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Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI [with physical violence] for better results (www.theregister.com)

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: So much for buttering up ChatGPT with 'Please' and 'Thank you'

Google co-founder Sergey Brin claims that threatening generative AI models produces better results.

"We don't circulate this too much in the AI community – not just our models but all models – tend to do better if you threaten them … with physical violence," he said in an interview last week on All-In-Live Miami. [...]

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So which sickfuck CEO is trying to figure out how to make an AI feel pain?

[–] KernelTale@programming.dev -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's literally impossible

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Impossible now or do you mean never? Pain is only electricity and chemical reactions.

[–] KernelTale@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Never with the current technology. It would have to be something completely different.