From: Thomas McCabe (pphysics141@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 18 2007 - 16:01:44 MST
On Nov 17, 2007 5:46 PM, <sl4.20.pris@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> Building a friendly AI(FAI) from a "just do what I tell you" AI(OAI ==
> obedient AI).
>
> I know that OAI have been discussed recently in this forum but read on
> before you dismiss this.
> To avoid any possibility of dangers we program the OAI to not perform
> any actions other than answering with text and diagrams(other media
> like sound and video would be a possibility too). In essence what we
> would have is a glorified calculator. I think this avoids any dangers
> from the AI following orders literally with unintended consequences.
>
> So we go to the OAI and say: "Tell me how I can build a friendly AI in
> a manner that I can prove and understand that it will be friendly."
>
> The OAI will think and give you a detailed blueprint, proof, etc...
>
> You then analyse the documents until you understand them. You could
> also ask for further clarification from the OAI.
> Someone might raise the objection: how can you be sure that there
> aren't any backdoors or problems with the blueprints? This will also
> be a problem if you come up with your own way of making a FAI. The
> only answer is: you have to be very careful! The point of using an OAI
> is the same as for using a calculator: to make things easier.
>
> Then you build the FAI.
>
> Of course the real thing may be a bit more complicated for example:
> making the OAI first generate plans for a more intelligent OAI and so
> on. We could have several OAI enhancement steps until we finally are
> able to make a FAI.
>
> On a very basic level our current-date computers are OAIs.
>
> Comments?
>
> Roland.
>
The OAI analyzes your instruction, concludes that it would require a
lot of computing power to design an FAI, and then turns the planet
Earth into computronium before spitting out the design plans.
- Tom
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Jul 17 2013 - 04:01:00 MDT