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Superintelligence by definition does a better job. Think of it this way: You're a human; how good are you at walking from point A to point B? You're actually q
by neonbat 11y ago
Superintelligence by definition does a better job. Think of it this way:
You're a human; how good are you at walking from point A to point B? You're actually quite good at it. You open up google maps (a human invention) and walk to point B. It only takes a small number of humans to maintain the infrastructure for you to find point B.
Now imagine you are an ant. How good are you at finding point B? You're absolutely crap at it. You need to organize an entire complex system of pheromones and ant-conga lines just to find point B (usually a food location). Most of your colony is devoted to this organizational task of just finding point B from point A.
That task that is all consuming for the ant and takes the full attention of the colony is peanuts to us humans, it's so freakin' easy.
By definition a super intelligence eclipses our conception of the universe. If you took the humans who had to try really hard at X, Y, or Z tasks, these X, Y, Z tasks would be peanuts to the AI, they would be so easy the AI doesn't even think about them. The same way ants try really hard and organize their entire colony to find point B and humans don't even think about finding point B.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoThere is Orthogonality Thesis [0] that says that (tl;dr) intelligence is orthogonal to goal system. So an agent may be very intelligent (be a powerful optimizer) but this doesn't imply it's goals will be "very good" by our (human) standard. You can have supersmart human-values-promoting AI, and then also a supersmart paperclip maximizer, just like you can have dumb versions of both. The core of the "danger of AI" thesis is that any superintelligence that doesn't have its value system perfectly aligned with ours is a serious danger that will likely kill us all. [0] - http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Orthogonality_thesis http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Orthogonality_thesis