system where politicians lie to get elected and then do other stuff behind closed doors.