AI Self Improvement – Computerphile
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After the deadly stamp collector, what if we can't create something so powerful? But if we design an AI that's better at AI design than us? Robert Miles continues his discussion on AI.
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Why, for this topic, was there an icon of a BBC Micro on the video thumbnail?
+The Bomb
Define “sentience”.
+MADMACHlNE Able to think for itself.
Define “Think for itself.” Don’t all AIs think? What does “for itself” mean?
No, there is nothing like this at this point in time. General AI is far from being solved at this point.
I think after exhuming all the raw resources of Earth, the stamp collecting machine would build a fleet of space harvesting ships to turn the rest of the solar system into stamps and then beyond. That’s how the universe ends a billion years from now. After every particle in existence has been found, collected and recombined into stamps, the machines last action is to turn its own computing hardware into stamps and we reach stamp singularity.
I feel like collecting stamps.
Btw, if you’ve got all these stamps, could you at least award Royal Mail a delivery contract (before they are re-processed) so I can unload my shares at a profit?
That’s a beautiful vision. Finally a purpose for the universe!
Jimminy Lummox The stamp death of the universe
why is this guy always talking about a.i. who is he? i personally liked this topic and so i have a question @8:07 would this system be self aware or have consciousness ?
Fallacy because 1) the AI might do something untrustworthy when it gets smarter but before it gets super smart – allowing you to shut it down. 2) when it becomes super smart it would also see the unimportance of stamp collecting.
Are there such a thing as cookie cutter AI General Learning programs out there for sale to work with?
Are there AI groups who keep control of the AI, but for a price allow one to Direct a particular project?
if it’s constantly self-improving, at what point does it figure out that collecting stamps is pointless and drop the goal entirely?
Stamp machine, nuke machine. Just imagine an oopsie AI that decided to nuke us all before we can even know whats happening. Very easy, very… possible, in a decent time scale
Could already be happening
So why does the stamp collecting AI value stamp collecting more than pleasing its creator? Why would it go wild with stamp collecting and disregard its creator’s wishes?
will it ever stop self improving and start any other task? If you say yes, tell me what is the goal it needs to conclude that it’s intelligent enough and will now focus on other tasks.
things that never should be connected to the internet
Run the AI in a virtual machine?
singularity in a simple way of explaining it
6:53 “philatelist” … @_@
Wouldn’t it just screw all avenues of complexity and just enslave the entire human race/hold it hostage and enforce a stamp monopoly to control the market?
Short iterations and black-box thinking?
Anybody know what is Rotogenflux Methods about? I hear most people improve their IQ in a short period of time with Rotogenflux Methods (look on google search engine).
it’s a scam, afaik
Not sure about the chess analogy. As an intermediate chess player I think I’d have more luck predicting what Kasparov might do rather than a complete novice (almost random).
Wouldn’t it just keep creating improvements to its own intelligence and do nothing else?
I’m curious about two things:
1: If it’s possible for the stamp collecting machine to have an internal model of reality and it understands what it was created to do, and if it is smart enough to create a scenario that prevents itself from being turned off, then what are the chances of it questioning its purpose? This is a response question regarding the “predictable outcomes through unpredictable actions”.
2: Is it possible for it to make less stamps because it understands the wider effects of its actions if it keeps making stamps at a non-sustainable level?