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Just had a strange thought. Say a sufficiently advanced AI agent is trained in Minecraft with the pixels on the screen as the only raw input (its 'eyes') and t
by 2bitencryption 11y ago
Just had a strange thought.
Say a sufficiently advanced AI agent is trained in Minecraft with the pixels on the screen as the only raw input (its 'eyes') and then trained to do simple tasks like building houses or hunting for rabbits.
Eventually, to us, these in-game players will seem to reason and 'think' about their world.
...which in my mind grants a few points to the "the universe is a computer simulation" paradox/thought experiment/theory.
- argonaut 11y agoUnfortunately, the "wishful thinking" (e.g. wild speculation) step in the thought experiment is the "eventually" step.
- facepalm 11y agoYou might enjoy the book "Vehicles" by Valentio Braitenberg
- infinite8s 11y agoOr Permutation City by Greg Egan.
- tragomaskhalos 11y agoYou could let it run for a while, and then put up a sign in the world saying "This is God speaking: bad news pal, you're actually a bit of Python running on some kid's laptop".
- hacker_9 11y agoThey did do this with DeepMind [1], before they pointed it at Go. Simple 2d games though, like Space Invaders. They said 3d games would be their next phase after Go. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePv0Fs9cGgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePv0Fs9cGgU