Eric Baum wrote:
Eliezer> Eric Baum wrote:
(Why should producing a human-level AI be cheaper than decoding the
genome?)
Eliezer> Because the genome is encrypted even worse than natural
Eliezer> language.
(a) By decoding the genome, I meant merely finding the sequence
(should have been clear in context), which didn't involve any
decryption at all.
(b) why do you think so?
(a) Sorry, didn't pick up on that. Possibly, more money has already
been spent on failed AGI projects than on the human genome.
(b) Relative to an AI built by aliens, it's possible that the human
proteome annotated by the corresponding selection pressures (= the
decrypted genome), is easier to reverse-engineer than the causal graph
of human language. Human language, after all, takes place in the
context of a complicated human mind. But relative to humans, human
language is certainly a lot easier for us to understand than the human
proteome!
--
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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