I don’t know how that might occur to an AI independently. I mean, a human could program any of those, of course, as a literal answer, but that certainly doesn’t actually address kalla724′s overarching question, “What I’m looking for is a plausible mechanism by which an AI might spontaneously develop such abilities.”
I was primarily trying to focus on the specific question of “Absent a theory of mind, how would it(an AI) ever be able to manipulate humans?” to point out that for that particular question, we had several examples of a plausible how.
I don’t really have an answer for his series of questions as a whole, just for that particular one, and only under certain circumstances.
The problem is, while an AI with no theory of mind might be able to execute any given strategy on that list you came up with, it would not be able to understand why they worked, let alone which variations on them might be more effective.
I don’t know how that might occur to an AI independently. I mean, a human could program any of those, of course, as a literal answer, but that certainly doesn’t actually address kalla724′s overarching question, “What I’m looking for is a plausible mechanism by which an AI might spontaneously develop such abilities.”
I was primarily trying to focus on the specific question of “Absent a theory of mind, how would it(an AI) ever be able to manipulate humans?” to point out that for that particular question, we had several examples of a plausible how.
I don’t really have an answer for his series of questions as a whole, just for that particular one, and only under certain circumstances.
The problem is, while an AI with no theory of mind might be able to execute any given strategy on that list you came up with, it would not be able to understand why they worked, let alone which variations on them might be more effective.