AI Prac Class
Task: (a) design and implement a smarter-than-human AI using only open source components; (b) ask it to write up your prac report.
Time allotted: 4 hours
Bonus points: disconnect your AI host from all communications devices; place your host in a Faraday cage; disable your AI’s morality module; find a way to shut down the AI without resorting to triggering the failsafe host self-destruct.
sophiesdad, since a human today could not design a modern microprocessor (without using the already-developed plethora of design tools) then your assertion that a human will never design a smarter-than-human machine is safe but uninformative. Humans use smart tools to make smarter tools. It’s only reasonable to predict that smarter-than-human machines will only be made by a collaboration of humans and existing smart machines.
Speculation on whether “smart enough to self improve” comes before or after the smart-as-a-human mark on some undefined 1-dimensional smartness scale is fruitless. By the look of what you seem to endorse by quoting your unnamed correspondent, your definition of “smart” makes comparison with human intelligence impossible.
Imagine the year 2100
AI Prac Class Task: (a) design and implement a smarter-than-human AI using only open source components; (b) ask it to write up your prac report. Time allotted: 4 hours Bonus points: disconnect your AI host from all communications devices; place your host in a Faraday cage; disable your AI’s morality module; find a way to shut down the AI without resorting to triggering the failsafe host self-destruct.
sophiesdad, since a human today could not design a modern microprocessor (without using the already-developed plethora of design tools) then your assertion that a human will never design a smarter-than-human machine is safe but uninformative. Humans use smart tools to make smarter tools. It’s only reasonable to predict that smarter-than-human machines will only be made by a collaboration of humans and existing smart machines.
Speculation on whether “smart enough to self improve” comes before or after the smart-as-a-human mark on some undefined 1-dimensional smartness scale is fruitless. By the look of what you seem to endorse by quoting your unnamed correspondent, your definition of “smart” makes comparison with human intelligence impossible.
Trivial. Once you’ve disabled your AI’s morality module, you’ve already shut it down.