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There are many people who don't understand that AI can be a genuine threat to society. I've heard people like Steven Pinker claim that it's fanciful thinking th
by Kranar 4y ago
There are many people who don't understand that AI can be a genuine threat to society. I've heard people like Steven Pinker claim that it's fanciful thinking that AI could pose a threat.
I think these people have a classical view of AI, where an AI is a kind of expert system that follows a preset algorithm and kind of does what it's told in a predictable manner, but just does it in a very efficient and "intelligent" manner.
I don't think these people appreciate that the current trend in AI is not to create well understood expert systems, but instead to create systems trained on human data, including all of our hate, violence and also respect, love and compassion.
Perhaps for AI, love, compassion and respect will win out, and we can manage to continue keeping AI aligned so that it doesn't pose a threat to us in the future.
But maybe we can't.
- kleer001 4y agoI believe that humans, in general, will work towards their best interest and reduce their short term (if not long term) pain. Not all the time, not in everything. But, in the end, pain is not subjective. Sure, there's the myth of slow boiling a frog. But I've heard that doesn't actually work in real life. In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice they are not. IMHO the paperclip optimizer Ai "problem" is impossible. There's enough human hands at every step, in enough different locations, speaking enough different locations, with enough different personalizes to stop the proposed ridiculousness. Obviously Ai (not just Agi) is going to restructure how humans work. I just hope there's enough pain points that enough legislation is put into place to create a large enough safety net to catch the people who can't quickly adapt.