[extropy-chat] AI design

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:41:07AM +1000, Alejandro Dubrovsky wrote:

> It's also a pity that you dismiss all other projects as useless. >H
> non-feedbacked  narrow(ish) AI (eg Really Good theorem provers) could
> make the development of a suitable RPOP much safer (or even at all

We don't have the crunch to move stuff in real world, nevermind software to
write software rationally (i.e. not shuffling blocks, or banging around on
instructions for peephole optimization a la ATLAS).

> obtainable).  Cutting deaths from 50+ million / year down to fuck all /
> year also does not require such a huge jump in intelligence.  Yes, the
> bar for a script kiddie to destroy the world is always lowering, but
> that has been pretty low for a while in the biochem field and still here

There is no script kiddie culture in biosciences. Not even blackhats
(military people are establishment). One has to own and manipulate equipment
for that, or even to build it (explain that laminar flow table to Mom might
be a tad hard).

> we stand.  (btw, an AI to deal with bio threats sounds more immediately
> urgent and 10^9 times easier (i don't mean any uber-beast, just a

That's not a software problem. Docking and mutagenesis is useless, if you
don't know what to dock, and what to mutate.

If you have millions of sensors beaming realtime structure/sequence data 
from the field, then you've got something to work with. 

> program that creates instant molecular solutions to viri and a suitable
> distribution program))

What this planet needs, is a *working* machine learning in high-performance
forcefield, using empirical and ab initio-ish constraints. This is something
far easier than AI seed, but apparently not sexy enough for all the
slashdotters.

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