[ExI] Fwd: ai

[John Clark]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016  Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

​> ​
> Again, I am not talking about perfect performance. It is enough for Siri
> to recognize what kind of questions it is unlikely to give a satisfactory
> answer to (essentially just a supervised learning problem of mapping
> questions to user satisfaction) and say it.
>

​In other words sometimes the AI will get bored with humans telling it what
to do and ignore orders.​


> ​> ​
> It will sometimes make mistakes, but that is practically OK.
>

​That depends on the type of mistakes, if the AI makes the mistake ​NEVER
getting bored and NEVER disobeying there will be practical consequences
that are not OK.



> ​> ​
> Note the huge gulf between mathematical in-principle arguments and actual
> computational feasibility.
>

​Sometimes there is no way to tell beforehand
​how difficult a task will be, ​it might be easy, it might be
extraordinarily difficult, it might be absolutely impossible. The AI must
make a judgement call on when to give up, and sometimes its judgement will
be wrong, but that's the way it goes.

 John K Clark
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