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The constraints put on self-driving cars already show that we clearly expect machines to exceed human performances. We don't want an AI to show all the bias of
by Iv 7y ago
The constraints put on self-driving cars already show that we clearly expect machines to exceed human performances.
We don't want an AI to show all the bias of humans, we mostly don't care about the emotions, the struggle to remember things, the unreliability of memory, imperfect communication, survival instinct, bodily needs.
Our brain evolved to be able to survive, reproduce, be part of a fitter group. None of these parts of the loss function is useful in most AI problems.
We don't ask a robot to drive a forklift like humans do, we want it to be faster (better, stronger) and more precise. To not tire, to not make mistakes, to not bore, to not wonder about the meaning of life.
The more AI advance and the more we understand the human brain, the clearer it seems (to me at least) that the fact that we are able of rational thought at all is accidental to other specialties that our brain has (we struggle to add small numbers, but we have accelerated circuits to read emotions, pose, injuries).
We may want to learn a bit more about the way our social brain works, but for all the rational things, I suspect the way our brain works is pretty hacky.
- arethuza 7y agoI'm not convinced that we actually use "rational thought" very much - isn't there a theory that what we think of as "rational thought" is really a narrative constructed after the fact to explain our own deeper thought processes to ourselves in a very post-hoc fashion. I suspect this is why "old fashioned" symbolic AI floundered - it was trying to mechanise how we think we think (or rather how we used to think we think) rather than the actual underlying processes.
- renjimen 7y agoWouldn't you expect an AGI that can perform human-like actions also be able to exceed humans in speed, accuracy and recall, simply because it is not built of biological matter with evolutionary constraints on storage capacity, senses, size and longevity? I agree that we're going to expect the best qualities of a machine, with the best qualities of a human, but the more you push towards a human-like mind the more inherent human-like shortcomings will be introduced, but I envision these to be more in its decision making capacity.