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I'm not so sure. Even prosaic, current AI, can be very unpredictable. See this blog post http://aiweirdness.com/post/172894792687/when-algorithms-surprise-us/am
by rhaps0dy 8y ago
I'm not so sure. Even prosaic, current AI, can be very unpredictable. See this blog post http://aiweirdness.com/post/172894792687/when-algorithms-surprise-us/amp http://aiweirdness.com/post/172894792687/when-algorithms-sur... , which is a somewhat more causal summary of this paper "The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities" https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453v2 https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453v2
The authors of the paper explain a bunch of anecdotes when they wanted the AI to do one thing, but the measure they told it to optimise for wasn't actually what they intended, and so unexpected things happened.
- emodendroket 8y agoThat's an amusing read, and sure, AI can do things we don't expect. I think we're more on the order of a bridge failure and less on the order of Skynet here, though. To end up in that kind of nightmare scenario we have to entrust some AI with capabilities we could just elect not to.