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> The decisive moment for AI will come when a program can run a corporation better than humans. That's not an unreasonable near-term achievement. A corporation
by cwyers 6y ago
> The decisive moment for AI will come when a program can run a corporation better than humans. That's not an unreasonable near-term achievement. A corporation is a system for maximizing a well-defined metric. Maximizing a well-defined metric is what machine learning systems do well.
Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
As soon as an AI CEO starts trying to maximize a single, well-defined metric, the humans working there will start finding ways to satisfy that metric at the expense of everything else. There is no single mesaure, no matter how well-defined, that will remain a good measure in perpetuity as long as humans are capable of interpreting it in the light of their own self-interest.
- narag 6y agoHow about profit as a well-defined metric?
- throwaway2048 6y agoPlenty of examples of corporations run into the ground in the name of profit
- narag 6y agoIn the name is not the same as having profits.
- throwaway2048 6y agoNeither is having something as a goal and achieving it
- narag 6y agoA metric is supposed to be applied to results.
- umvi 6y agoYou can also make crappy decisions that increase profit in the short term but burn out your employees and run the company into the ground in the long term.
- narag 6y agoI didn't say "short term profits".