I think nobody knows how to write the code of a fundamentally submissive agent
Conventional non AI computers are already fundamentally passive. If you boot them up, they just sit there. What’s the problem. The word agent?
Why would something need to be able to follow orders to be useful? Most things in the world do not follow my orders (my furniture, companies that make all my products, most people I know). Like, imagine an AI assistant that’s really good at outputting emails from your inbox that make your company more profitable. You don’t know why it says what it says, but you have learned the empirical fact that as it hires people, fires people, changes their workloads, gives them assignments, that your profits go up a lot. I can’t really tell it what to do, but it sure is useful.
If an AI assistant is replacing a human assistant , it needs to be controllable to the same extent. You don’t expect or want to micromanage a human assistant, but you do expect to set broad parameters.
Sure, if it’s ‘replacing’, but my example isn’t one of replacement, it’s one where it’s useful in a different way to my other products, in a way that I personally suspect is easier to train/build than something that does ‘replacement’.
Conventional non AI computers are already fundamentally passive. If you boot them up, they just sit there. What’s the problem. The word agent?
If an AI assistant is replacing a human assistant , it needs to be controllable to the same extent. You don’t expect or want to micromanage a human assistant, but you do expect to set broad parameters.
Yes, the word agent.
Sure, if it’s ‘replacing’, but my example isn’t one of replacement, it’s one where it’s useful in a different way to my other products, in a way that I personally suspect is easier to train/build than something that does ‘replacement’.