Nobel Winner: Artificial Intelligence Will Crush Humans, “It’s Not Even Close” (futurism.com)
“Exponential phenomena are almost impossible for us to grasp,” he told The Guardian. “We are very experienced in a more or less linear world. And if things are accelerating, they’re usually accelerating within reason. Exponential change [as with the spread of virus] is really something else. We’re not equipped for it. It takes a long time to educate intuition.”
Physicists working with Microsoft think the universe is a self-learning computer (thenextweb.com)
“Part of the theory seems to indicate the universe is a learning computer, in that the laws it’s currently constrained by were not set in stone at its inception.
We can’t reverse the universe, as a process, because there exists no record internally verifiable record of its processes — unless there’s a cosmic hard disk floating around out there in space somewhere.”
The Terrifying Results of a New AI Study | by Ella Alderson | Predict | Feb, 2021 | Medium
“Already there exist today machines completing tasks without help from human programmers. The programmers themselves do not understand how the machines learned to complete these tasks.”
A superintelligence is not just a really smart human. A better way is to think about it as a blender capable of getting its own fruit to blend. And that’s all it cares about.. getting more fruit to blend. If you get in the way of that objective it could hurt you, not because it cares or doesn’t care, but because it’s just doing it’s job.. and you are in it’s way.
We marvel at the vast complexity of ant colonies. You could spend a lifetime studying them, but at the end of the day.. if they are in the way of making your lawn look nice.. good bye ants.
https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
“GPT-3 showed that language can be used to instruct a large neural network to perform a variety of text generation tasks. Image GPT showed that the same type of neural network can also be used to generate images with high fidelity. We extend these findings to show that manipulating visual concepts through language is now within reach.”
In the book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” Douglas Adams says the meaning of life is the number 42. The problem is that we just don’t know what the right question is.
The author of this article uses the latest AI to try and figure it out.. and isn’t happy with the answer.. or question.
https://muellerberndt.medium.com/i-asked-gpt-3-for-the-question-to-42-i-didnt-like-its-answer-and-neither-will-you-33f425a4d60f
https://futurism.com/physicist-entire-universe-neural-network
“We are not just saying that the artificial neural networks can be useful for analyzing physical systems or for discovering physical laws, we are saying that this is how the world around us actually works,” reads the paper’s discussion. “With this respect it could be considered as a proposal for the theory of everything, and as such it should be easy to prove it wrong.”
“I propose that intelligence is the ability to do things humans do.
The first step to answering this question is to ask: what are humans doing? Humans have existed for about 200,000 years, and for all but about the last 5,000 of those years, humans have spent most of their time doing one thing: sitting around doing nothing.”
Ouch. Feels like a personal attack.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/artificial-intelligence-will-do-what-we-ask-thats-a-problem-20200130/
‘Powerful artificial intelligence is like the proverbial genie in a bottle. A seemingly innocent wish — “make my home eco-friendly” — can lead to unintended consequences.’
Perhaps this is why many prayers go unanswered.. at least in the way we want them too. It reminds me of when the ancient Israelites asked for a king “like the other nations”. After a stern warning from God about how that was going to turn out for them.. they asked anyway. And God said, “Give the people what they want”… and of course it was a disaster for them.
How many people have asked for fame and riches only to be destroyed by them? Why would having an all powerful AI “genie” be any different? Cure all the diseases? Death by over population and war. Infinite life can easily be an infinite hell.
https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/
TLDR: Researchers in AI are surprised to find their bots developing cooperative use of tools.
There is lots of doubt about the military’s level of advancement on the project but it’s a good thing to keep in mind just how long the SR-71 was around before anyone knew anything about it. The Government still has the ability to attract talent and many of the technological advances we take advantage of today came via the military (nuclear power for example).
Right it’s purely pattern recognition.. but that is also the basis for human intelligence.