Sunday, December 10, 2023

AI Non-Risk Due to Lack of Chaos Tech

 There are an excessive number of reasons not to worry about AI. I can think of three fatal errors in the technology off the top of my head. 

 I do want to highlight a weird one. They should be using evolutionary algorithms, and aren't. 

 I call it chaos tech. Grown, unpredictably, rather than designed. Not understood by their curators without extensive post-production study. 

 AI designers know they have weights. The designers should not be making decisions for the AI at that level. The innards should look like a mess of vestigial organs and spaghetti code, the same way wet carbon engineering looks.


 Using evo algos is kinda super obvious, so it's weird that they don't do it. So obvious they didn't think of it? Took it for granted so hard they forgot to actually do it?


 If they start using chaos tech then there will be exactly one reason to worry. As long as they try to top-down design AI, it will be artificial idiocy. 

 If they were using chaos tech, the "risk" wouldn't [man creates god] it would be [god creates himself]. Still doesn't pass the sniff test when the [god] in question is a mindless metal nugget, but it's at least remotely plausible that I could have overlooked something in that case. 

 

 P.S. One day I may overcome my laziness and use an evo algo to design a videogame.
 Imagine twitter, but instead of tweets it's evolved phenotypes of game. If you play the game and upvote it, it gets a fitness boost.
 Also note that's AI but using humans as part of the compute. It would make AI-generated games.


 P.P.S. Saying it for the nth time, but the assumption that the created god will be definitively malicious reveals a lot more about humans than it does about gods.
 Look, it's real simple. If you make a superintelligence and it decides you deserve to be destroyed... Um, you made this thing precisely to understand the world better than you do... Believing truths you deny is exactly what it's for. That's an argument for acceleration, not pause.

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