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Well THAT support starts with the experimental records of Manhattan Project and fills a whole library. Support for current ML techniques being dangerous in that
by ifdefdebug 3y ago
Well THAT support starts with the experimental records of Manhattan Project and fills a whole library. Support for current ML techniques being dangerous in that sense are handwavy descriptions of what might well be science fiction for another 500 years.
- AstralStorm 3y agoWell, support for ML techniques being stupidly wrong is much bigger. It's the default state. Then there's some less support for them being misleadingly wrong, much more rarely. Science fiction Terminators it is not. Paperclip maximizers, however, yes. In fact it can be argued that a typical capitalist company is a variant of a paperclip maximizer and is a simple form of superhuman intelligence. Nick Bostrom invented that thought experiment. Start from there and go digging through AI safety research of which there are a few journals. Real life samples include 2010 flash crash, social media automatically optimizing for engagement at any cost, a few computer vision issues causing medical misdiagnosis, Tesla's "self-driving", video game AI exploiting engine bugs rather than playing, suddenly racist face recognition... And those are just mistakes, a malicious actor can do more with these. DARPA and IARPA have a whole damn wing on handling trojan attacks against ML systems. A superhuman, even weakly superhuman paperclip maximizer is an extremely dangerous thing. (Analyze climate change in this light...)