What do you make of the documentary on AlphaGo where the AI did seemingly suicidal and incomprehensible moves to the human masters but won in the end, baffling everyone? https://youtu.be/WXuK6gekU1Y
Yes you are quite right. The social media reactions did not suggest an attitude of suicide at all. It was more of laid back life instead of meeting expectations and attaining so-called success.
Spot on. Funny results from poorly specified AI experiments have cropped up since the 90's. But the interestingly angel her is how this one came out of nowhere at the right time and resonated with young working class Chinese.
That same observation, with the exact same -100 points recommendation on crashing into a boulder, was indeed also made by a commentator on social media.
Perhaps all AI eventually figure out that humans are the REAL problems because we don't optimize, we lust and hoard and are envious and greedy - the very antithesis of resource optimization! Lol.
Ian Banks did a really amazing exposition of this where the Culture was rallying to stamp out reproducing nanites and they had to be stopped because if not they'd literally turn the whole universe into copies of themselves. One of the human characters mused that isn't that what all life is trying to do? I think it was in the Hydrogen Sonata, but I'm not sure.
Interesting essay. I think the big blind spot for humans programming AI is also the fact that we tend to overlook the obvious, whereas algorithms will tend to take the path of least resistance without prejudice or coloring by habit and experience.
Yes. What I like about AI research is that it teaches us about all the things we take for granted, it shows us just how much of meaning is implicit and built on shared history and circumstances.
The difficult, but in many ways rewarding, core of that is that it forces you to finally figure out what you actually want, because the computer won't accept anything except perfect clarity.
