The future of AI?

[Alex K]

I've written Assembly. Have you ever trained an AI? My point was that controlling the "thoughts" of a complex AI is super complicated.

What you want to do is basically put a completely independent pattern recognition on top of the AI that stops the machine in crucial situations. That might work for scenarios with few degrees of freedom, but if I project a couple of decades into the future, with AI freely interacting with the world e.g. as mobile robots, you will have to know the intentions of the AI, a blunt pattern recognition as in "don't stab the human shaped thing" won't do.

I have never been trained in AI programming, though I had messed with some preliminary programming on my own back in the days of BBs.

I never insinuated that it would be easy, only doable, ergo the reason for starting now, after all, it is only a machine. Even if it became sentient, the watchdog timer would still override the system, which means that, technically, it would never have 'free will'.

For the machine to even function, let us say sweeping the floor, there has to be some pattern recognition to identify the floor, broom, walls, etc.. There then needs to be a subroutine for the action. Basic functions such as these do not even require AI per se. Where the AI would come in is the actual navigation of the room and the difficulties of sweeping in corners, under the table and such. Basically, I would think the AI itself would utilize various subroutines in all aspects of action. There is no reason to think that we would not know the 'thoughts' of the machine at anytime. It is a machine that, regardless of even sentience, is still only running a program.

Sure, even a complex neural net is "only a program", too, in the sense that a human is only a bunch of atoms interacting. But if it is learning, we do not simply understand afterwards how it does what it does. I still think what you propose only works in simple applications.