[ExI] What might be enough for a friendly AI?.

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Sat Nov 20 20:14:46 UTC 2010


On 19 November 2010 18:42, Henrique Moraes Machado (CI)
<cetico.iconoclasta at gmail.com> wrote:
> <Dave Sill>
>>
>> I disagree. It's pretty easy to contain things if you're careful. A
>> moron could have locked Einstein in a jail cell and kept him there
>> indefinitely.
>
> </Dave Sill>
> Eintein perhaps, but what about an experienced con man?

Einstein would probably have been a very poor escapist, evader or
fugitive, irrespective of his IQ.

I suspect that the ability of an AGI to  "escape" might be
substantially lower than that of a more specialised programme with
equivalent computing power and bandwith at its disposal.

-- 
Stefano Vaj



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