Neither us humans, nor the flower, sees anything that looks like a bee. But when a bee looks at it, it sees another bee, and it is tricked into pollinating that flower. The flower did not know any of this, it’s petals randomly changed shape over millions of years, and eventually one of those random shapes started tricking bees and outperforming all of the other flowers.
Today’s AI already does this. If AI begins to approach human intelligence, there’s no limit to the number of ways things can go horribly wrong.
This is for ML researchers, I’d worry sigificantly about sending bizarre imagery to techxecutives or policymakers due to the absurdity heuristic being one of the most serious concerns.
Neither us humans, nor the flower, sees anything that looks like a bee. But when a bee looks at it, it sees another bee, and it is tricked into pollinating that flower. The flower did not know any of this, it’s petals randomly changed shape over millions of years, and eventually one of those random shapes started tricking bees and outperforming all of the other flowers.
Today’s AI already does this. If AI begins to approach human intelligence, there’s no limit to the number of ways things can go horribly wrong.
This is for ML researchers, I’d worry sigificantly about sending bizarre imagery to techxecutives or policymakers due to the absurdity heuristic being one of the most serious concerns.
Generally, nature and evolution are horrible.