On 9/10/2019 1:44 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 1:43 PM 'Brent Meeker' via
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/> Being sane, by human standards, includes having values that humans
share, like survival, curiosity, companionship...but there's no
reason
that an AI should have any of these/.
The builders of the AI will make sure it values survival because if it
didn't it wouldn't be around for long
Actually I think they would be careful NOT have it value its survival.
They would want to be able to shut it off. The problem is that there's
no way to be sure that survival isn't implicit in any other values you
give it.
and if it wasn't curious it wouldn't be very knowledgeable and
therefore be useful.
My point was that curiosity isn't necessarily directed to gaining human
like knowledge. A neuralnetwork has knowledge rather in the way human
intuition embodies knowledge. So it's useful in say predicting
hurricanes. But it doesn't provide us with a theory of predicting
hurricanes; it's more like an oracle.
But if a AI could modify it's personality and had free access to its
emotional control panel then who knows what would happen. Perhaps it
would twist the knob on the happiness and pleasure control to 11 and
just sit forever in complete bliss doing nothing like the ultimate
couch potato or a electronic junkie with a unlimited drug supply and
no chance of a fatal overdose.
Right. Or it might decide that it could satisfy its curiosity better if
all the world's resources were used to produce sensors and instruments
and space probes and telescopes .... and get rid of those hairless apes
who were wasting stuff.
Brent
/> Neural networks seem to be pretty good at finding patterns in
data, but often they don't
look like theories, something with predictive power, to us./
Well, they can predict the path of a hurricane pretty well, a lot
better than they could a few years ago, and they're starting to be
able to predict protein shape from amino acid sequence and that's
important because the function is closely related to its shape.
/> I don't see any reason the super-AI would care one whit about
humans, except maybe as curiosities...the way some people like
chihuahuas./
I agree, so it you can't beat them join them and upload.
John K Clark
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