Idk, I don’t know what to say here. I meet lots of AI researchers, and the best ones seem to me to be quite thoughtful. I can say what would change my mind:
I take the exploration of unprincipled hacks as very weak evidence against my position, if it’s just in an academic paper. My guess is the researchers themselves would not advocate deploying their solution, or would say that it’s worth deploying but it’s an incremental improvement that doesn’t solve the full problem. And even if the researchers don’t say that, I suspect the companies actually deploying the systems would worry about it.
I would take the deployment of unprincipled hacks more seriously as evidence, but even there I would want to be convinced that shutting down the AI system was a better decision than deploying an unprincipled hack. (Because then I would have made the same decision in their shoes.)
Unprincipled hacks are in fact quite useful for the vast majority of problems; as a result it seems wrong to attribute irrationality to people because they use unprincipled hacks.
Idk, I don’t know what to say here. I meet lots of AI researchers, and the best ones seem to me to be quite thoughtful. I can say what would change my mind:
I take the exploration of unprincipled hacks as very weak evidence against my position, if it’s just in an academic paper. My guess is the researchers themselves would not advocate deploying their solution, or would say that it’s worth deploying but it’s an incremental improvement that doesn’t solve the full problem. And even if the researchers don’t say that, I suspect the companies actually deploying the systems would worry about it.
I would take the deployment of unprincipled hacks more seriously as evidence, but even there I would want to be convinced that shutting down the AI system was a better decision than deploying an unprincipled hack. (Because then I would have made the same decision in their shoes.)
Unprincipled hacks are in fact quite useful for the vast majority of problems; as a result it seems wrong to attribute irrationality to people because they use unprincipled hacks.