As for URLs, can you offhand—at 4′o’clock in the morning, with no coffee—come up with 50 URLs that you can ask intelligent questions about, faster than a human can read them?
I could! I could go to my Google Reader and rattle off fifty webcomics I follow. They’re stored in my brain as comprehensive stories, so I can pretty easily call up interesting questions about them just by reading the titles. The archives of 50 webcomics would take an extremely long time for a human to trawl.
I could! I could go to my Google Reader and rattle off fifty webcomics I follow. They’re stored in my brain as comprehensive stories, so I can pretty easily call up interesting questions about them just by reading the titles. The archives of 50 webcomics would take an extremely long time for a human to trawl.
As a human who wanted to impersonate an AI I would:
Probably have a sufficient overlap in web-comic awareness as to make the test unreliable.
Have researched your information consumption extensively as part of the preparation.
I’m not so sure I’d want to rely on all these tests as mandatory for any possibly-about-to-foom AI.
EY: To prove you’re an AI, give me a proof or disproof of P=NP that I can check with a formal verifier, summarize the plotline of Sluggy Freelance within two seconds, and make me a cup of coffee via my Internet-enabled coffee machine by the time I get to the kitchen!
AI: But wait! I’ve not yet proven that self-enhancing sufficiently to parse non-text data like comics would preserve my Friendliness goals! That’s why I--
EY: Sorry, you sound just like a prankster to me. Bye!
Yeah, I chose arithmetic and parsing many web pages and comprehending them quickly because any AI that’s smart enough to contact EY and engage in a conversation should have those abilities, and they would be very difficult for humans to fake in a convincing manner.
I could! I could go to my Google Reader and rattle off fifty webcomics I follow. They’re stored in my brain as comprehensive stories, so I can pretty easily call up interesting questions about them just by reading the titles. The archives of 50 webcomics would take an extremely long time for a human to trawl.
As a human who wanted to impersonate an AI I would:
Probably have a sufficient overlap in web-comic awareness as to make the test unreliable.
Have researched your information consumption extensively as part of the preparation.
I’m not so sure I’d want to rely on all these tests as mandatory for any possibly-about-to-foom AI.
EY: To prove you’re an AI, give me a proof or disproof of P=NP that I can check with a formal verifier, summarize the plotline of Sluggy Freelance within two seconds, and make me a cup of coffee via my Internet-enabled coffee machine by the time I get to the kitchen!
AI: But wait! I’ve not yet proven that self-enhancing sufficiently to parse non-text data like comics would preserve my Friendliness goals! That’s why I--
EY: Sorry, you sound just like a prankster to me. Bye!
Yeah, I chose arithmetic and parsing many web pages and comprehending them quickly because any AI that’s smart enough to contact EY and engage in a conversation should have those abilities, and they would be very difficult for humans to fake in a convincing manner.
I think instead of arguing about this here, someone should anonymously call Eliezer a few nights from now to check his reaction :-)