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Most of them I would not call crazy, but relying on poor assumptions.
by c_crank 3y ago
Most of them I would not call crazy, but relying on poor assumptions.
- simonh 3y agoThe fact that AI alignment is not yet a solved problem, and according to AI safety researchers we don’t have a clear path to solving it, is not an assumption. Further I don’t think that worrying about that in the context of possible super intelligent general AI is poor reasoning.
- c_crank 3y agoAI safety researchers are prone to making wild and spurious claims about what a superintelligent AI is capable of, often relying on scenarios from science fiction or very out there fields of physics to try and get people to pay heed to their ideas. If I had a dime for every time 'possible human extinction' was brought up...
- sverona 3y agoAI alignment is the closest thing to an unsolvable problem I've ever seen.