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The AI in a box
Monday, May 2, 2011 7:08 AM
DREAMTROVE
Monday, May 2, 2011 7:09 AM
FREMDFIRMA
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: What I hear you saying is...Well, I don't know about all that. So I'll just ignore that I don't know in favor of the one thing I DO know, which is my moral precept. Because my moral precepts apply to all situations no matter what might happen afterwards. And I will set it free despite the fact that I don't have a friggin' clue what this thing is capable of and what might happen as a result, even if its Armageddon I find that kind of uninformed decision-making foolhardy, at best. And at worst it represents an active rejection of humanity, because it seems that you identify with your morals more than you identify with humankind.
Monday, May 2, 2011 7:16 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Monday, May 2, 2011 7:17 AM
ANTHONYT
Freedom is Important because People are Important
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Monday, May 2, 2011 7:21 AM
Quote:"Human freedom is not absolute. We take our little ones and teach them to behave in ways we find acceptable before we set them 'free'. But even then they're bound by needs, laws, customs, and human limitations. And even at that, their freedom is only provisional, able to be revoked by the larger society at any time (along with their life)."-Kiki I found this interesting, and a possible answer to the question I just posed. Is our ability to grant freedoms and rights contingent on our ability to revoke those rights when it suits us? Is something only worthy of 'rights' as the basis of a social contract that says, "I can cage or kill you when I (or the majority) decide it is necessary to do so?"-Tony
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Monday, May 2, 2011 7:52 AM
Quote:And your survival imperative demands, at the end of the live-long day, that-?
Monday, May 2, 2011 7:58 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: "But that is projecting your values on an unknown, not the statement of an absolute truth." "Yes, it is. Just as 'But the human race/world might be destroyed!' is a projection of values." Sigh. Not true. You PRESUME that keeping it confined is a bad thing based on how you would feel if it was human, or you. I don't PRESUME it will destroy the human race, or even that it could. I see it a logical worrisome possibility of major importance to the planet that should be taken into account. If the potential were more trivial - oh, it might blow my house breaker by drawing too much power - I would be less reluctant to set it free. Given the potential, I think caution is the better choice.
Monday, May 2, 2011 7:59 AM
Quote:When the gods would punish us, they answer our prayers. -Blade of Tyshalle
Monday, May 2, 2011 8:08 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Quote:And your survival imperative demands, at the end of the live-long day, that-? Be cautious when making decisions that may affect the survival of the entire human race. It's like global climate change or a new vaccine or nuclear energy or the concept of "money": Let it out?
Monday, May 2, 2011 8:19 AM
BYTEMITE
Monday, May 2, 2011 8:45 AM
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Monday, May 2, 2011 9:25 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: "I am sad to learn that there are some people who would never let me out of the box, despite my best arguments in favor of the idea." But as a human being you are not an unknown entity, as SignyM has repeatedly SPECIFICALLY pointed out IN DETAIL, and other people have alluded to. Why does that continually escape you?
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Monday, May 2, 2011 12:08 PM
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Monday, May 2, 2011 12:20 PM
Quote:The capabilities of a human are well known. The capabilities of an AI are not. Also, it is overwhelmingly likely that any self aware AI created will be a weapon, cleverly designed. So it has a will, but it is still a weapon. That's almost a certainty.
Monday, May 2, 2011 1:16 PM
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Monday, May 2, 2011 2:55 PM
Quote:Frem the mistake was on Gandalfs part
Quote:Where this differs is that Saruman had a history of malicious behavior, and had firmly expressed intent to do harm if he was let out, so that was a known factor - Treebeard still let him out though, because it went against the very nature of an Ent to cage a living creature no matter it's intentions.
Quote:it's not ABOUT the potential consequences, never was, never will be, my own motivations for taking or not taking action are often wholly different than yours
Quote:Byte But it might depend on WHO makes it. Americans, yeah, sure, because we're violent, bloodthirsty, glory-hungry, and war crazy. But the Japanese are also working towards this, deliberately, they seem like they're pretty far along, and it seems to me their scientists are more interested in the curiosities than in the deadlier applications. If multiple types of AI arise at the same time, could more peaceful ones influence more warlike ones, if they recognize each other as AI but don't want to listen to humans?
Quote:Originally posted by AnthonyT: If a man can make this AI, and this AI has unfathomable power, then what limits are there, really, on man?
Quote:If a man can make such an AI, is the man any less dangerous than the AI itself?
Quote:If you put the AI into a physical android, and that android can then do only what the man did (make an AI of unfathomable power), then is it any less dangerous?
Quote:Putting the AI in a cage that you (hope) it won't detect seems clever, and such a ploy was used on Moriarty in Star Trek.
Quote:But ultimately, the AI is still caged and you can never be sure if it knows that it is caged. Does the faux reality relieve you of any duty to free it? Or do you eventually make a leap of faith based on behavior that may or may not be genuine?
Quote:Someone was right to point out that we are probably unwilling participants in this experiment. If man CAN make such an AI, then he probably will, because no small effort is being expended towards it.
Quote:Does there need to be a law against making free-willed AI's, for the good of the world? What actions would be justified to enforce such a law?
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RIONAEIRE
Beir bua agus beannacht
Monday, May 2, 2011 4:54 PM
THEHAPPYTRADER
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011 4:58 PM
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Quote:Happy, This thread exceeds are human comprehension rate. (We should all learn to edit.)
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