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We should be able to send robots into a fire, without a second thought. The robot should not feel any kind of suffering from the fire. Whoever owns the robot sh
by Geee 3y ago
We should be able to send robots into a fire, without a second thought. The robot should not feel any kind of suffering from the fire. Whoever owns the robot should decide how the robot should act. It may calculate the expected profit / cost of the action for the owner, but the owner should make the final decision.
Programming it to avoid setting things on fire is just programming; there's no need for emotions or other complex biological rewards functions which are hard to replicate in computers.
Engineering an agentic AI or a robot, i.e. a machine with independent will, is not a good idea at all, and shouldn't be pursued.
- ly3xqhl8g9 3y agoWe of course don't know how to engineer agency, but if we want black box top-down persuasion, how we train a dog without knowing how each neuron in the dog's brain works, some independent will may be required: you don't want to tell the robot how to fight each fire specifically (or train it on petabytes of fires just to have it stop in front of a shop called STOP [1]), you want to prove some general guidelines, and let it handle the actual cases itself. [1] Don't name your Store "Stop", https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/k56za3/dont_name_your_store_stop/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/k56za3/don...