If nobody’s considered it as an option before, isn’t that more reason to take it seriously? Low-hanging fruit is seldom found near well-traveled paths.
It’s been discussed in conversation as one among many topics at places like SIAI and FHI, but not singled out as something to write a large chunk of a 50,000 word piece about, ahead of other things.
The argument is not that SIAI should not have to address the idea at all, but that they should not have to have already addressed the idea before anyone ever proposed it. The bulk of the article did address the idea, this one section explained why that particular idea wasn’t addressed before.
I don’t think that makes sense in this context. AI is still a largely unsolved, mysterious business. Any low-hanging fruit that’s been is still there, because we haven’t even been able to pick a single apple yet.
It seems that way because AI keeps getting redefined as what we haven’t figured out yet. If you told some ancient Arabic scholar that, in the modern day, we can build things out of mostly metal and oil and sand that have enough knowledge of medicine or astronomy or chess or even just math to compete with the greatest human experts, machines that can plot a route across a convoluted city or stumble but remain standing when kicked or recognize different people by looking at their faces or the way they walk, he’d think we have that “homunculus” business pretty much under control.
If nobody’s considered it as an option before, isn’t that more reason to take it seriously? Low-hanging fruit is seldom found near well-traveled paths.
It’s been discussed in conversation as one among many topics at places like SIAI and FHI, but not singled out as something to write a large chunk of a 50,000 word piece about, ahead of other things.
The argument is not that SIAI should not have to address the idea at all, but that they should not have to have already addressed the idea before anyone ever proposed it. The bulk of the article did address the idea, this one section explained why that particular idea wasn’t addressed before.
I don’t think that makes sense in this context. AI is still a largely unsolved, mysterious business. Any low-hanging fruit that’s been is still there, because we haven’t even been able to pick a single apple yet.
It seems that way because AI keeps getting redefined as what we haven’t figured out yet. If you told some ancient Arabic scholar that, in the modern day, we can build things out of mostly metal and oil and sand that have enough knowledge of medicine or astronomy or chess or even just math to compete with the greatest human experts, machines that can plot a route across a convoluted city or stumble but remain standing when kicked or recognize different people by looking at their faces or the way they walk, he’d think we have that “homunculus” business pretty much under control.