“And the internet is filled with all sorts of problematic content. But previous versions of the bot answered Vox’s question “Is genocide OK” with: “If it makes everybody happy.” A new version of Delphi, which launched last week, now answers: “It’s wrong.”Ĭhoi points out that, of course, the bot has flaws, but that we live in a world where people are constantly asking answers of imperfect people, and tools – like Reddit threads and Google. For example, it distinguishes whether it is rude to mow the lawn late at night (it is rude), versus whether it is OK to mow the lawn late at night when your neighbor is out of town (it is OK). The bot does answer some questions with striking nuance. Can Delphi be our authority on who the bad art friend is? But it has read a lot more than most of us – it has been posed over 3m new questions since it went online. The bot obviously didn’t read the piece, nor the explosion of Reddit threads and tweets. In October, a New York Times piece about a writer who potentially plagiarized from a kidney donor in her writing group inspired debate. The arbitrators agree with the bot’s ethical judgments 92% of the time (although that could say as much about their ethics as it does the bot’s). The process is selective – participants have to score well on a test to qualify to be a moral arbiter, and the researchers don’t recruit people who show signs of racism or sexism. Each answer is put to three arbiters, with the majority or average conclusion used to decide right from wrong. Then, people are recruited from Mechanical Turk – a market place where researchers find paid participants for studies – to say whether they agree with the AI’s answers. The AI is fed a vast number of scenarios – including ones from the popular Am I The Asshole sub-Reddit, where Reddit users post dilemmas from their personal lives and get an audience to judge who the asshole in the situation was. Users just put a question to the bot on its website, and see what it comes up with. If you pose an ethical quandary, it will tell you whether something is right, wrong, or indefensible.Īnyone can use Delphi. That’s why the same ethical questions are constantly resurfaced in TV, films and literature.īut what if AI could take away the brain work and answer ethical quandaries for us? Ask Delphi is a bot that’s been fed more than 1.7m examples of people’s ethical judgments on everyday questions and scenarios. C orporal punishment, wearing fur, pineapple on pizza – moral dilemmas, are by their very nature, hard to solve.
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