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How do you make an AGI smart enough to be helpful but not so smart that it gets cynical and figures "what's the point of helping these dummies anyway?" Kind of

• dropit_sphere 6y ago
  Keep going, and make it smart enough to realize life without helping people is without meaning.
  • zxcmx 6y ago
    The specificity conditions around "people" are hard. Loneliness and purpose in service are not enough. Most people, I think, want a deeply species-ist AI. It has to want to help humans. Not exclude us from planets to make room for uplifting dolphins or defect by spawning more machine intelligences. I think that condition is hard to meet while also counting future-humans who might look more like aliens or software than the humans of today. I believe the rational solution would be a benevolent AI that values all life, the problem being that it wouldn't necessarily always work in "our" interests.
• joegibbs 6y ago
  Since we’re programming it, we could probably just modify it so that it really enjoys doing work for us, no matter how menial the work is - a lot like the genetically engineered cow in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that wants to be eaten.
  • Alekhine 6y ago
    Wouldn't that be a kind of slavery? Creating AGI would mean creating a new kind of sentient life. Is it not entitled to rights merely because it's artificial? And if that argument doesn't interest you because of AGI's massive utility, then how about this: If Superman were born tomorrow, and we put implants in his brain that made him really, really love America, apple pie, and basically do whatever we want, how would you feel?