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Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? The effort to give robots AI brains is revealing big practical challenges—and bigger ethical concerns (www.scientificamerican.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

As usual, wildly overblown title.

Basically all the article actually says is that they want to use ChatGPT to be able to formulate recipes out of ingredients. I guess that's a handy use for LLMs, but it's not like they're driving the robot or doing anything crazy. It's a weird crutch for planning.

How the fuck they want to spin this as an ethical concern is beyond me. Unless they just mean "well now we're stealing everyone's recipes they've posted online".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think, it's an mixture:

Clickbait
Some ethicans want to do an important role
Hollywood movies and so on have teached us so. What could be a better source of informations to build owns worldview on it?
Some writers hope to creat a social enviroment in which the discussion to ban the new technology starts in order to keep the jobs in their industry.
Some political figures want to outlaw AI and found peoples and groups which are against it.

Maybe, the last point is not true at all. And the named writers, of cource, arn't full aware of their agency. Its, as often, more on a emotional ground.