If you take out the breathless narratives, I honestly can’t tell how an apathetic AGI that squashes us on the way to paperclip maximization is any different from Australian wildfires or an asteroid headed at us. Yes it could destroy us. No there’s nothing “intelligent” about it.
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What annoys me about “AI” understandings of statistical algorithms is that it obscures genuinely fascinating questions about computation. For example it appears any Universal Turing Machine (UTM) can recover the state of any other UTM given enough sample output and memory.
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This strikes me as more analogous to a heat engine locally reversing entropy than “intelligence”. But nobody studies things like gpt2 in such terms. Can we draw a Carnot cycle type diagram for it? What’s the efficiency possible?
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The tedious anthropocentric lens (technically the aspie-hedgehog-rationalist projective lens) stifles other creative perspectives because of the appeal of angels-on-a-pinhead bs thought experiments like simulationism. Heat engines, swarms, black holes, fluid flows...
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Most AI watchers recognize that the economy and complex bureaucratic orgs are also AIs in the same ontological sense as the silicon based ones, but we don’t see the same moral panic there. When in fact both have even gone through paperclip-maximizer type phases. Why?
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I’ll tell you why. Because they don’t lend themselves as easily to anthropomorphic projection or be recognizably deployed into contests like beating humans at Go. Markets beat humans at Go via prizes. Bureaucracies do it via medals and training.
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Intelligence is about taking something high entropy and making it low entropy in most respects. Like you said, if AI can achieve entropy reduction, it's by some metric intelligent. The bar most people would set is having a theory of mind, but that's poorly defined and far away
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Gaining better scientific understanding of the brain (one of the biggest scientific projects of the 21st century) is also going to take a huge bite out of this.
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