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It will almost certainly lead to more drugs...whether those drugs help actual patients live longer or better is the important question.

• tines 5y ago
  It would make for a great dystopian novel where someone gives an AI the goal to "help actual patients live longer" and it does that in typical AI fashion, by putting people in eternal stasis or manually keeping their blood flowing so that they are technically "alive" but living in a nightmare. Metric achieved! In general I think that AI is a genie that will interpret your wishes in the worst way possible to achieve your goal. If you're specific enough then great. But it's hard to know whether you were or not until the genie is out of the bottle.
  • dudus 5y ago
    That's typical Terminator FUD. That's not how AI works. That's not how any of this works.
    • tines 5y ago
      I don't think you understand what I meant. If you take AI to mean the technology we currently have, then there are plenty of times when optimizers will cheat at a game to achieve the best metrics. Just recently I read where a Tetris AI, tasked with making the game last as long as possible, just paused the game. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about: humans underspecifying goals, and a machine learning algorithm exploiting the specification to achieve the goal.
      • TchoBeer 5y ago
        To be clear, it paused the game when it was about to lose, it still played normal Tetris
        • tines 5y ago
          I don't think that diminishes the point though.