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"In the longer term, after DeepMind has worked its way through Warcraft, StarCraft, and the rest of the Blizzard Entertainment catalogue, the team’s goal is to
by danesparza 12y ago
"In the longer term, after DeepMind has worked its way through Warcraft, StarCraft, and the rest of the Blizzard Entertainment catalogue, the team’s goal is to build an A.I. system with the capability of a toddler. "
Wait ... what? You're going to teach this thing using violent video games? This seems like a bad plan...
- throwawaymsft 12y agoThe AI doesn't have a notion of "violence". There are goals and obstacles to that goal. Goal: Human health, obstacle: viruses. Goal: Clean energy, obstacle: friction, entropy, battery limitations There are concerns that humans might inadvertently become an obstacle to some greater goal, but training on Warcraft/Starcraft where you are "fighting" isn't special in this regard. In chess or you are battling your opponent too, "killing" their pieces, etc.
- puzzlingcaptcha 12y agoGoal: Make paperclips (http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer)
- higherpurpose 12y agoThen, they'll teach it to watch all the Terminator movies, you know...for science.