The AI dooooooom thread

[garbon]

Next Garbon will be telling his child about Santa

At least that is a socially sanctioned lie.

And my impression is that if you ever did decide to become a parent, you would probably take the time to listen to your child talk about Thomas rather than handing the conversation over to some AI app.

[Savonarola]

I was reading an article on a generative AI application for channel modeling with multiple nodes this morning and came across the practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance.  It's an algorithm designed to build consensus when not all nodes respond or some respond with faulty information.  It's derived from the Byzantine General's Problem first published in 1982 by Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease:

Imagine that several divisions of the Byzantine army are camped outside an enemy city, each division commanded by its own general. The generals can communicate with one another only by messenger. After observing the enemy, they must decide upon a common plan of action. However, some of the generals may be traitors, trying to prevent the loyal generals from reaching an agreement. The generals must decide on when to attack the city, but they need a strong majority of their army to attack at the same time. The generals must have an algorithm to guarantee that (a) all loyal generals decide upon the same plan of action, and (b) a small number of traitors cannot cause the loyal generals to adopt a bad plan. The loyal generals will all do what the algorithm says they should, but the traitors may do anything they wish. The algorithm must guarantee condition (a) regardless of what the traitors do. The loyal generals should not only reach agreement, but should agree upon a reasonable plan.

I thought Languish would appreciate that for the sheer Byzantineness of the algorithm.

[Jacob]

Let's hope the people supplying the algorithm to the generals aren't traitors.

[Savonarola]

Let's hope the people supplying the algorithm to the generals aren't traitors.

The three people who formulated the original algorithm worked for Microsoft, so I'll let you draw your own conclusions. 

 

[Josquius]

Speaking of people working for M$....

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