• Fisk400
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    10 months ago

    Humans go rouge, programs are broken. Stop using humanizing terms for algoritms.

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      10 months ago

      “Gone rogue” just means to behave in an unexpected way - a very common occurrence when I write software.

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        10 months ago

        You should stop using humanizing terms for algorithms.

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          10 months ago

          To convince me of that you may want to explain how it’s a humanizing term, for starters.

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            10 months ago

            Rogue is a type of person and going rogue has the same etymology. We have lots off expressions that ascribes living qualities to inert things and that is fine. It is a very human thing to do. But in the field of AI we need to be very firm in what AI is.

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              10 months ago

              Okay, I grant that the term “rogue” is commonly used with a human aspect to it. Are you suggesting that by using a word about humans to describe the non-human algorithms that may make people misunderstand what is the AI we’re talking about?