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Actually, @Houshalter, OpenAI has several purposes, and one of them is to address AI risk. You may not think that is an effective approach, but that is their st
by vonnik 11y ago
Actually, @Houshalter, OpenAI has several purposes, and one of them is to address AI risk. You may not think that is an effective approach, but that is their stated intent. They believe that the best hedge against the dangers of superintelligence is to conduct open research that encourages a multipolar world of several AGIs, rather a unipolar world where one company, such as Google, reaps the benefits and determines the course of such an advance. It's true that OpenAI accelerates AI research, which makes it paradoxical. But that's the nature of a hedge. You bet on both sides at once. I do believe that they will focus on solving meaningful problems (they are only a few weeks old...).
- Houshalter 11y ago>rather a unipolar world where one company, such as Google, reaps the benefits and determines the course of such an advance Yes that is their model of AI risk. However the people worried about AI risk are not worried about any single organization controlling AI. They are worried about a world where no one controls AI. Controlling AI is actually a very difficult and unsolved problem. OpenAI is not intended to solve that problem, and if anything they are making it far worse by accelerating AI research before the problem has been solved.
- argonaut 11y agoWhat do you mean by unsolved problem? Controlling AI is not even an actual problem at all yet. It's merely a hypothetical problem.