#defining the problem

[shy-girl04]

Defining the Problem

I can't forgive you. Even if I could,

You wouldn't pardon me for seeing through you.

And yet I cannot cure myself of love

For what I thought you were before I knew you.

Wendy Cope

[randombookquotes]

defining the problem, from the orange and other poems- wendy cope

[evenasmallcough]

DEFINING THE PROBLEM by Wendy Cope

I can’t forgive you. Even if I could, You wouldn’t pardon me for seeing through you. And yet I cannot cure myself of love For what I thought you were before I knew you.

[impromptu-manifesto]

Wendy Cope, Defining the Problem

[simslibraryofpoetry]

I can't forgive you. Even if I could, / You wouldn't pardon me for seeing through you. / And yet I cannot cure myself of love / For what I thought you were before I knew you.

— Wendy Cope, from "Defining the Problem," in Serious Concerns

[jphoff2024]

Defining the Problem Of Capital Punishment

Capital punishment has been debated in the United States for a very long time. The death penalty all depends on your circumstance, such as what state you live in, what lawyers you have, and most notably, your skin color. Your location plays a massive role in what type of punishment you get. You may commit a heinous crime and get life in prison, but another may do a lesser offense and get the death penalty. According to American Civil Liberties Union, in the past 22 years, over 173 inmates on death row have been found innocent and set free. So, is this a problem?

Link to more information: https://www.aclu.org/issues/capital-punishment

[6peaches]

Wendy Cope - Defining the Problem

I can't forgive you. Even if I could, You wouldn't pardon me for seeing through you. And yet I cannot cure myself of love For what I thought you were before I knew you.

[tartlette1968]

AI Framing the problem is the Problem...

Or, more correctly, badly framing the problem.

AI does not have an imagination. AI exerts minimal effort to solve a problem, so if you give it a problem to solve, it will solve it in an unexpected way.

So they gave an AI the task of playing "Connect 4" with a human on an infinite board. When it was the turn of the AI, after the human had placed their piece, it placed it's first piece so far away from the human's first piece that the human's computer would crash, and the AI would win, by forfeit.

This seems sinister, aggressive, and unfair, but the AI had none of these qualities, it just completed the quest, "To win" in the simplest way it could.

What this reminded me of was an X-Files episode.

Mulder finds a Genie who grants him three wishes. Mulder knows, immediately, what his first wish is, and says, "Oh, I know what to wish for."

The Genie cautions him, "Don't. Please don't."

But Fox's first wish is for World Peace.

Suddenly the world outside his apartment is dead quiet.

"Why is it so quiet, now?"

"Because you wished for world peace."

Fox finds out he's the only one left alive on the entire planet, because the Genie knows that's the only way for world peace to exist, without conflict or disputes.

"I warned you. They always wish for world peace, they always wish for the wrong things," the Genie says, a little sadly.

Without hesitation, Fox wishes to undo his first wish.

AI is like the Genie. If we are to give it a quest, we have to very clearly and tightly refine and restrict the parameters of what AI is allowed to do. Because we can't leave it up to AI to be human.

You can definitely use AI to augment and tweak and twist your own art without stealing from other pieces or artists. But you do end up with objects that look like chairs, with two legs, or humans that have four arms and no mouth, or something that isn't quite a cat. It's awful, but in a precise AI kind of way.

Or you can task AI with giving you a springboard to start a story.

But drive a car? Well, we don't quite know how to define "Drive a car" precisely enough for AI to drive a car without endangering us. But it's getting there.

AI is dangerous, but not because it's smarter than us. It's not. But because we're not quite smart enough for it.