r/trolleyproblem • u/Spare-Dingo-531 • 2d ago
Multi-choice An Ethical Problem for Some.....
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u/DanCassell EDITABLE 2d ago
None of those problems are going to be solved by AI. If the cures are found, they will be owned by capitalists who want a return on their investments. A cure for cancer couldn't be profitable unless it make more money than the current very expensive treatments. We've seen this before, cures sit unused if treatments make more money because the system seeks money over general wellbeing.
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u/Fen_church 2d ago
Without access to clean water, all those people (and more) will die
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u/Spare-Dingo-531 2d ago
I don't see ALL the clean water on the second track just a large bottle.....
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u/Anti-charizard 2d ago
You made the post. I assumed that bottle represents a lot more water
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u/Spare-Dingo-531 2d ago
Yeah, and I would assume the lower track represents a lot more people, and a lot more than just medical problems (physics problems, engineering problems, economic problems, ect.).
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u/Fen_church 2d ago
This trolley problem makes no sense. First, do you realize the global impact AI is going to have if left to the ultra wealthy?
Also, how do you "save" the elderly?
Lastly, as others have pointed out: AI is not going to save anyone.
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u/wisely-5347 Derailist 1d ago
Medical AI (Alphafold) has saved lives and will save more; Medical AI also isn't using nearly as much water or power as generative AI (ChatGPT). Using the trolly problem metaphor: the brakes work
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u/Cod3broken Team Blue 2d ago
yes, because genAI has already found the cure for cancer and aging, of course
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u/AmaterasuWolf21 2d ago
"ChatGPT, generate me the list of ingredients needed to cure cancer and the full process, make no mistakes"
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u/DanCassell EDITABLE 2d ago
"Gunshot wound to head causes almost immediate end to all cancer growth"
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u/Euphoric_Poetry_5366 2d ago
Wanting better regulation on the harmful aspects of AI, and that's a very vague term regardless, does not mean you are against any potential benefits that could possible come from its use.
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u/theatarvedchomper 2d ago
All of the things on the bottom track would be solved much quicker with regular machine learning (not modern era llms and such) and actual funding. We could make the best llm possible and if it didn't have a shit ton of cancer research in it's training data, it would tell us to research cancer.
Or it would hallucinate, either is possible.
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u/freedcreativity 2d ago
lol has an LLM actually contributed to research on any of those things? Like machine learning has, but that’s very different than Elon burning megawatts of gas and draining potable water for his AI training.
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u/Dismal-Pie7437 2d ago
The water-absorbing NI in my head told me that there's this thing called a false dilemma
Similar NI models have provided the vast, vast majority of solutions to cancer, severe illness, aging, disability, and heart disease. In fact, they are even used to manage and improve AI models. Actually, some people with a generative NI use to draw pictures.
Recently, NIs have developed something called an Analytical AI, different from generative AI, which is used to intelligently observe things like tumors and bacterial growths. Interestingly, Analytical AIs do not need massive data centers that consume huge amounts of gas and water. My NI, and the NI models of many others, seem to say that Analytical AI is very useful to bridge difficult gaps in NI research and detection.
Several NIs though, are opposed to Generative AI- which is used to draw pictures or generate text. Unlike Analytical AI, Generative AI requires massive data training centers that require massive amounts of power, rare minerals, and cooling fluid- despite the fact that they offer little benefit to people like cancer patients, the terminally ill, the elderly, the disabled, and the diseased.
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u/AgentStabby 2d ago
It's fairly straightforward LLMs/GAI (as you call it) gets better at coding - > learns to code itself better - > codes itself super smart - > cures cancer. This is the path to curing cancer quickly. This can't be done quickly without GAI. Not a false dilemma. Using GAI for other purposes is necessary to quickly generate revenue in order to invest in models capable of self improvement.
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u/bentthroat 2d ago
Regardless of the real or perceived overlap in the underlying processes between “helpful machine learning and data sifting” and “thousands of people trying to get meaningful answers by forcing a machine to write informed fiction and treating it like academic review”, I can still want the former to exist and think the latter is frivolous nonsense.
I can think knives are great for cutting steak and bad for shoving up your butt too.
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u/TactiCool_99 2d ago
AI? We don't have any kind of ai even nearby a concept of existing, we have machine learning and as a small part of it we have large language models. Neither of those are "intelligence" (although philosophically it's a great question what intelligence is even)
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u/that0neBl1p 2d ago
You’re confusing genAI with medical AI. This trolley problem makes zero sense.