They’re not really being dishonest, per se. They’re just bullshitters spouting bullshit. They don’t care about true or false. Because the truth does not appear in the objective functions they are optimizing.
AI is capable of sounding exactly like middle managers. Some people think this means AI is sentient when it really means that middle management is not.
in hindsight, believing robots would be compulsively honest was a bit optimistic
They’re not really being dishonest, per se. They’re just bullshitters spouting bullshit. They don’t care about true or false. Because the truth does not appear in the objective functions they are optimizing.
Are we talking about AI or politicians here?
AI is capable of sounding exactly like middle managers. Some people think this means AI is sentient when it really means that middle management is not.
As a middle manager you are pretty much spot on, yeah