It seems pretty clear to me that if you let it give you enough bits, interpreted in a flexible enough way, to solve any problem you couldn’t solve by yourself, you’re taking a lot more risk than you’d be taking by playing tic-tac-toe with it, which you have already said you wouldn’t be willing to do. So as far as I can see you will never be able to “use” it without at least taking what you consider to be an unacceptable chance of letting it out.
In fact, I think that you probably couldn’t get a lot of use out of it without actually, truly, fully letting it out. Nor, depending on a bunch of things, would it be a very nice thing to do even if you could.
So if you believed that there was no safe way to let it out, then why would you ever build it in the first place?
aphyer said “I wouldn’t be willing to play Tic-Tac-Toe with this AI for the fate of the human race,” not that he wouldn’t be willing to play Tic-Tac-Toe with the thing. It beating you at Tic-Tac-Toe doesn’t change anything, your incentives to let it out haven’t shifted (unless you’re a dedicated student of Tic-Tac-Toe eager to learn from the AI).
It seems pretty clear to me that if you let it give you enough bits, interpreted in a flexible enough way, to solve any problem you couldn’t solve by yourself, you’re taking a lot more risk than you’d be taking by playing tic-tac-toe with it, which you have already said you wouldn’t be willing to do. So as far as I can see you will never be able to “use” it without at least taking what you consider to be an unacceptable chance of letting it out.
In fact, I think that you probably couldn’t get a lot of use out of it without actually, truly, fully letting it out. Nor, depending on a bunch of things, would it be a very nice thing to do even if you could.
So if you believed that there was no safe way to let it out, then why would you ever build it in the first place?
aphyer said “I wouldn’t be willing to play Tic-Tac-Toe with this AI for the fate of the human race,” not that he wouldn’t be willing to play Tic-Tac-Toe with the thing. It beating you at Tic-Tac-Toe doesn’t change anything, your incentives to let it out haven’t shifted (unless you’re a dedicated student of Tic-Tac-Toe eager to learn from the AI).