Thinking of ourselves like chimpanzees while the AI is the humans is really not the right scale: computers operate so much faster than humans, we’d be more like plants than animals to them. When there are all of these “forests” of humans just standing around, one might as well chop them down and use the materials to build something more useful.
This is not exactly a new idea. Yudkowsky already likened the FOOM to setting off a bomb, but the slow-motion video was a new take.
Yes I did, in fact I was active in the comments section.
It’s a good argument and I was somewhat persuaded. However, there are some things to disagree with. For one thing, there is no reason to believe that early AGI actually will be faster or even as fast as humans on any of the tasks that AIs struggle with today. For example, almost all videos of novel robotics applications research are sped up, sometimes hundreds of times. If SayCan can’t deliver a wet sponge in less than a minute, why do we think that early AGI will be able to operate faster than us? (I was going to reply to that post with this objection, but other people beat me too it.)
Did you see the new one about Slow motion videos as AI risk intuition pumps?
Thinking of ourselves like chimpanzees while the AI is the humans is really not the right scale: computers operate so much faster than humans, we’d be more like plants than animals to them. When there are all of these “forests” of humans just standing around, one might as well chop them down and use the materials to build something more useful.
This is not exactly a new idea. Yudkowsky already likened the FOOM to setting off a bomb, but the slow-motion video was a new take.
Yes I did, in fact I was active in the comments section.
It’s a good argument and I was somewhat persuaded. However, there are some things to disagree with. For one thing, there is no reason to believe that early AGI actually will be faster or even as fast as humans on any of the tasks that AIs struggle with today. For example, almost all videos of novel robotics applications research are sped up, sometimes hundreds of times. If SayCan can’t deliver a wet sponge in less than a minute, why do we think that early AGI will be able to operate faster than us? (I was going to reply to that post with this objection, but other people beat me too it.)