(November 4, 2016 at 3:27 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(November 4, 2016 at 3:25 pm)Tiberius Wrote: So I'm in general agreement that Sam Harris doesn't really know what he's talking about when it comes to AI, as with a lot of subjects (he's spoken multiple times in favor of racial profiling).
Emphasis added.
Prove it.
Here's one of his blog posts: https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/in-d...-profiling
(November 4, 2016 at 3:30 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(November 4, 2016 at 3:25 pm)Tiberius Wrote: People seem to hear "AI" and think "robots". The two are completely different things.
Amusingly, yet another thing Harris took the time to point out in that video..that he was -not- discussing a robot takeover or robot enslavement - that this was a caricature of what he was referring to. He was, point of fact, discussing the sorts of things you just alluded in your assessment of one potential risk...and, to be fair, it;s difficult to see how we're being consistent with premise 2 if we lock it in a box and don't give it access to anything. At some point, to be useful, to improve it and make it useful, it would have to be set out upon the world, as it were...and ofc if we had AI we -would- do that...perhaps prematurely.
So it makes sense, before we have the ai, before some unknown glitch, or error..or even the proper operaion of the system, does something fantastically unexpected and deleterious. Thinking about things like, say, locking it in a box. The larger point the video we were discussing actually addresses is the inability of many to even seriously consider the risk - due to how undeniably cool the thing would be, and the inanity of thinking that...supposing it did pass ur test with flying colors, we'd be able to control a machine smarter than ourselves when it inevitably gets into the wild.
I understand he wasn't talking about robot takeover in the video. My point was a lot of people equate the two incorrectly.
In regards to your comment on letting AI out of the box, again it really depends on what AI we are talking about. Tesla's cars already have an AI that is out in the wild, but it's an AI that is tasked with one job: keeping your car in the correct lane on a highway. It's literally impossible for that AI to develop new functionality. The only "intelligence" it has is to interpret its sensors and react accordingly according to a set of rules which is has to follow.
This is the state of AI at the moment, and likely will be for a long time, maybe forever. AI is designed to do a specific job; it's not designed to do anything further than that job, and in many ways it can't.
