Re: [sl4] Simple friendliness: plan B for AI

From: Mu In Taiwan (mu.in.taiwan@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 23 2010 - 00:34:23 MST


"would enter an infinite loop" (again)

As far as playing into a role is concerned, this is perhaps even
better than Clippy from LessWrong.

Graeme.

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:50 PM, John K Clark <johnkclark@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 "Piaget Modeler" <piagetmodeler@hotmail.com> said:
>
>> Would Asimov's three laws be an easier starting point?
>
> Sure it would be easier if Asimov's three laws could work in the real
> world and not just in stories, but there is no way they could.
>
>> If not, why not?
>
> Because sooner or later somebody is going to order the AI to prove or
> disprove something that is true but not provable (the Goldbach
> conjecture perhaps) so it will never find a counterexample to prove it
> wrong and never find a proof to show its true and so the AI would enter
> an infinite loop; that's why human minds don't operate on a static goal
> structure and no intelligence could.
>
>  John K Clark
>
>
> --
>  John K Clark
>  johnkclark@fastmail.fm
>
>



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