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Our existing computing platforms are very specific and very limited. Without knowledge of that specific design and the accompanying limitations, how could you p
by readyplayeremma 4y ago
Our existing computing platforms are very specific and very limited. Without knowledge of that specific design and the accompanying limitations, how could you pre-craft a non-interactive "exploit" that could be executed by such a system? I do think that it becomes more possible if we have AGI-like systems doing detection and analysis, but we do not. In addition, any universal exploit against AGI systems would probably have to be universal enough to also affect human intelligence.
- godelski 4y agoFor a clearer example, there's a reason a virus that affects Windows doesn't affect Linux. Or a virus that affects Windows XP doesn't affect Windows 11. There are of course counter examples, but this is the trend. To understand why the counter examples exist requires expert knowledge (or rather that there are basically the same things running in the same way).
- edgyquant 4y agoWe are currently discussing exploits designs by foreign intelligences to infect artificially intelligent systems. We are not talking about privilege escalation on a Mac.
- stevenhuang 4y agoThat's where you're confused. The only one insisting the topic under discussion is the infection of AI systems (as opposed to classical computing systems) is you...
- edgyquant 4y agoExcept the proposed question was what if the signals were designed to only be detected by societies who’ve invented AI…
- stevenhuang 4y agoThe specific thread you are on is about current systems. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34729927 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34729927
- edgyquant 4y agoThese exploits act on the AI, not the hardware. I’m well aware of how human crafted exploits currently work.