Hi,

Is it not how evolution is working ? By iteration and random modification,
new better organisms come to existence ?

Why AI could not use iterating evolution to make better and better AI ?

Also if *we build* a real AGI, isn't it the same thing ? Wouldn't we have
built a better, smarter version of us ? The AI surely would be able to
build another one and by iterating, a better one.

What's wrong with this ?

Quentin

Le ven. 12 juil. 2019 à 06:28, Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Sure, but that's not the "FOOM" scenario, in which an AI modifies its own
> source code, gets smarter, and with the increase in intelligence, is able
> to make yet more modifications to its own source code, and so on, until its
> intelligence far outstrips its previous capabilities before the recursive
> self-improvement began. It's hypothesized that such a process could take an
> astonishingly short amount of time, thus "FOOM". See
> https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/AI_takeoff#Hard_takeoff for more.
>
> My point was that the inherent limitation of a mind to understand itself
> completely, makes the FOOM scenario less likely. An AI would be forced to
> model its own cognitive apparatus in a necessarily incomplete way. It might
> still be possible to improve itself using these incomplete models, but
> there would always be some uncertainty.
>
> Another more minor objection is that the FOOM scenario also selects for
> AIs that become massively competent at self-improvement, but it's not clear
> whether this selected-for intelligence is merely a narrow competence, or
> translates generally to other domains of interest.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 2:56 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <
> everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> Advances in intelligence can just be gaining more factual knowledge,
>> knowing more mathematics, using faster algorithms, etc.  None of that is
>> barred by not being able to model oneself.
>>
>> Brent
>>
>> On 7/11/2019 11:41 AM, Terren Suydam wrote:
>> > Similarly, one can never completely understand one's own mind, for it
>> > would take a bigger mind than one has to do so. This, I believe, is
>> > the best argument against the runaway-intelligence scenarios in which
>> > sufficiently advanced AIs recursively improve their own code to
>> > achieve ever increasing advances in intelligence.
>> >
>> > Terren
>>
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